Referee: 4 - Very weak; 40 fouls, and lots more missed showed he could not gain control. Steer: 6 - Very average, but no chance with the goal Dijksteel: 7 - Solid once more Pratley: 7 (MoM) - Did well in his battle with Mackie, though tired near the end Pearce: 6.5 - Much better on the left, and decent again Solly: 5.5 - Did OK until Whyte came on then went missing Reeves: 7 - Looks good on the ball and won the pen with a great bit of play (even if he might then have dived?) Aribo: 6.5 - Starts well but generally fades, and did once more; missed a sitter first half! Cullen: 6.5 - Cannot fault energy and effort Fosu-Henry: 5 - Continually flatters, with no end product Taylor: 5.5 - Overall ineffective, but that might have been because he was being fouled all the time Grant: 5.5 - Ran well but lost the ball too many times when he shouldn't
Holmes was the best player on the pitch and we did well try close him down most of the time. Nice to see Robbo, and he didn't celebrate their goal at all.
Lots of fouls- yes - lots of Oxford players booked so can't fault the ref for that - Not outraged he missed a sending off because he didn't. Not sure what he was supposed to do.
Referee: 3 dreadful Steer: 5 not much to do but distribution poor Dijksteel: 7 best of a bad bunch Pratley: 7 did well in unfamiliar position Pearce: 7 battled away as usual Solly: 6 did ok Reeves: 6 looked most likely but set pieces poor Aribo: 5 looked tired Cullen: 6 largely kept Ricky quiet which was his job for this game Fosu-Henry: 4 looks totally out of sorts Taylor: 5 tired performance Grant: 5 a shadow of the threatening player he looked on Saturday
Ward: n/a didn’t add much Bielik: n/a even in the warm up he looked class, shame he couldn’t come on earlier
Referee: 4, consistently inconsistent - a few obviously bad calls.
Steer: 6.5 collected the ball well, punting it up into the sky is a bit 90s Dijksteel: 6 played okay but not a lot going forward Pratley: 6.5 not bad for a midfielder Pearce: 7 came out on top in his physical battle Solly: 7 couple of really key tackles and running into the space ahead of him Reeves: 6.5 tried and looked like making things happen, but didn't Aribo: 6.5 again not bad Cullen: 6 really got around but his first touch seemed to be letting him down a lot Fosu-Henry: 5.5 looked lively again but lost the ball too much and held onto it too long at times Taylor: 7 caused them problems all night Grant: 5.5 didn't quite get into it... it's a 7 if he gets on the end of either of the balls from Ward or Taylor and scores, fine margins but he contributed little
Referee: 5 - bottled the red and a few incorrect decisions both ways. Steer: 6 - Could do anything about the goal, but his kicking was shit Dijksteel: 7 did well and was a good outlet, made good runs and wasn't found several times Pratley: 6.5 - Did Fine Pearce: 6.5 - Did Fine Solly: 6.5 - Fills in pretty well at LB Reeves: 8 - Best player on the pitch Aribo: 5.5 - Worst game he has had for us that i've seen, appalling first touch when clean through in the first half Cullen: 6.5 - was ok if unspectacular Fosu-Henry: 5.5 struggled Taylor: 7.5 - good pen and caused some problems, first touch let him down a few times yesterday. Grant: 5.5 - very very isolated yesterday, barely got a kick
Referee: 2 useless as Saturdays ref. Steer: 7 good keeper Dijksteel: 7 fine game Pratley: 6.5 did ok. Does silly fouls Pearce:6.5 ok Solly: 6.5 doing ok out of position. Reeves: 6.5 passing better and superb work for pen. Aribo: 6.5 not as good as Saturday. Cullen: 6.5 decent. Fosu-Henry: 6 not quite there this season. Taylor: 6.5 sublime pass but ugly miskicks as well Grant: 6.5 worked so hard and did the runs but the passes weren't accurate to him.
Dijksteel: 7 - looking more composed at right back.
Fossy: 4 - he could get away with his selfishness last year because he was on fire; damp squib though so far this season so needs to play for the team more.
