Not good enough – Darrell Clarke on Port Vale’s draw with Stevenage
Port Vale manager Darrell Clarke says blame lies with the players after Port Vale’s poor first-half display against Stevenage.
I need to analyse why we performed so badly because I had done my job right. The shape was right, but for me it looked like a lot of basic, very poor errors…
Vale had a difficult first-half before rallying in the second period. Clarke says his tactics were right and the problem lies with the players. He commented: “Let’s not paper over that first half. That was atrocious, not good enough, not anywhere near good enough.
“I need to analyse why we performed so badly because I had done my job right. The shape was right, but for me it looked like a lot of basic, very poor errors.
“We weren’t doing the basics of the game right, we looked all over the shop. We scored a good goal, they equalised, but I never felt comfortable in the first-half so I made the changes I thought were necessary in the second-half to give us better impetus. I thought we probably edged the second-half.”
The Port Vale manager felt the second-half display was more encouraging adding: “The reaction was good in the second half, really positive on the front foot.
“We got a good reaction in the second half. That can happen sometimes in this league where you are nowhere near it, which we weren’t in that first half.”
PVFC
22nd August 2021 @ 11:17 am
The fault lies squarely on Clarke’s shoulders poor use of personnel, playing people out of position and playing formations the players are not suited to. Anyone with half a brain can see 4/3/3 is still our best formation. Clarke I feel does not even have that.
Gary Gibson
22nd August 2021 @ 7:09 pm
I have seen every game so far and the manager doesn’t know his best 11 yet but Worrall is not a wingback and we clearly need a strong midfielder to support Conlon and Pett is not it imho and we need a focal point in attack