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Montgomery brings his Mariners Plan A to Hibs
Edinburgh Evening News
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18/09/2023
Montgomery brings his Mariners Plan A to Hibs.
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Hi folks, welcome back to the Tactics Zone where today we're having a look at Nick Montgomery's
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first game as Hibs manager.
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A 2-2 draw against Kamanak at Rugby Park.
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We kind of thought that Montgomery would go towards the 4-4-2 he'd used at Central Coast
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and that's exactly what he did.
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Made a couple of personnel changes but went with a really solid 4-4-2.
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Really compact without the ball, creating a bit more width, almost a 4-2-4 when they
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had the ball.
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You can see this right from the very start.
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You see the wingers, Ewan and Boyle, who are kind of playing on opposite sides so they
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can cut in.
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Tucking in to make a more compact block.
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They end up stealing the ball right from the kick-off.
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And then I found it interesting what happened next.
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Doidge clearly knew to arc his run and go wide, not because he's going to play as a
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winger suddenly but he wants to drag a defender out of position and create Boyle some space.
01:03
You can see all that space in behind.
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Just to use his pace and go searing right through the middle of the killie defence.
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It was something we'd see repeated again and again.
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Doidge would drift left or drop deep and Boyle would take the space in behind him.
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Nice movement between the front four.
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And you can see, look at this clip, there's not a striker in the picture here.
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It's the two wingers who've switched sides now.
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Ewan and Boyle on a counter-attack.
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But both Doidge and Dylan Venti have played their part by dropping off, creating a little
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bit of movement to create space.
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It was probably the best element of what Hibbs did on Saturday.
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The second goal comes from a throw-in, which is nice, always if you're a coach looking
01:49
for set pieces.
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But you notice Ewan's come all the way across from the right wing.
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This was an element of play that I noticed from watching Montgomery's Mariners.
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Their wingers did not stay wide.
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They went roaming, looking for the danger.
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Lafondrie, who's on for Doidge now, comes short, takes a nice touch into Ewan, into
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Venti and it's a lovely goal.
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So far, so good.
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Now, there's a lot of reasons why Hibbs ended up squandering the two goal lead.
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That the 4-4-2 can be defensively open with your two centre midfielders, and that has
02:25
to do a lot of work.
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I think for the first command goal, if you look at this picture here, maybe being picky,
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I think Rocky Bashiri can be four, maybe five steps to his right in this situation.
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He's been dragged out there initially, but Stevenson's now got the winger covered, Newell's
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offering support.
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If Bashiri goes, say, four steps to his right, he's still in a good cover position if Stevenson
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gets beaten, but he's also making it more difficult for Lyons to run in there and get
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the shot, which is spilled, and then Vassell scores.
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Now we get the, again this is the same with the 4-4-2, sometimes your centre mids can
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get pushed really deep, almost on top of your back four, and it leaves that dangerous space
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there.
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Kennedy got a nice shot away in this instance.
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He lost a goal from a set-piece, I'm not going to go into the details on that, I think everyone
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has to take a bite of the dirt sandwich when you lose a set-piece goal.
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I think more concerning might be this was late on in the game, it just got really frantic
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for Hibbs.
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They were kind of getting dragged in different areas of the park, and maybe they just don't
03:35
have the discipline yet, the positional discipline, to play exactly the way Montgomery wants.
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But they could have been punished here if Dees had taken this chance.
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Conclusion then, well Montgomery's made his intent pretty clear, this is how he wants
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to play.
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The first half in particular, incredibly promising.
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Going to be really interesting to see what he does with another full week on the training
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ground.
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Hope you've enjoyed this, Tactic Zone, if you haven't, find me on Twitter @johnnythegreek
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and tell me exactly where I've gone wrong.
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Otherwise just keep logging on for all your top football coverage.
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