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Can't fault the work rate tonight at all. I would like to see their goal again but did zonal marking create the space for their centre half? Despite their pressure we struggled again to manage the last 20 minutes but any away point is good and we are still second.
Their goal seemed to come about because as we were sitting so deep, they decided to push up their big defender Tosun (who is 6ft 5 according to wiki) and he outjumped Christie - who is obviously considerably smaller than Tosun!
At the time we had vitually every man behind the ball in a line and Cook appeared to be man marking Mitrovic. So why wasn't one of our taller players marking their tall central defender?
I personally don't agree with defending deep to try protect a lead in the way we have been doing but if you are going to do that then surely the very tall opposing players need to be man marked and matched up height wise? A huge tactial error not to do so IMHO.
Hindsight is obviously a wonderful thing but surely this is not rocket science?
Perhaps it might have been better to put Mepham on as soon as it appears to have been decided to move the defensive line back 10 yards to protect the lead? - especially as they were continually getting at us down the flanks, putting in crosses and winning corners?