Referee: 2 - better than Saturday's but that's a very low benchmark. Gave far too many soft free-kicks (to both sides) for little/no contact (not that contact implies a foul) thus disrupting the flow of the game but then refused to blow for some cynical shirt-pulling, holding, and a couple of more agricultural challenges. Not sure he could have done anything differently in the build-up to the equaliser, he couldn't have seen that Cullen was in trouble as Ricky was still lying on top of him when Oxford scored.
Referee: 2 - piss poor. just needed to send one of those pathetic excuses in yellow that call themselves football players. would of stopped them with their embarrassing defending.
Steer: 6 - poor distribution but a couple of good saves and punches. don't think he could do anything with the goal. Dijksteel: 7.5 - was strong throughout with little support. Pratley: 6.5 - apart from a terrible sliding tackle that nearly led to a goal, solly cut it out before it became a goal, he did ok. Pearce: 8 - solid. no nonsense (apart from once where he stuttered when it came to clearing the ball) Solly: 7.5 - did well out of position. Reeves: 6 - did well to keep the ball in to lead to the penalty. tried a few things but not a lot worked, especially set pieces. Aribo: 6 - ok first half. went missing for long stretches of the second. poor first touch at times. Cullen: 6.5 - playing too deep. reckon he could do well passing the ball further forward. Fosu-Henry: 4 - very poor compared to what we are used to from him before the injury. seemed to play in the middle which didn't help. Taylor: 6.5 - on the wing too much and cynically taken out when taking on defenders. some poor first touches which let him down a bit. Grant: 6 - ran around. should of stuck his foot out to score from the great delivery from Taylor in second half.
Steer: 7 Dijksteel: 6 Pratley: 5 Pearce: 6 Solly: 6. Reeves: 7 Aribo: 5 Cullen: 5 Fosu-Henry: 5 Taylor: 6 Grant: 6 Very much an after the Lord Mayors show performance.
Referee: 5 Poor Steer: 6.5 Another good game. Dijksteel: 7 Played well & got forward. Pratley: 6.5 Played well. Pearce: 7.5.Immense MOM. Solly: 6.5 Did well. Reeves: 6.5 Did well. Aribo: 6 Average. Cullen: 7 Played well. Fosu-Henry: 5 Still nowhere near his best. Taylor: 7.5 Playedwell. Grant: 6 Did ok.
Comments
Steer: 6.5
Dijksteel: 7
Pratley: 6.5
Pearce: 6.5
Solly: 6.5
Reeves: 7.5
Aribo: 6
Cullen: 6
Fosu-Henry: 5.5
Taylor: 6.5
Grant: 6
Steer: 6 - Very average, but no chance with the goal
Dijksteel: 7 - Solid once more
Pratley: 7 (MoM) - Did well in his battle with Mackie, though tired near the end
Pearce: 6.5 - Much better on the left, and decent again
Solly: 5.5 - Did OK until Whyte came on then went missing
Reeves: 7 - Looks good on the ball and won the pen with a great bit of play (even if he might then have dived?)
Aribo: 6.5 - Starts well but generally fades, and did once more; missed a sitter first half!
Cullen: 6.5 - Cannot fault energy and effort
Fosu-Henry: 5 - Continually flatters, with no end product
Taylor: 5.5 - Overall ineffective, but that might have been because he was being fouled all the time
Grant: 5.5 - Ran well but lost the ball too many times when he shouldn't
Holmes was the best player on the pitch and we did well try close him down most of the time. Nice to see Robbo, and he didn't celebrate their goal at all.
