Keyblade Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 5 hours ago, villa4europe said: Not a chance That's a really simple header It's not really simple. Olsen is charging at him. If he were stationary at the edge of his box, sure...but it looks like they're on a collision course. If he makes the header, there's every chance it loops over Olsen and then it's a hairy situation. Carlos properly assessed the situation and his panic was warranted imo. His fault in this was that he made the wrong decision. Should have kicked it into touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Keyblade Posted April 28 Popular Post Share Posted April 28 I think Olsen's biggest flaw isn't any one attribute that he possesses (or doesn't), it's the lack of confidence and panic he inspires in his backline. That has a huge domino effect on the team's performance usually. We don't concede 2 goals per game when he's there because he's bad with his feet or doesn't claim crosses, it's largely because the defence is in relative disarray when he plays. Hell, I have my heart in my mouth whenever the ball is near him and I'm not even playing! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grobs Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 43 minutes ago, Keyblade said: I think Olsen's biggest flaw isn't any one attribute that he possesses (or doesn't), it's the lack of confidence and panic he inspires in his backline. That has a huge domino effect on the team's performance usually. We don't concede 2 goals per game when he's there because he's bad with his feet or doesn't claim crosses, it's largely because the defence is in relative disarray when he plays. Hell, I have my heart in my mouth whenever the ball is near him and I'm not even playing! It’s not Olsen that puts that in the back line. It’s the fans. As soon as it went 2-1 last night it was so nervy and no question all of the team felt that. Olsen got us the point in the end with that save from Palmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 39 minutes ago, grobs said: It’s not Olsen that puts that in the back line. It’s the fans. As soon as it went 2-1 last night it was so nervy and no question all of the team felt that. Olsen got us the point in the end with that save from Palmer Ah yeah he made the save, but he did also cause that situation to allow Palmer to be in that position. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Played well I thought, Martinez is just so damn good it’s a huge step down. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 If he doesn't chuck one in he played well, that's the standards he sets and what he gets away with now. Every little decision he makes has a negative on the team, the passes he chooses, the weight of them, the timing of his release, the decisions to come for balls, his starting positions, everytime he's in nets the whole thing falls apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May-Z Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Completely changed how we play. We had to go long from all our goal kicks because he lacks confidence with his feet. Combine that with Ollie not being able to hold up a thing all night and it meant we could never get out of our half. Put Martinez in goal with his calm play form the back and that second half performance is much different. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinebro Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 3 hours ago, Keyblade said: I think Olsen's biggest flaw isn't any one attribute that he possesses (or doesn't), it's the lack of confidence and panic he inspires in his backline. That has a huge domino effect on the team's performance usually. We don't concede 2 goals per game when he's there because he's bad with his feet or doesn't claim crosses, it's largely because the defence is in relative disarray when he plays. Hell, I have my heart in my mouth whenever the ball is near him and I'm not even playing! I don't think Diego would have done the things he did if Emi is playing. Emi is bringing a calmness to the entire backline just by his presence alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisvilla4 Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 One man doesn't make a team, if Emi is out then others have to stand up and be counted. I thought Olsen did well and shouldn't carry the can. Obviously he's going to be under immense pressure when the ball just keeps coming back, what were the other 10 players doing. If you've no confidence in him, do what you can to keep the ball away from him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 10 minutes ago, chrisvilla4 said: One man doesn't make a team, if Emi is out then others have to stand up and be counted. I thought Olsen did well and shouldn't carry the can. Obviously he's going to be under immense pressure when the ball just keeps coming back, what were the other 10 players doing. If you've no confidence in him, do what you can to keep the ball away from him. I agree, the pressure on him when he does come into the team must be ten times that of when the other squad players are bought on, I don't think he did bad yesterday but unfortunately when you are standing in for the worlds no.1 every little thing you, or those around you do, is going to be scrutinized. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 I think you can say Olsen did ok and not blame him for the result but still think we had a much better chance of holding on if Emi stayed on the pitch. It’s not shitting on Olsen. It’s just acknowledging that Emi is the best in the world and has saved us many times when the team isn’t playing well. No number 2 will come in and fill the void left when Emi is out so the team needs to learn to deal with it a lot better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted April 28 VT Supporter Share Posted April 28 Olsen did OK, made some saves and claimed some high balls into the box. His kicking is OK, quite accurate tbh. What he needs to get experience in is the short balls around the box, Martinez is great at it, now he's gained experience. Olsen needs game time to learn that and to have the confidence to do it. No one is going to be as good as Martinez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Could just give Gauci a run out at Brighton? We concede so many goals with Olsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DakotaVilla Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 1 hour ago, May-Z said: Completely changed how we play. We had to go long from all our goal kicks because he lacks confidence with his feet. Combine that with Ollie not being able to hold up a thing all night and it meant we could never get out of our half. Put Martinez in goal with his calm play form the back and that second half performance is much different. Even though we did absolutely none of that in the first half? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DakotaVilla Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Olsen did well. First goal was fully on Luiz (who was useless), the second goal was a brilliant finish but complete lack of pressure on Gallagher. He saved an absolute certain goal from Palmer and did well on crosses. I don’t know what else people expect from a number 2. Without him we would have lost. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May-Z Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 3 minutes ago, DakotaVilla said: Even though we did absolutely none of that in the first half? The first half wasn't good, but we didn't turn the ball over as quickly as we did in the second half. It was relentless and eventually we cracked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made In Aston Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Are we really blaming Olsen for a poor second half performance by the team?! VT really does love a scapegoat! I thought he did ok and won us a point with the save he made from Palmer. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May-Z Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 11 minutes ago, Made In Aston said: Are we really blaming Olsen for a poor second half performance by the team?! VT really does love a scapegoat! I thought he did ok and won us a point with the save he made from Palmer. I don't think there's any blame going around. From my point of view I just observed that we played differently from the back with Olsen than we did with Martinez and the team didn't adjust well to that as a group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 28 VT Supporter Share Posted April 28 8 hours ago, Pongo Waring said: Match winning save against Palmer From a situation he created Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made In Aston Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Just now, Stevo985 said: From a situation he created Had a lot more to do with Carlos losing his mind for a moment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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