Evening/morning all. Theres been a lack of chitchat about the forthcoming fixture, so here's my view to see if we can get something going on here!
For me it's one of those 'banana skin' style games. Everyone expects us to win, a lot of us are already looking forward to the upcoming away games as if we already have the 3 points under our belt. I believe that these are the sort of games that are potentially really difficult to win, where we have to launch wave after wave of attack and stay patient. There will be a load of crap that comes to the Valley, but we cannot take brushing them aside for granted. After all, a victory would let Leeds and our rivals know that we won't disappear after a couple of draws, but anything other than a win could look as if 'chinks' in our team are appearing?
It's just a thought, and how do we see it going? I think we should win as i think the'r gaffer will have them try and play football. If they do, then we should win quite easily, but if they set their stall out i can see it being a very frustrating afternoon at times.
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They generally play a neat passing game and will give us tough opposition.
So not to be underestimated.
Fleets won't be playing tomorrow, though.
I think if teams came to our place with a more positive attitude and actually expect to win, they will create chances and have a much better chance of getting something. In saying that, whatever Exeter's gameplan tomorrow, I think we'll have too much quality and should win 2 or 3-0.
what worries me is that the players might begin to believe(their own press) that they only just have to turn up to roll over these sides but hopefully parky can get us firing on all cylinders tomorrow and remove this banana skin form our path
patience is the key and i'd like to think if we have any chance of going up we should definitely be beating sides like exeter
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That said I believe that Parky will get the team up for this one.
Teams know that if they attack us we have the quality to hit them on the break and/or just pass around them.
We have also been scoring from corners and free kicks. Just need to start putting the direct free kicks in.
We should have beated Soton but for a bad offside decision and we are the second top scorers.
Respect Exeter but we are at home and should be going for it.
however, if they are really bringing 2,000 then his crowd prediction of less than 15,000 on the other thread will look a bit silly
However PP says this every week and every week it is the same side.
If they are fit then play them. Don't believe in changing a winning side just for the sake of it.
Predictions based purely on guesswork can sometimes be well wide of the mark.
It's not good news ...... even if most or all do play, they can't perform to maximum - particularly as we've seen with Bailey recently, and Richardson done for pace because of his groin injury.
Sam offers our main penetration - he's pretty vital to our attacking game, so we need him sharp and pacy.
Semedo we just need to be there doing what Semedo does best.
So none of these lads, if they do play tomorrow, will be 100% fit and sharp.
At the least I am thinking tomorrow represents a chance to try 442 with McLeod, with Bailey on the bench in case needed.
If Sam isn't 100% fit then give Wagstaff the last half hour.
Agreed, Salad. There comes a point when a player just needs to be rested to allow time for the injury to heal naturally.
Otherwise the price is often paid later in the season and he can be missing for a whole raft of matches.
Exeter play a quick breaking 4-5-1, so Parky might prefer to stick with his 4-4-1-1 so we're not too undermanned in midfield. Both Semedo and Racon (tight hamstring) have not been 100% in recent matches - they would need to be top of their game and fit to play in a conventional 4-4-2.
They also lost 3-0 at Gillingham so we can cause them plenty of problems!
To be honest this shouldbe a good game as they too play fluid passing football and this could be a cracker!
I think we'll be too strong though and I think a nice 3-1 win with a friendly flavour to the game
Saints played 4-5-1, and in the first half we definitely struggled. However we got into our groove second half so I'm not too worried about Exeter matching our formation if we take what we learned from that game into this one.
It's also ideal to defend a lead.
The problem is when you're a goal or 2 down, you can lack the penetration to get through a compact defence sitting on a lead - and vulnerable on the break with too many players caught upfield.
As happened to Exeter at Gillingham.