Damien Delaney
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3,691 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 14 Sep
Damien Delaney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You still want to pick a team that speaks to the players to say, OK, we're going to be defensively strong, but these Czech lads don't bother us.
They're there for the taking as well.
We can get at them.
They're not as great as, you know, if we're playing Portugal, it's difficult.
But you want to go there with a mentality of like, we're going there to win.
And, you know, when we get a chance to counterattack, when we get a chance to lay siege to their 18-yard box, we need to take it.
So ultimately, they could mirror each other insofar as they're both three at the back.
But there could be a 3-4-3 and there could be different variations with their wide players tucked inside.
Ours could end up being a 5-4-1.
So very rarely do you get them in the exact same and the board implemented the exact same way.
But if they are, then it just becomes personal battles.
Who can come out on top?
If you've got 3v3 in the middle of the park, it's which three can come out on top.
you know, which three can get on the ball a little bit more.
I always feel that like possession is nine tenths of the laws and whoever gets hold of the ball obviously has a bigger say in it in so far as they can push forward.
You got to remember they're at home as well.
There's a lot of variables in that.
I think it's difficult with him.
wouldn't necessarily as you said go back and watch the Czech games but you'd go back and watch his Sparta Prague games you know and see what way he set those up and then you're trying to marry up okay so these players at his disposal at his club level and he played this way has he got similar players do we think he's going to go this way you know ultimately with us playing that system of you know a flat back five and probably four across the middle and one up front doesn't really matter what they do we're just going to
suck it up what you're looking for is the weaknesses on the turnover you're looking for like okay so if they do play three at the back and the wing backs are high and wide a little bit like Fragman said let's say they greased it you know like where they took the wide players inside the full backs provide the width you know when we turn the ball over you know you want to tell Troy Parrott can you tend to pick up these areas on the halfway line because as centre backs we want to know where he is so if I'm under pressure and my head's down I can't get a look I need to know in my mind's eye
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