08-03-2017, 15:07
After sleeping on it, here is my honest opinion of the game.
The performance was not as bad as the result would suggest! Negative Nigel came knowing they started the game in possession of a point, which he did not want to lose, but wasn't entirely bothered about winning. Westwood made one world class save, but unfortunately the clearance from the resulting corner landed at the feet of Burtons only decent player, who smashed an unstoppable half volley in of the post.
You knew from the start that they were just going to defend, as Marvin Sordell (a centre forward) only ran past the halfway line on a handful of occasions!
Our problem was that we played the ball about too much in front of two banks of 5, in the last 20 minutes we started to put the ball in behind the defenders. This caused them to face their own goal and resulted in all the pressure and resulting corners. Unfortunately we were not able to score the winning goal.
Westwood = 8, nothing to do apart from one truly amazing save. Had no chance with the goal.
Hunt = 6, neither poor or great, some of the final balls in were poor, but generally defended well.
Sasso = 7, Calm and collected on the ball and sound defensively, no idea why some people criticize him, other than the gaol at Weeds granted.
Loovens = 7, great defensively, but too slow to get the ball to someone who can do some damage with it.
Fox = 8, Great in defense and very good coming forward, put in some great crosses last night and I am still oblivious to why he was subbed! My MOM!
Wallace = 6, great goal (feck knows what the keeper was doing though), but his right foot is only for standing on.
Jones = 6, He is not the player I was excited about when we signed him, wandering when he is going to step up to the plate, saying that he did not really do anything wrong.
Bannan = 8, Always wanting the ball and played some great long passes, just missing that killer pass on the night.
Fessi = 7, got clobbered early in the game and from that point never really produced what we know he can, was unfortunate with an overhead kick in the last minutes though.
Winnall = 7, Cant fault the lad on his work rate and the space he genuinely creates for Rhodes, would have scored if his shot was not straight at Rhodes early in the game (hit Jordan in the nuts).
Rhodes = 7, Only ever got one clear chance, which he created for himself and the resulting shot was saved by the keepers face.
Reach = 6 Did not really have enough time, made a high number of crosses, unfortunately none were converted.
Fletcher = 5, I was very positive when we signed him, not sure he will be with us too long, failed to connect with a ball headed back across goal by Sasso.
Buckley = 7, looked lively, good to have him back in the fold, One great piece of skill to get passed his marker late in the game, but his cross was just behind the on rushing forwards.
Villa will be better for us as they will be going all out for a win!
Could be worse, we could be GOONERS!
The performance was not as bad as the result would suggest! Negative Nigel came knowing they started the game in possession of a point, which he did not want to lose, but wasn't entirely bothered about winning. Westwood made one world class save, but unfortunately the clearance from the resulting corner landed at the feet of Burtons only decent player, who smashed an unstoppable half volley in of the post.
You knew from the start that they were just going to defend, as Marvin Sordell (a centre forward) only ran past the halfway line on a handful of occasions!
Our problem was that we played the ball about too much in front of two banks of 5, in the last 20 minutes we started to put the ball in behind the defenders. This caused them to face their own goal and resulted in all the pressure and resulting corners. Unfortunately we were not able to score the winning goal.
Westwood = 8, nothing to do apart from one truly amazing save. Had no chance with the goal.
Hunt = 6, neither poor or great, some of the final balls in were poor, but generally defended well.
Sasso = 7, Calm and collected on the ball and sound defensively, no idea why some people criticize him, other than the gaol at Weeds granted.
Loovens = 7, great defensively, but too slow to get the ball to someone who can do some damage with it.
Fox = 8, Great in defense and very good coming forward, put in some great crosses last night and I am still oblivious to why he was subbed! My MOM!
Wallace = 6, great goal (feck knows what the keeper was doing though), but his right foot is only for standing on.
Jones = 6, He is not the player I was excited about when we signed him, wandering when he is going to step up to the plate, saying that he did not really do anything wrong.
Bannan = 8, Always wanting the ball and played some great long passes, just missing that killer pass on the night.
Fessi = 7, got clobbered early in the game and from that point never really produced what we know he can, was unfortunate with an overhead kick in the last minutes though.
Winnall = 7, Cant fault the lad on his work rate and the space he genuinely creates for Rhodes, would have scored if his shot was not straight at Rhodes early in the game (hit Jordan in the nuts).
Rhodes = 7, Only ever got one clear chance, which he created for himself and the resulting shot was saved by the keepers face.
Reach = 6 Did not really have enough time, made a high number of crosses, unfortunately none were converted.
Fletcher = 5, I was very positive when we signed him, not sure he will be with us too long, failed to connect with a ball headed back across goal by Sasso.
Buckley = 7, looked lively, good to have him back in the fold, One great piece of skill to get passed his marker late in the game, but his cross was just behind the on rushing forwards.
Villa will be better for us as they will be going all out for a win!
Could be worse, we could be GOONERS!
JUST SAYING LIKE!