Greg Taylor

Yeah this is the long and short of it. I'd hope (naively after what we have seen of them) that the others would cover that space, but that's the predicament that Taylor was in, could he trust them to cover, specially Bernardo - no he couldn't. I'll leave it from my view of, could have done better - but he isn't the fault for that goal.

I actually enjoyed it, first time in a long time I think a few of us have actually broke a goal down and gave (I reckon) valid points from various sides and didn't just do the "* sake X player" cry
That said, I aint planning to break down a goal that much any time soon again

 

As a rotation (ie. better than simply backup) to KT I'd be more than happy to have GT stick around.

 

I don’t think Taylor and Maeda on the same wing works. There was multiple times yesterday we worked decent patterns on the right to find someone in the middle and they would look up to see both Maeda and Taylor had come in to the middle and the full left flank wide open for a simple feed out to get to the byline and cross.

As poor as Kuhn was I would have liked to see us try stick him out on the left for 10 minutes and see if he could have got at Jensen and been crossing in with his stronger left foot from the byline. It would have been something to change it up a bit.

Although I find our current squad in disastrous shape as discussed in the transfer window thread. I saw someone say they had heard we had put 10 up for sale that wouldn’t surprise me as you could easily move on

- Nawrocki
- Lagerbielke
- Welsh
- Trusty
- Kwon
- Holm
- Palma
- Tilio
- Yang
- there will be one I have forgot

Add in that Taylor could walk for three and there is meant to be interest in CCV, Maeda, Engels, Hatate and Kuhn.

 

I have degrees in football tactics and economics from the University of YouTube and another in geopolitics from the University of Twitter. I'm definitely not spouting nonsense about things I don't understand.

 

Based on what happened literally seconds later, I’d say the cross into the box.

 

This is a BR thing that does my nut in and is a real trend in England. Stand off the cross, hands behind back, allow it. Just * stop the cross man.

 

There’s not a hope in * BR or any other top manager is saying to their full backs to allow the cross.

There’s more emphasis on defending the box and not getting sucked out to the ball but that applies to central players mainly.

Greg Taylor has to be more aggressive in trying to stop that cross - he stands pointing at the winger like a * daft * even though he’s in the best position to press him, then sticks a lazy leg out. He had a decent game aside from that but it was poor defending.

 

This makes sense if only if you ignore Taylor having to worry about the runner in behind.

 

Somebody else gives the ball away.
Somebody else doesn't track their man into the box.
Somebody else throws the ball into our net.
"Taylor has to stop the cross".

Typical GT thread.

 

By the way, just because he inverts, doesn't mean he's a centre mid..

I dont care if he was in his academy days or 5's in training, this wee pet project late in games has to stop..

 

Kasper Schmeichel has * punted it into the goal.

I genuinely cannot believe that there is * picture frames of the passage of play that built up to that goal. Crosses come into a box, it’s * football. Anyone even attempting to put one iota of blame onto Taylor clearly has an agenda. Bernardo passes it to a * Aberdeen player while we are breaking, players are caught out of position defensively then.

Genuinely, no wonder he wants to leave.

 

It is literally that. Actually, you can even add an extra line:

Bernardo gives the ball away.
Yang doesn't close the winger down.
The midfield don't don't track 2(!) Aberdeen players into the box.
Schmeichel throws the ball into our net.

"Taylor has to stop the cross".

It's laughable really.

 

Agreed. Makes it even more bizarre that Rodgers moved Schlupp to left back, given he has actually played in centre mid for Crystal Palace multiple times.

 

We need to sign more players that are better than him at CM to allow that. His spell there was better than Bernardo, Engels and McCowan.

 

I agree with most of this, but I'm going to quibble a little. Forrest actually does really well in this situation and buys the midfield plenty of time to get into position. They don't really have an excuse.

 

Greg taylors worst thing is being Greg. He gets blamed for keepers scoring own goals now

 

Rodgers talks about pace and power. Be great to see some players actually fitting that description in the team. MF is number one priority for me this summer. Especially wi qualifiers again.

 

Mate, I actually Dinnae care. Schmeichel has punted it into his own goal.

People are attempting mad mental gymnastics to try and find a scenario to blame Taylor. Ken what, Bernardo gives the ball away. I don’t like Bernardo, I think he’s * but even he isn’t to blame for conceding that goal. Schmeichel punts it into the back of the goal. That’s the only * picture that needs to be shown.

 

Was the same against St Mirren..

It shouldn't be difficult..

 

I don't think it's that, mate. Taylor actually starts to go out to close the winger down before he realises he can't because of the Aberdeen player unmarked in our box. It's really clear if you watch it back.

I think it's about percentages. We definitely do want to stop crosses, but it's not as high up the list of priorities as it might have been 10 or 20 years ago. I know we seem to lose a lot of our goals from crosses, but it's all about statistics and the goals you don't see because they didn't happen. It's kind of the inverse of the debate about building from the back.

I'll be honest, it will be very hard to persuade me that a cross into the box is statistically more dangerous than a pass to a striker unmarked in the box with a 4v3 situation to exploit there. If Taylor had continued out to the winger and the winger had passed to the 28 unmarked in our box, I'd have been raging at him (Taylor) and saying he needed to be more aware. And the thing is, I think half the forum would have too TBH.