Jay Wright didn't sound happy with his team's
defensive effort after they dropped a ton of points (and played an absurd pace) against Nicholls State on Tuesday night.
Not exact matches
After a really tough and dogged
effort from the home team, Arsenal finally broke through the Watford
defensive line and that was a huge relief.
Unfortunately from a Reds perspective, the poor
defensive work wasn't finished yet as they conceded again with Abdoulaye Doucoure taking full advantage as he slammed home an
effort after a contentious offside call to restore Watford's lead heading into the half - time interval.
This comes just days
after the Falcons were criticized by Tampa Bay Buccaneers
defensive lineman Gerald McCoy, who said that there was a definite lack of
effort from the Atlanta defense last week.
The goal certainly provoked a reaction from the favourites and they were level within ten minutes thanks to a classy
effort from Can, who strode forward from his
defensive midfield position and calmly stroked the ball into the bottom corner
after losing his marker with ease.
That came months
after Jackson publicly criticized Anthony for holding the ball too long, and co-signed a few other articles written by his friend Charley Rosen that ripped into the star's
defensive efforts.
I told our players
after the game that our defense can't tied to our shot making, our
defensive effort is the thing that we can control.
The few casualties among the herdsmen have always been associated with
defensive efforts or in a few cases, reprisals from raw emotions
after entire villages and their people have been wiped out.