Fair play to Sheffield Utd, played some really good stuff and you can see why they're around the play offs, as a neutral I would have been loving their CB play and how they got forward themselves, used the wing back system to great use. As others say Fleck cost them that.
The teams at the top of the championship this season have been exceptional, someone stuck a graph on our forum that a game or two ago we were on a points per game average that would normally win the league while sat in 4th and we'd be 10 points over the average (last 5 seasons) to reach the play...
You put two strikers up by our centre backs who were around the corners of the box, we should have brought the full backs back as well and had 4 options to play out to, if Preston put a couple more forward to stop us then playing long leaves less Preston players and start having more chance of...
The high press did stop our ability to play out from the back, but in his interview after the team plan was supposed to be as normal and not route one. 11 professionals should be able to see when its not working going long every time given they seem to be the ones who decided to play that way.
Extra body in the middle to match Preston up, also so that we couldn't just lump aimless long balls forward to him and try to encourage us to play. Good thing he did bring Eliasson on he looked lively when he came on and beat his man a number of times. Leko hasn't been to standard in his recent...
Epitome of a shithouse performance from Preston, that's them and Burton both to have come and done it, the frustrating part is the referees allowing it. The ref tonight was telling players to hurry up and stop time wasting after 20 minutes but never produced a card to stop it and bought...