Momentum after conceding a goal

"A team is most vulnerable just after they've scored" - it's one the oldest clichés in football; we've all heard it, some of us may have even said it. But for it to ring true, a team must restart with purpose and brush off the disappointment of allowing the opposition to net.

Former Premier League boss Iain Dowie knows just how crucial it is to refocus and keep up your tempo when you have conceded, in order to catch the other team unawares while some of their players are taking it easy.

Allow Dowie to elaborate...

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Also see:
Iain Dowie: Defending with 10 men
Dealing with disappointment
Playing as a target man: the essentials
Building a good vocal unit
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Positive mental attitude

Huw was on the FourFourTwo staff from 2009 to 2015, ultimately as the magazine's Managing Editor, before becoming a freelancer and moving to Wales. As a writer, editor and tragic statto, he still contributes regularly to FFT in print and online, though as a match-going #WalesAway fan, he left a small chunk of his brain on one of many bus journeys across France in 2016.