#tactical-issues

#tactical-issues

They played much better, but we have to manage it much better, even because we know we were 2-0 up, and we just need to win this game, Soucek said. We have to go for counter-attacks again as to score a third goal would be important, but we can't concede three goals, because it's sometimes too easy. That's the mentality we should have [to score a third goal], because the best defence is to attack, so that's what we want, but sometimes when we are winning we go too much to defence, and then they create the chances and we didn't manage that.

Forensic analysis in every waking hour. And for the St Mirren manager, suddenly, hope. A little over a week ago, as Martin O'Neill, the great redeemer, exited the club in a fanfare of gratitude and optimism, Robinson would have to face a team content in its own skin again. What he must see now is something altogether different. He's got to be seeing weakness and a chance. Everybody else can see it.

After defeat to Galatasaray, Arne Slot insisted his side are not so far off the level of last season, but on the evidence of the 10 games so far this campaign that is far from the reality. The Turkish side scored via a rather soft penalty, but they created further chances in a very similar fashion to how Crystal Palace had sliced open the Merseysiders in their 2-1 win four days earlier.