Steer: 6
Dijksteel: 7
Pratley: 6.5
Pearce: 6.5
Solly: 7
Reeves: 7.5
Aribo: 7.5
Cullen: 7
Fosu-Henry: 6
Taylor: 6.5
Grant: 6
Steer: 6.5
Dijksteel: 6
Pratley: 6
Pearce: 6
Solly: 7
Reeves: 7.5
Aribo: 6
Cullen: 6.5
Fosu-Henry: 5
Taylor: 7
Grant: 6
Steer: 6
Dijksteel: 5
Pratley: 5
Pearce: 5
Solly: 6.5
Reeves: 7.5
Aribo: 6
Cullen: 7
Fosu-Henry: 4
Taylor: 7
Grant: 4.5
Steer: 5 not much to do but distribution poor
Dijksteel: 7 best of a bad bunch
Pratley: 7 did well in unfamiliar position
Pearce: 7 battled away as usual
Solly: 6 did ok
Reeves: 6 looked most likely but set pieces poor
Aribo: 5 looked tired
Cullen: 6 largely kept Ricky quiet which was his job for this game
Fosu-Henry: 4 looks totally out of sorts
Taylor: 5 tired performance
Grant: 5 a shadow of the threatening player he looked on Saturday
Ward: n/a didn’t add much
Bielik: n/a even in the warm up he looked class, shame he couldn’t come on earlier
Steer: 7
Dijksteel: 7
Pratley: 7
Pearce: 7
Solly: 7
Reeves: 6
Aribo: 6
Cullen: 6
Fosu-Henry: 6
Taylor: 7
Grant: 6
Steer: 5.5
Dijksteel: 6
Pratley: 5
Pearce: 6
Solly: 6
Reeves: 5
Aribo: 5
Cullen: 5
Fosu-Henry: 5
Taylor: 6
Grant: 5
Steer: 6.5 collected the ball well, punting it up into the sky is a bit 90s
Dijksteel: 6 played okay but not a lot going forward
Pratley: 6.5 not bad for a midfielder
Pearce: 7 came out on top in his physical battle
Solly: 7 couple of really key tackles and running into the space ahead of him
Reeves: 6.5 tried and looked like making things happen, but didn't
Aribo: 6.5 again not bad
Cullen: 6 really got around but his first touch seemed to be letting him down a lot
Fosu-Henry: 5.5 looked lively again but lost the ball too much and held onto it too long at times
Taylor: 7 caused them problems all night
Grant: 5.5 didn't quite get into it... it's a 7 if he gets on the end of either of the balls from Ward or Taylor and scores, fine margins but he contributed little
Ward: n/a
Bielik: n/a
Dijksteel: 6
Pratley: 7
Pearce: 6
Solly: 6
Reeves: 7
Aribo: 5
Cullen: 7
Fosu-Henry: 6
Taylor: 7
Grant: 5
Steer: 6 - Could do anything about the goal, but his kicking was shit
Dijksteel: 7 did well and was a good outlet, made good runs and wasn't found several times
Pratley: 6.5 - Did Fine
Pearce: 6.5 - Did Fine
Solly: 6.5 - Fills in pretty well at LB
Reeves: 8 - Best player on the pitch
Aribo: 5.5 - Worst game he has had for us that i've seen, appalling first touch when clean through in the first half
Cullen: 6.5 - was ok if unspectacular
Fosu-Henry: 5.5 struggled
Taylor: 7.5 - good pen and caused some problems, first touch let him down a few times yesterday.
Grant: 5.5 - very very isolated yesterday, barely got a kick
Steer: 5.5
Dijksteel: 6.5
Pratley: 5
Pearce: 6
Solly: 6
Reeves: 6
Aribo: 6
Cullen: 6
Fosu-Henry: 5
Taylor: 6
Grant: 5.5
Steer: 6
Dijksteel: 6.5
Pratley: 8
Pearce: 7.5
Solly: 7
Reeves: 7
Aribo: 6,5
Cullen: 7
Fosu-Henry: 6
Taylor: 7
Grant: 6
Steer: 7 good keeper
Dijksteel: 7 fine game
Pratley: 6.5 did ok. Does silly fouls
Pearce:6.5 ok
Solly: 6.5 doing ok out of position.
Reeves: 6.5 passing better and superb work for pen.
Aribo: 6.5 not as good as Saturday.
Cullen: 6.5 decent.
Fosu-Henry: 6 not quite there this season.
Taylor: 6.5 sublime pass but ugly miskicks as well
Grant: 6.5 worked so hard and did the runs but the passes weren't accurate to him.
Team performance over 90 minutes 5.5
Steer: 7
Dijksteel: 7
Pratley: 6.5
Pearce: 6.5
Solly: 6.5
Reeves: 7.5
Aribo: 6
Cullen: 6
Fosu-Henry: 5
Taylor: 6
Grant: 6
Dijksteel: 7 - looking more composed at right back.
