Wolves Internationals

[Deutsch Wolf]

Stephen Kelly highly critical of Doc not tracking back for Greece's second goal last night

RTE pundit slams Ireland star for 'awful' defending in Greek defeat

'This is awful. This is awful. Matt Doherty is tracking his runner and he just stops,' said Stephen Kelly on RTE

www.irishmirror.ie

Him and Collins, both bloody awful

https://twitter.com/x/status/1833679124897955958

 

[Jinky]

Him and Collins, both bloody awful

https://twitter.com/x/status/1833679124897955958

Really, really poor from Doc & you can see what Kelly is on about. If he'd have got out of 1st gear he'd have been able to easily get back and get a toe in to kick the ball out of play. The lazy, lazy wanker.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

You can see on the still on the thumbnail - he starts goalside of Tzolis. How far behind does he end up!

 

[1986]

It's easy give out about Collins in that clip , but he got no help from Doherty who should have sensed the danger and reacted .

It's only really in the last 12 months over here that the pundits have turned on Doherty . Prior to that he was consistently getting something of a free pass , and often tended to end up in a more forward role with others covering for him .
Not any more Matt , not any more . His effort to track back was inexcusable , he was fresh having coming on as a sub , Collins had been on the pitch for 87 minutes at that points and tried his best to rectify the situation .

We played a high pressing game for all of the first half , and it worked very well to be fair , but you only need to be caught once to undo all that good work .