19-09-2023, 23:14
(This post was last modified: 19-09-2023, 23:25 by St Charles Owl.)
(19-09-2023, 23:04)Washington Wrote: We should have had our own free kick before that our defender was being dragged back by his arm when he was tying to break out with the ball. The officials are as bad as ever.
Irrespective of results it would be nice to have settled players all in their correct positions to give everyone a chance of knowing who is going to do what. Also at the moment when we lose the ball we seem to set up in a defensive shape of dustbins with no fluidity and then the other team passes around the bins using their movement off the ball. It’s hard to believe they are professional players.
We saw this last season at times as well. Our midfield goes missing for chunks of the game, sometimes they mark Bannan out of the game, other times we end up chasing shadows but we seem to run around in midfield like headless chickens. Bakinson for all his faults was the only one making runs from midfield and creating space and we could have stolen that at the end. Buckley needs to get fit, he needs to last 90 mins like Bannan always does, then build around those two.
No Windass for me going forward, impact sub only. No Paterson either for the same reason, leave him as a sub. Defence is ok, no need to change it. Delgardo looks better going forward but is a lazy defender, no worse and no better than Johnson in reality. Shame we lost Mo Diaby, he would help improve the midfield.
Attendance was 22,975, so looks like Pei is closest on that one.