BOSS REVEALS POMPEY SELECTION STRATEGY
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What is the latest update on Pompey team selections?
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John Massimio has announced that he intends to use Conor Shocknessy for Leicester and Ipswich in the same way that he was used in Pompey's two previous games. The game time for the towering centre-half is being rationed in an attempt to prevent any recurrence of the injuries that have dogged him so far in his Pompey career. The dilemma facing the Pompey head coach is whether to start shocknessy and rest him after 60 or 70 minutes, or to start him on the bench on a something of an impact sub, capable of affecting the game at the back, but also bringing much-needed aerial power to Pompey's attacking corners.
It's another tricky one at the back, isn't it, for the Pompey boss? And he's had so many tricky ones with who to play at the back this season, as last season, actually. Connor Ogilvie, of course, is out for three games.
How is Conor Shaughnessy's injury affecting team strategy?
Zach Swanson is still injured. So luckily, Williams had a really good game when he came on after 17 minutes when Ogilvie got his card. So that particular dilemma is probably solved. But they're rationing Conor Shaughnessy, quite rightly, because he's such an important figure to have, not only at the back, but, and I think this is almost as important as his contributions to defence. When he comes forward... for a corner or for a free kick or a long throw from Marlon Pack. We do seem to be winning more balls that we can allow us to employ the long throw during the last 20 minutes of the game. I don't know if that's a statistical fact. but it seems like it to me there are more moments when the crowd gathers itself because the ball is going to go into the box one way or another and we do we gather ourselves if it's a corner it's because the ball's going into the box a free kick from the right place same thing a marlon pack long throw again ditto uh same thing because conor ogilvy got a long throw i think he has but we won't find out for three or four three games now so damn
that's academic but shortnessy going forward anybody who was there the night we won the title which is now a lifetime ago but anybody who was there was it the 87th 88th 89th minute we had a corner over on our right in it came the frat and end inhaled and i'm sure to see went up and it was the most pile driving header near post as i remember it or more or less near post uh perfectly guided but so powerful i mean i'm being absolutely factual when i say that even when i was in my some sort of pomp i couldn't kick the ball as hard as he headed that goal i was on the halfway line in the stand and i heard the header i heard the thump as his head hit the ball and it was just it was a mark hateley if you go back that far
If you don't, ask your dad or even your granddad or grandma if they ever saw Mark Haitley head the ball because he did thumping headers like almost nobody. No, I'm going to say like nobody, actually. An English centre forward, old-fashioned English centre forward. Father was an old-fashioned English centre forward, a man who did thumping headers as well. But not since the days of Mark Hateley, I would put it to you, have we seen anybody who can do a thumping header at a corner like Connor Shaughnessy. So we will probably start him once and bench him, start him on the bench.
What dilemmas does the coach face with player rotations?
once in these two important games that we've got coming up. But we can make team selection decisions like that on the back of an envelope and it amounts to nothing. John Massino has to make them and they get pinned up on the notice board. We asked AI to find out what Neil Allen and Andy Moon are saying about Connor Ogilvie's red card. And as ever with AI, it's not quite there yet. It's a bit cack-handed, but interesting nonetheless. So Neil Allen, but first of all, Andy Moon.
I've watched the replay back a number of times. It's not a great challenge for me, though. It's in the clumsy category rather than the reckless, dangerous categories. So I feel it should have been a yellow card rather than a red. I accept there are some people out there arguing so red fair enough I don't think there's any chance of an appeal being successful because it clearly is a yellow card and the bar to overturn a red is is very high.
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