Cheltenham boss wary of “very dangerous” Tom Pope

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Cheltenham manager Gary Johnson has singled out Port Vale striker Tom Pope as the dangerman ahead of the weekend meeting between the two sides. Vale’s top-scorer scored twice against Cheltenham earlier in the season as*the Valiants recorded a 3-1 home win. Ahead of the return fixture Johnson told the media: “He is definitely a threat […]

 

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[PVTony]

So what will the Cheltenham boss do?

Put two big defenders on Pope - danger blotted out, unless we have two strikers for their defenders to contend with.

Two speedy wide men would help Vale to score. Cheltenham have one of the weakest defences in L2. Conceded 46.

[TJHValiant]

Pope is our only danger. He is right. Usually managers of good clubs doing well talk of a variety of threats, but with us it is of course just Pope.

 

Which isn’t enough.

[Lornelounger]

Interesting mind games by Johnson. Cue the doubling up on Popey, the pushing, climbing, grabbing to negate his threat. I reckon we should play Nippy Naylor of hm to cause pandemonium in the Chelt...sorry, wrong decade, I'll get me coat....

[ELDERBEZZA]

We must play 2 up front, as Pope will be marked out of game.More effort and a higher tempo will get a result too.