The free headers

Having watched the highlights now the circumstances for both of their free headers were pretty much the same. In both cases a midfielder/forward runs beyond Tettey. Loose gets drawn away from his man towards the runner and ends up marking neither, the cross goes over his head and is headed by the man he was marking previously who is unmarked. Meanwhile beyond him Brady is marking nobody.

It seems to me that Tettey should track the man better, Klose shouldn't get drawn away from his man but when he does Brady should be stepping in to take the man at the far post. Instead they all just end up marking nobody and there is a lack of understanding and nobody taking responsibility.

I don't know whose fault this ultimately is, probably shared between the players and the coaching staff but I feel like it's been a consistent shortcoming throughout the season and has still not been fully addressed even though results and performances are starting to generally pick up.

Posted By: Jim, Jan 29, 18:43:01