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Finding ways to lose - SaltergateBorn - 26-09-2018
As some of you are aware, I have been known - just occasionally - to bang on about the lack of creativity in the team. There is one aspect of our game, however, in which Mozart would have been proud of our level of creativity, and that is our ability to find ways of losing games that we really should have won - or at least got a point.
I actually don`t think we played that badly last night; particularly in the second half, when we tried to keep the ball on the floor a bit and, believe it or not, tried to play through midfield once or twice. I really do think there`s a half-decent team in there that`s desperately trying to get out. The trouble is, when a team is as lacking in confidence as we are at the moment, nothing seems to come off and every mistake seems to get penalised. To me, that`s what happened last night.
When we got back into the game with the penalty, at which point I thought we would go on to get at least a point, Jalal immediately dropped an almighty hollock and that was it - game over. (You can`t blame the manager for that.) The other 2 goals were individual defensive nightmares as well. Young Kayode looked to be a handful when he came on and Charlie Carter gave us a bit of a zip in midfield that we`ve lacked for some time. Unfortunately, once you go behind you`re chasing the game and, particularly at home, teams are going to sit back and when you`re as lacking in creativity as we are and as desperate to get a result as we are things become a bit frantic, to put it mildly.
I really don`t think Maidenhead deserved anything from the game last night. That`s probably being very ungracious, and I usually try to give credit to the opposition, but I really do think they were the niggliest team I`ve seen for a while. Unfortunately I`m afraid that weak refereeing is something we are going to have to get used to at this level, but having said that how on earth they were allowed to get away with some of their antics last night baffles me. There was an elbow in the back and a foot left in at virtually every challenge, it seemed to me. Not that I`m biased, of course.
I felt really sorry for the players at the end of the game. Once again - I`m getting fed up with saying this - there was no lack of effort from anybody as far as I could see and I`m sure their morale is raised no end by having to put up with another tirade of abuse from some of our resident morons who pass themselves off as `supporters`. They may be professional footballers but they`re still human beings, for God`s sake. I could go on further on that subject, but I won`t
RE: Finding ways to lose - Devongone - 26-09-2018
I was wondering if pushing two young, enthusiastic players - Amantchi and Kayode up with Denton might help the team.
With Weir injured I'd have thought Carter is going to have to be creative and responsible ....... and really step up.
Looking at Bobs Board no one seems to have identified any positives, or indeed any ways in which MA or even Pep Guardiola could do anything with these players. (I felt that was kinda true of GC's team, but I can fit these lads into several team combinations that look as though they might at least work on paper.) All we need is a paper pitch.
RE: Finding ways to lose - bluepooch - 26-09-2018
Good points .
The problem is that MA too has tried lots of combinations unsuccesfully and admits he does not know which is his best team .
I agree Carter did well and is really the only creative outlet and the only one who looks like he would fit in a Paul Cook team. Kayode reminded me of a young Gboly ,very raw but with obvious ability.
RE: Finding ways to lose - Devongone - 27-09-2018
Yes MA has tinkered with different combinations, but the structure looks much the same ....... and maybe it's that? You have to stretch a defence at several points before it breaks, that's why I wondered if a couple of enthusiastic youngsters firing off one another might give the opposition more to think about than they are used to.