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Defending at Spurs was suicidal, says Blackburn Rovers boss

1:30pm Monday 15th March 2010 in


SAM Allardyce has accused of Blackburn Rovers of committing “suicide” at White Hart Lane on Saturday after a brave away display was destroyed by mistakes.

The Rovers boss was satisfied with his side’s overall performance but pointed at too many individual errors as the main reason for their 3-1 defeat.

Jermain Defoe’s close range effort started the ball rolling for the hosts on the stroke of half time, before Roman Pavlyuch-enko’s second half brace sandwiched Chris Samba’s towering header.

Allardyce said: “In the main we have ourselves to blame. For the goals we have conceded we have ourselves to blame and we have had the unfortunate situation where we have had to change our goalkeeper as well.

“The first goal it was more the near post area we should have defended better. That was very disappointing having got to a stage of the game where we should have been determined enough to get to half time 0-0.

“It came because we did a lot of messing about with our own throw in in our own half before that and not getting the ball in the opposition half, we ended up putting ourselves under pressure, conceded the corner and ultimately conceding the goal.

“Second half, we reorganise, take control of the game and are dominating it. Spending most of it in Tottenham’s half and trying to create a goal when Brett Emerton heads a ball sideways to the edge of their box instead of across goal, their player picks it up passes, makes a run and within three or four second Pavlyuchenko is on the edge of our box has a shot and it goes under Jason Brown.

“You can’t keep committing suicide like that. Our overall play was very good and we got ourselves back in the game with a good goal.

"You would have thought we had learned our lesson but no, we go and make even more errors for the third goal. That was that.”

Comments(19)

eddie the eagle says...
1:49pm Mon 15 Mar 10

We've got bad full backs and we really miss Nelson,we obviously put time into set pieces so you would think we would defend them better.Also Salgado was left on his own against Bale far to often pace is sadly lacking throughout the side.Dunn,Pedersen and Emerton are yesterday it's time to start again.

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guiderover says...
2:24pm Mon 15 Mar 10

The way we defended on Saturday its know wonder we can't win away from home.Wasn't it the other day that Chimbonda was moaning about not going to the world cup with France.Well Pascal,after watching you defend for the 3rd goal its pretty obvious why France have not chosen you.Lets hope we defend better on Sunday or we could be in for a long afternoon.

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jeppo says...
2:44pm Mon 15 Mar 10

...makes it a bit clearer as to why Chimbonda has been left out of a few games recently.
Eddie, my view is that we've got a lot of 'competent' midfielders that can do a decent job, but we are crying out for a) someone who has got real quality on the ball...can find a pass/score from outside the box etc
b) pace out wide.
From your posts, you seem to feel all of the existing ones are below the level required...do you not see something in Emerton/Peds (Nzonzi/Andrews/Diou
f) that is worth working with, assuming we had a better player alongside them???

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guiderover says...
2:55pm Mon 15 Mar 10

I still miss Tugay,the quality he possessed on the ball and a cool head.I'm hoping Basturk will start soon and be as successful as Tugay was.

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hasslem hasslem says...
3:14pm Mon 15 Mar 10

guiderover wrote:
I still miss Tugay,the quality he possessed on the ball and a cool head.I'm hoping Basturk will start soon and be as successful as Tugay was.
anybody reckon basturk will get a game before the end of the season?
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not many games to go.

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eddie the eagle says...
4:52pm Mon 15 Mar 10

jeppo wrote:
...makes it a bit clearer as to why Chimbonda has been left out of a few games recently. Eddie, my view is that we've got a lot of 'competent' midfielders that can do a decent job, but we are crying out for a) someone who has got real quality on the ball...can find a pass/score from outside the box etc b) pace out wide. From your posts, you seem to feel all of the existing ones are below the level required...do you not see something in Emerton/Peds (Nzonzi/Andrews/Diou f) that is worth working with, assuming we had a better player alongside them???
JEPPO:I certainly think that Nzonzi is very capable I think Ollson is worth sticking with on the left and Diouf can do a job in certain games but the three I named plus Andrews are going backwards.I agree that we need quality on the ball and pace throughout the midfield but we can't cobble those attributes from five in midfield put together.Its a pity Grella can't stay fit but its a fact he's becoming A liability.By the way when I say Ollson on the left I don't mean full back because a full back he ain't.

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marghen says...
5:08pm Mon 15 Mar 10

Any midfield with 3 wide men & a half fit injury prone Dunn(making him slow & unfit) in it, can’t hope to succeed against a Spurs midfield even when that Spurs midfield was their second string -no Huddlestone-Lennon-J
enas-Bentley- I’m not Andrews biggest fan but, it was obvious from the starting line ups that Nzonzi needed some help (muscle) in the engine room instead he had lightweights in there pussyfooting around !

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hasslem hasslem says...
5:36pm Mon 15 Mar 10

Steady on Sam! Less of the moaning about the performance, you will have Jeppo and his pals after you for being negative.
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Now that wouldn't do.

