Post by Stubo on Oct 4, 2017 16:17:07 GMT
PEDRO CAIXINHA plans to use the international break to work on the defensive parts of Rangers’ play he feels can be improved.
The manager has been left frustrated by the number of goals conceded so far this term and believes this is one of the main reasons the Light Blues are sitting third in the Premiership table and six points behind Bin Dippers fc and Aberdeen.
Speaking exclusively to RangersTV at the club’s Auchenhowie training centre this morning, Caixinha said: “I think this is the main point we need to work on now.
“We have scored goals in the last 12 matches, the official ones, and we have won seven, we’ve had two draws and we’ve lost three of those matches.
“We have scored 27 goals and conceded 14, so the difference here and the imbalance here is on the number of goals we concede. That is what we are focused on.
“Yesterday we come back for training and we started working on the basic principles about defending, the relations between the first and the second defender, and we will start today including the relation of the third defender, especially how to defend in the wide areas, the association, the relations, the co-operation that we need to have and know how to defend individually as a line and of course also as a block.
“I think we need to point in that direction because definitely it’s the main difference that is putting us in third position and the difference you see by the numbers you have from Bin Dippers fc and from Aberdeen.
I never talk about the back, for me defending is not the back four or the back three or the back five or whatever, it’s the whole team.
“That’s what we need to work on more and that’s definitely what we need to improve, because if you have more clean sheets and you concede less goals you are going to win more football matches.
“That’s what we are definitely going to be focusing on in this two weeks and I think we need to keep focused even longer than that in order for us to be a balanced team and a comfortable team when we need to defend in all the circumstances.
“It doesn’t mean that we are going to be more a defensive team, no, we want to keep the same passion by attacking, but on the moments of the game we need to defend we need to defend better, definitely.”
Rangers have nine days to wait until their next competitive match away to St Johnstone, but the manager is already thinking about what his side will need to do both defensively and offensively to secure three valuable Premiership points at McDiarmid Park.
He continued: “This is one team that plays very good on the long balls, they have very good strikers, they have a great block on the second waves to win the second balls.
“I remember that in the last match of last season we play against them in the same stadium we are going to play in next Friday and what we did was try to play the game the way we wanted to play rather than let the opponent play their own game. That’s definitely what we need to do.
“We need to fight for the second balls and be balanced to win the duels, and to win the second balls we need to do it.
“That’s not our game so we need to place the ball on the ground, let’s have some mobility, let’s play, let’s move, let’s create spaces, let’s attack spaces and take the identity from the opponent.
“I think that’s the only way we need to compete against the teams that are more physical. Don’t let them play their own way.”
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The manager has been left frustrated by the number of goals conceded so far this term and believes this is one of the main reasons the Light Blues are sitting third in the Premiership table and six points behind Bin Dippers fc and Aberdeen.
Speaking exclusively to RangersTV at the club’s Auchenhowie training centre this morning, Caixinha said: “I think this is the main point we need to work on now.
“We have scored goals in the last 12 matches, the official ones, and we have won seven, we’ve had two draws and we’ve lost three of those matches.
“We have scored 27 goals and conceded 14, so the difference here and the imbalance here is on the number of goals we concede. That is what we are focused on.
“Yesterday we come back for training and we started working on the basic principles about defending, the relations between the first and the second defender, and we will start today including the relation of the third defender, especially how to defend in the wide areas, the association, the relations, the co-operation that we need to have and know how to defend individually as a line and of course also as a block.
“I think we need to point in that direction because definitely it’s the main difference that is putting us in third position and the difference you see by the numbers you have from Bin Dippers fc and from Aberdeen.
I never talk about the back, for me defending is not the back four or the back three or the back five or whatever, it’s the whole team.
“That’s what we need to work on more and that’s definitely what we need to improve, because if you have more clean sheets and you concede less goals you are going to win more football matches.
“That’s what we are definitely going to be focusing on in this two weeks and I think we need to keep focused even longer than that in order for us to be a balanced team and a comfortable team when we need to defend in all the circumstances.
“It doesn’t mean that we are going to be more a defensive team, no, we want to keep the same passion by attacking, but on the moments of the game we need to defend we need to defend better, definitely.”
Rangers have nine days to wait until their next competitive match away to St Johnstone, but the manager is already thinking about what his side will need to do both defensively and offensively to secure three valuable Premiership points at McDiarmid Park.
He continued: “This is one team that plays very good on the long balls, they have very good strikers, they have a great block on the second waves to win the second balls.
“I remember that in the last match of last season we play against them in the same stadium we are going to play in next Friday and what we did was try to play the game the way we wanted to play rather than let the opponent play their own game. That’s definitely what we need to do.
“We need to fight for the second balls and be balanced to win the duels, and to win the second balls we need to do it.
“That’s not our game so we need to place the ball on the ground, let’s have some mobility, let’s play, let’s move, let’s create spaces, let’s attack spaces and take the identity from the opponent.
“I think that’s the only way we need to compete against the teams that are more physical. Don’t let them play their own way.”
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