A preventable goal…
Nottingham Forest (in the bright yellow) took an early lead against Sheffield United (red and white stripes) with this goal, watch the clip and think how could the defending team have prevented this goal? Scroll down after you’ve had a think…
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What did you think? Here are my thoughts… as the ball is crossed the Sheffield United number 23 slips, leaving 2 Forest players free to eventually score. This is unfortunate but accidental things like this can happen, the chance could have been prevented much earlier in the play. Watch from the very start of the clip, the Sheffield United number 4 dives into a tackle, this allows the Forest player to ‘chop’ past them, before playing a lobbed through ball over the defence for the forward to chase. The Forest forward timed their run well to stay onside. Now watch the Sheffield United number 6 who is marking the Forest player who is running towards the by line, they’re more focused on pushing the player than what is happening with the ball. They end up pushing the Forest player but don’t block the ball. Had they not close as close and focused on getting them self between the ball and the goal they would have probably blocked the ball and conceded a corner instead.
Tags: Goal, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United, The Chop