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Morst says...
5:45pm Mon 15 Mar 10

Anyone else surprised he did not take action with Salgado because it looked like suicide to keep him on?
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Meanwhile Duffer anyone!
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Jeppo - out of interest how would you like us to approach the Burnley game given their wobbly defence?
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31st.......

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BlueSkies says...
5:48pm Mon 15 Mar 10

We still need a few more points for survival, given that we can't/don't win away and we have a horrendous home run-in of games... where are the points coming from?

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blackburnley says...
6:20pm Mon 15 Mar 10

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blueandwhitey79 says...
7:07pm Mon 15 Mar 10

hope the defence is awake and ready for the next away game, otherwise im emigrating if its another poor away day,

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jeppo says...
8:36pm Mon 15 Mar 10

Morst...absolutely 100% i would play 1 up front against Burnley, sorry but I think thats a silly question! Given the fact that its a derby, the fact that their home record is good and the fact that our away record is poor, we need to nullify the game for the first 20 minutes, quieten the crowd down etc and cancel them out. In the course of the game our quality will tell (or our superior set pieces lol) and we can then win the game. Playing 2 up front gives their strongest department (midfield) chance to express themselves, so we run the risk of conceding early which would be a nightmare.
For me, its all about getting a decent result in this game, I don't want to risk defeat for anything!!
incidentally, the formation that has worked well recently is more of a 4-3-3...the same, but different, I would actually prefer that, for the same reasons.

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jeppo says...
8:41pm Mon 15 Mar 10

Hasslem, there was me, fully expecting you to be all Morst-like, and trot out your usual line where you pick holes in everything Sam says - instead of that, I am interpreting this as you actually agreeing with what Sam says!! You know what, I agree with him as well! We did let ourselves down really, silly mistakes. To be fair the silliest mistake seemed to be Sam allowing Salgado to be exposed against Bale...once he saw that for the first time, I would have expected him to switch Chimbonda to RB and drop Olssen to left back. Why didn't he do that, then? I can't work it out.

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hasslem hasslem says...
9:39pm Mon 15 Mar 10

jeppo wrote:
Hasslem, there was me, fully expecting you to be all Morst-like, and trot out your usual line where you pick holes in everything Sam says - instead of that, I am interpreting this as you actually agreeing with what Sam says!! You know what, I agree with him as well! We did let ourselves down really, silly mistakes. To be fair the silliest mistake seemed to be Sam allowing Salgado to be exposed against Bale...once he saw that for the first time, I would have expected him to switch Chimbonda to RB and drop Olssen to left back. Why didn't he do that, then? I can't work it out.
So he should sack himself for being rubbish - or,.... he shouldn't make comments if all he can say is negative?

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jeppo says...
10:49pm Mon 15 Mar 10

I think the reality is that he HAS to make comments so that we can debate them, all part of the package...I wouldn't sack him, but I would be interested in the salgado situation.
I'm sure you would be sacking him on the spot, but if you read the article, his comments above are generally positive, in that he is saying that 'our overall play was very good' but a couple of errors cost us the game. Depends on what you want to read, I suppose.

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eddie the eagle says...
12:06am Tue 16 Mar 10

In kenny's team Ripley would have taken the sting out of Bale before he got anywhere near the full back same with Wilcoxs on the other flank.We havn't got a player with anywhere near the pace to mark Bale on his own,Lennon exposed Ollson and Chimbonda gets slower every week or less interested which ever you prefer.

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Morst says...
8:36am Tue 16 Mar 10

Jeppo - Burnley good at home? - That was August / Sept man!
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Since then they have managed only 2 fluky (even Clarets say so!) odd goal wins against Hull and West Ham. Recently 1 point form 9 against Portsmouth, Stoke and Wolves!
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We play into their hands if we don't take advantage of their nervous defence. Two up front and Dunny in midfield.
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31st........

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BluesBros says...
5:35pm Tue 16 Mar 10

Wasn’t expecting Rovers to get anything at Spurs but thought we played well for long periods in the game. The goal right on half time was cruel to us having defended so well and got so close to half time. Spurs 2nd & 3rd goals were both down to Chimbonda in my opinion. Roman Pavlyuchenko should never have been given the room he was afforded to get a shot away on goal and Brown will be disappointed he didn’t stop it. The 3rd was laughable as he let Pavlyuchenko have two goes at scoring and just appeared to be ball watching. His defensive mistakes have cost us dear this season. He was also to blame for Spur’s first goal when we played them at home earlier this season when he just let Cranjar cross the ball unchallenged for Crouch to head home right on half time. We need to get fired up for the home game against Birmingham, I believe we can win that one and then it’s on to Burnley where we surly must go with an offensive set up. We really let them off the hook at Ewood when we were 3-1 up at half time coming out in the second half just content to keep what we had. We should be going there confident and full of belief that we will get all three points and do it in style.

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