I was looking forward to the match today

Until about 2:15 when I read the team sheet. At home against the bottom of the league and we can't put two strikers on the pitch? I understand we had injuries earlier in the season so it was needs must, but Davies has set up two goals in the last two games and Vaz Te has scored two in the last two games, yet both of these were overlooked in preference of a clearly unfit Matty Done. Depressing, before the match has even started.

First half was awful and we were lucky to go in only a goal down.

Second half we went 4-4-2 and looked far more threatening. In the first half we offered nothing, in the second at least we started causing them some problems, but we still wasted 15 minutes playing Matty Done up front instead of bringing on Davies at half time.

Gray missed from 4 yards. It was one of those that your granny would score: open net, four yards out, took a special bit of skill to miss it as it was much easier to score. Butterfield rattled the bar with an excellent shot. Then Davies got one (although the Tannoy said it was O'Brien) after some excellent work by McEveley and it looked like we might go on and win it. But we lost momentum towards the end and Bristol City nicked it, which to be fair they always looked capable of doing. In my opinion though we lost the game in the first half where we showed nothing. After that we were always chasing the game.

I'd start the game on Tuesday with the team that finished it today, unless Hassell is fit who would replace Wiseman who I thought was poor.

 

why do you think wiseman was poor,

Looks confident and assured every time he has the ball to me rarely looses his man and rarely gives the ball away

 

I thought he looked the exact opposite

Looked nervous, gave the ball away a lot and lost his man on numerous occasions. He wasn't the only one, the defence looked shaky all game, but unlike the other positions I think we've got a better right back than Wiseman.

Just my opinion.

 

Re: I thought he looked the exact opposite

and you are more that entitled to it

 

I Agree

Dire today, very poor game, looked out of his depth and out of confidence.

 

Re: I Agree

tyrone are you his dad by any chance?He is a complete waste of space.

 

Re: I Agree

When we were playing our best football, everything was going through Jacob Butterfield. It looks like it has gotten around the league, because today he was tightly marked in the first half by the city 21. At the start of the second half we went to 4-4-2. But the other change that you do not mention is that Butterfield went to play wide right. Firstly, this left the 21 marking no-one in particular, and it turned out he was not that great on the ball. However, Butterfield on the right is not half the player he is down the middle and it effectively meant that our playmaker was taken out of the game. I know that he hit the bar but this was his only contribution. The change that put us on top was bringing on Perkins for Doyle, rather than taking Done off for Vaz Te. It seems to me that Vaz Te is a bit of a luxury. The change that put city back on top was the removal of the 21 who had marked Butterfield out of the game in the first half. This put City back on top in the middle of the park and got them going forward again. All of that is obviously preceeded by IMHO.

 

Re: I Agree

nope i am not his had and he is a good player

 

Re: I thought he looked the exact opposite

Mmmmmm...........that seems to indicate that any team who goes 1 down is chasing the game. What's more, we drew level. We thus did not lose the game in the first half.

We were crap though in the first half - thinking we can play like England when without a high enough tempo we're as crap as errr...England!!

I'd cut Gray some slack re that chance cos it came across like a bullet and seemed harder to miss than Maynard's in the first half.

Which brings me to my conclusion - Maynard was the difference between the 2 teams today. Looked a cut above although apparently he's a bit temperamental.

Dunt matter we didn't play 2 up front. But Done was slow and lightweight and perhaps an unwise choice when compared to a deceptively dangerous Davies