Fossy: 4 - he could get away with his selfishness last year because he was on fire; damp squib though so far this season so needs to play for the team more.
Referee: 2 - better than Saturday's but that's a very low benchmark. Gave far too many soft free-kicks (to both sides) for little/no contact (not that contact implies a foul) thus disrupting the flow of the game but then refused to blow for some cynical shirt-pulling, holding, and a couple of more agricultural challenges. Not sure he could have done anything differently in the build-up to the equaliser, he couldn't have seen that Cullen was in trouble as Ricky was still lying on top of him when Oxford scored.
Steer: 7
Dijksteel: 7
Pratley: 7
Pearce: 7
Solly: 7
Reeves: 7
Aribo: 6
Cullen: 7
Fosu-Henry: 5
Taylor: 7
Grant: 6
All just a bit flat not particularly poor
Steer: 6 - poor distribution but a couple of good saves and punches. don't think he could do anything with the goal.
Dijksteel: 7.5 - was strong throughout with little support.
Pratley: 6.5 - apart from a terrible sliding tackle that nearly led to a goal, solly cut it out before it became a goal, he did ok.
Pearce: 8 - solid. no nonsense (apart from once where he stuttered when it came to clearing the ball)
Solly: 7.5 - did well out of position.
Reeves: 6 - did well to keep the ball in to lead to the penalty. tried a few things but not a lot worked, especially set pieces.
Aribo: 6 - ok first half. went missing for long stretches of the second. poor first touch at times.
Cullen: 6.5 - playing too deep. reckon he could do well passing the ball further forward.
Fosu-Henry: 4 - very poor compared to what we are used to from him before the injury. seemed to play in the middle which didn't help.
Taylor: 6.5 - on the wing too much and cynically taken out when taking on defenders. some poor first touches which let him down a bit.
Grant: 6 - ran around. should of stuck his foot out to score from the great delivery from Taylor in second half.
Steer: 6.5 One reasonable save. Not sure about the goal as had half an eye on Cullen.
Dijksteel: 6.5 Got forward well a few times in the first half
Pratley: 7 Given that he is not a centre half he played well
Pearce: 6.5 Below par especially his fannying and wasting of free kicks
Solly: 7 as Pratley. Out of position and made one goal saving tackle in the box that stood out.
Reeves: 6.5 Big improvement on last season's model but just lacks something for me. Perhaps I'm too harsh.
Aribo: 7 Faded in the second half but did some good things in the first.
Cullen: 7.5 Unglamorous role but he plays it well and on a generally poor night my MOM
Fosu-Henry: 6.5 Not great by his former standards but easy to forget he was out a long time. Hopefully will get back to his best.
Taylor: 7 Worked hard. Extra .5 for putting away the penalty
Grant: 6.5 Made the runs but fed off scraps and less.
Ward: n/a
Bielik: n/a
Dijksteel: 6
Pratley: 5
Pearce: 6
Solly: 6.
Reeves: 7
Aribo: 5
Cullen: 5
Fosu-Henry: 5
Taylor: 6
Grant: 6
Very much an after the Lord Mayors show performance.
Steer: 7
Dijksteel: 7
Pratley: 7
Pearce: 7
Solly: 7
Reeves: 5
Aribo: 6
Cullen: 8
Fosu-Henry: 4
Taylor: 8
Grant: 5
Ward: n/a
Bielik: n/a
Steer: 6.5 Another good game.
Dijksteel: 7 Played well & got forward.
Pratley: 6.5 Played well.
Pearce: 7.5.Immense MOM.
Solly: 6.5 Did well.
Reeves: 6.5 Did well.
Aribo: 6 Average.
Cullen: 7 Played well.
Fosu-Henry: 5 Still nowhere near his best.
Taylor: 7.5 Playedwell.
Grant: 6 Did ok.
Steer: 7
Dijksteel: 8
Pratley: 7
Pearce: 7
Solly: 6.5
Reeves: 7.5
Aribo: 5
Cullen: 7
Fosu-Henry: 4
Taylor: 7
Grant: 5