Dawson was everywhere, so was Dagnall & O'Grady. Bringing a half fit Etuhu on after twenty minutes obviously didn't help matters either. Disappointing, but fantastic performance for more than 60 minutes. A lack of experience when we were 2-0 up hit us but we'll be reight. That's the side I enjoy watching. You reds.
Just replace Dagnall with goals and Dawson with something more than a headless chicken and we may have ourselves a half decent team.
Dawson the one who was all over, covering most of the right hand side and battling like f.ck for every ball? We need a new striker but we'll miss Dagnall when he doesn't play.
We should have easily seen that game out. I can't remember a safer win being dropped, not even Derby in the last minute. The substitution upset our shape and left gaps for them to exploit, which had been more than ably covered before that. I actually thought Kelvin looked fit and sharp, though he faded a bit late on. Sad thing now is that we could go into the international break without a win.
How was he headless? Had a good game imo and always seemed to be where the ball was. Dagnall did well and was unlucky not to score. Great save by their keeper.
Maybe, but the amount of graft those players put in kind of excuses it. I assume the plan is to have one of Kelvin/Perkins/Dawson on the bench and bring them on to freshen it up. Couldn't do that today.
I think we need a bit more experience. We were still counter attacking Charlton at 2-0 and us losing the ball started the first goal. Should've shut up shop but failed to do so. But it was a proper performance which I enjoyed watching. We'll be fine.
That was the problem, we shouldn't have tried to shut up shot. We were running 'em ragged and they were never in the game till he took our only attacking/creative midfielder off. Flicker decided to shut up shop with more than 20 minutes to go and we he totally handed them the initiative. Three defensive midfielders all dropped back to the edge of our own box and let them have the ball. Only a matter of time before they equalised and we were lucky not to chuck away the lot. There's absolutely no reason to try to shut up shop when you're running them ragged. Could have won by three or four but ended up settling for a point. Sometimes managers get over-tactical and that was the problem today.
No, but they had a bit more 'nouse' and just waited to pick us off. We continued in the same vein which in the end cost us. Experience.
