I was overseas for the Preston game but I understand it was one if the worst halves of the season. Agree with you about yesterday, no real chances for them apart from the goals.
Even allowing for reflection yesterday still feels like such a strange game. So poor in the first half and under what felt like constant pressure, without conceding in open play or giving away any kind of real chance. Yet 2-0 down with chances of our own missed. And then again in the second half we didn’t give away any real chances of note and Radlinger has been a passenger for 90 minutes, and had 6/7 good chances of our own. But despite all that nobody left the ground thinking we deserved to win.
Preston scored a very good goal. I would urge any fan of football to watch it. The speed and accuracy of the passing is nothing short of brilliant. It looks simple but it isn't, it's amazing. Then Andersen gifted them a couple more, aided and abetted by his team mates. Pretty similar to what we've done in most matches. Sometimes the opposition punish us for these mistakes, sometimes they don't. For me, it was the second half that was terrible. You saw a reaction yesterday, a fight back. There wasn't one against Preston. We accepted the 3-0 defeat.
And Halme tried to gift them a couple more as well. I think the difference yesterday is that Charlton were a poor team low on confidence, where as Preston were well drilled, organised, and clearly better opponents. That’s why we saw more of a reaction yesterday, because as bad as the first half was we could have gone in level or just the one goal down.
I guess end of April will tell us whether we are first, second or twenty fourth. Right now we have proved that we are the 23rd 'best' in the league.
Which as been the problem since pre-season yet hasn't been addressed by the board despite it being obvious to two head coaches one caretaker head coach all the local sports journos and the vast majority of fans hence the totally justifiable negativity. We've won 5 ******* games all season that tends to cause negativity in a fan base with good reason.
If yesterday was a one off, then I can understand the OP saying that reaction was knee jerk. But it's wasn't.
I think it’s easy to get carried away with stats but Charlton clearly decided to shut up shop & let us have the ball in the second half. Also there were a couple of occasions where we had 2 or 3 shots in the same move due to rebounds / keeper saves so it’s not like we broke Charlton down each individual time we had a shot. For me we did deserve to get a point from the game but only because Bowyer got his tactics wrong. He decided to shut up shop like Lee Johnson did with his Bristol side at Oakwell. It’s the worst thing you can do against us. If you leave pacey forwards up the pitch you will be able to pick us off when we’re chasing the game. If we went with them kind of tactics from the start I’m pretty sure we’d get beat even more comprehensively as we’d just get picked off.
That's what the highlights show and we hit the post between the 2 goals. I thought Radlinger should have shown a bit more bottle and got to the ball for the first goal.
If you would have watched the game you wouldn't be saying get a grip we were awful, could t take a basic throw in, pa's a ball, 2 many fouls.. Next time watch a full game first before commenting
The stats favour us most weeks, but we’ve only won 5 games from 30. Should haves and could haves won’t count for anything if we go down. If yesterday was one game in isolation I’d agree, but it tells the story of full season of the attack trying to bale out the defence unfortunately
I watched the 90-minute extended highlights from my seat in the away end, and we were fvcking ***** first half. We're one million per cent certain to be relegated. Could have had a draw, maybe. Could have won, maybe. Didn't, just like most other weeks.
