16-03-2016, 10:28
Sadly the U21s were very poor. I know it's only one game but on that performance none of them are anywhere near good enough to challenge for a first team spot.
Our most competent player by a country mile was the goalkeeper who dug his team out of a hole on 4-5 occasions and had Hull been any good at finishing we would have had no need for extra time.nthats not to say we didn't have chances, we did. We came close at several corners but failed to get headers on target all bar one that was cleared off the line in the second half of normal time and we had a couple of decent shots but the Hull keeper was easily up to the test.
Flo Bojaj started well, held the ball up and then faded badly. Pyke came on in the second half to play his position up top and looked a far better player. Bojaj was moved to play in the number 10 role just behind and I don't know if he was tired but he just looked disinterested and lazy.
Defence looked shakey hence the reason our keeper kept us in it, dallying on the ball and stray passes putting us under pressure without the need to be...mainly our central defenders. Although to be fair they won a fair amount of ball in the air and put in some decent tackles.
Midfield, Holmes seemed to be playing at the back of midfield in a holding role and in the first half he would try a World Cup style pass to create things or a jinxing run but we just didn't have anything once we got forward and so it would come back again. Charles, one or two nice touches but again for me not enough.
Like I say, it's disappointing and hopefully they learned a little bit more about the game to push them on to be better players.
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Our most competent player by a country mile was the goalkeeper who dug his team out of a hole on 4-5 occasions and had Hull been any good at finishing we would have had no need for extra time.nthats not to say we didn't have chances, we did. We came close at several corners but failed to get headers on target all bar one that was cleared off the line in the second half of normal time and we had a couple of decent shots but the Hull keeper was easily up to the test.
Flo Bojaj started well, held the ball up and then faded badly. Pyke came on in the second half to play his position up top and looked a far better player. Bojaj was moved to play in the number 10 role just behind and I don't know if he was tired but he just looked disinterested and lazy.
Defence looked shakey hence the reason our keeper kept us in it, dallying on the ball and stray passes putting us under pressure without the need to be...mainly our central defenders. Although to be fair they won a fair amount of ball in the air and put in some decent tackles.
Midfield, Holmes seemed to be playing at the back of midfield in a holding role and in the first half he would try a World Cup style pass to create things or a jinxing run but we just didn't have anything once we got forward and so it would come back again. Charles, one or two nice touches but again for me not enough.
Like I say, it's disappointing and hopefully they learned a little bit more about the game to push them on to be better players.
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