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Germany v NI 11:52 - Sep 8 with 673 views

Watched the second half of the game to keep an eye on Galbraith but it became clear after Germany made their substitutions to press on that NI lost any threat up front with their defensive set up, yes they did get a number of set piece and the gulf in quality of individual players but NI forwards were feeding on scraps.
It was very reminiscent of our performance at times last season even under Sheehan in the later stages and with a lot of possession at times with forwards players being mostly starved of quality possession while our defensive tried to stay solid similar to NI under sustained pressure.
It does look as if we have enough players with the ability to pose a threat uptop, players both uptop and in the middle of the park to relieve the pressure brought to bare with a viable threat and turn opposition's forward play into more cautious defensive play which NI were unable to do.
Bit early to see if things go to plan but quietly optimistic.

Germany v NI on 18:09 - Sep 8 with 366 views

EagleEye

I watched the first half and the NI pressing had Germany in all sorts of bother. Galbraith was pretty anonymous in both halves to be honest & got subbed off earlyish in the second half when losing 3-1

Germany v NI on 19:35 - Sep 8 with 290 views

Fireboy2

Germany v NI on 18:09 - Sep 8 by EagleEye
I watched the first half and the NI pressing had Germany in all sorts of bother. Galbraith was pretty anonymous in both halves to be honest & got subbed off earlyish in the second half when losing 3-1

I think most were as they were chasing around pressing the Germans.

The Germans had almost 80% of the ball so it isn't a surprise most were anonymous.

Its good for galbraith to play against good international teams.

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