Ipswich play with excellent intensity

If you compare us and them, I’d say that’s the main difference, although there are many others.

We are so passive in comparison, we play in front of the opposition too much, particularly with Gibson and Hanley at the back and without Nunez in midfield.

I think there are two methods for success in the championship:

1) be miles ahead technically - only really works with a midfield magician like buendia or dewsbury hall; or

2) play with pace, power and intensity - if you don’t have that massive technical advantage, you need to be able to overwhelm the opposition with something else.

We seem to tend towards 1) when we don’t really have the players for it. We should be aiming for 2), but at the moment we’re sitting in the middle. Recently our intensity at home has been much better, but it slipped v Sunderland and i didn’t like what I saw after we went ahead last night. For me it comes down to finding the right combo of centre backs and cm’s, and Gibson + Hanley and McLean + Sara isn’t it.

Posted By: SimonOTBC on March 7th 2024 at 09:40:29

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Three points Saturday and Leicester doing a job on Hull please (NCFC) - MonkeyPuzzle, Mar 7, 09:06:26
- If we beat Rotherham it will be 3 games in a week at 2 PPG (NCFC) - usacanary, Mar 7, 14:48:09
  - If only we could play 67% of our games at home (NCFC) - SCC 28, Mar 7, 16:41:41
  - Saturday surely has to be a must win. They are essentially already down (NCFC) - MonkeyPuzzle, Mar 7, 16:13:33
- Not sure why everyone is so pissed off about last night... (NCFC) - Brom, Mar 7, 09:19:40
  - Unless you are Ipswich. They don't seem to get those sorts of games (NCFC) - Jim, Mar 7, 09:31:11
    - Ipswich play with excellent intensity (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Mar 7, 09:40:29
      - I've said all season their weakness is defending so they play on front foot to combat that (NCFC) - Gazzaman, Mar 7, 12:01:22
        
        Vmt - weren’t we like that under lambert? (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Mar 7, 13:47:30
      - they are a superbly coached side. much greater than the sum of their parts (n/m) (NCFC) - fal5taff, Mar 7, 10:55:16
      - I agree also about after we went ahead last night (NCFC) - Jim, Mar 7, 09:45:40
        
        It must be instructions from the bench (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Mar 7, 09:51:47
        
        Completely agree. We cannot play at low intensity as we have too many errors in us (NCFC) - Jim, Mar 7, 09:56:58
      - I agree that’s why I said they’d do better with ten men (NCFC) - Jim, Mar 7, 09:42:52
        
        They feel that they do (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Mar 7, 09:47:24
  - It's that run plus our away form generally (NCFC) - jamesward, Mar 7, 09:20:49
    - With the 2nd worst away defence (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Mar 7, 09:22:44
      - Yep, so if we do sneak into the play off another away game to get through before a big (NCFC) - BSE Canary, Mar 7, 09:27:56
- We should probably get into the top 6 (NCFC) - SCC 28, Mar 7, 09:16:17
  - In fact neither Hull or Coventry are playing in week 38 (NCFC) - SCC 28, Mar 7, 09:38:31
  - Fairly high chance we lose all three of those away games (n/m) (NCFC) - jamesward, Mar 7, 09:29:33

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