Two very average league one teams huffing and puffing in a poor game.
If Rak Saki is the answer god knows what the question was.
"Who can score twice and set up two goals in eight games?"
His decision making still needs work, and sometimes he dribbles down blind alleys, but he's been one of our best players (damning with faint praise, I know) this season.
As they're saying the photo isn't conclusive as it could be after the goalie reached for it. Tough one for the officials to be certain though, can't give it if they're not.
As they said on Comms, it looks like he's starting to move the ball back toward him so it might not be the best image. But it's really close and without goaline technology, it's really hard to give that.
2 up front. 3 attacking mids. 2 attacking fullbacks. 20 minutes. Most of the ball. No shots of notes.
Says all you need to know.
If only football was that easy, put out attacking players and dominate instantly.
That’s the point though… we were dominating but despite having lots of “talent” on the pitch, we cannot create shooting opportunities. And when we do we don’t shoot.
Lack of tempo, careless final balls, bad decisions, passing instead of shooting. Lots of talk of inadequate players, wrong formations, but those are all mentality problems. We have to do better.
There will be no shocked faces in the away end if we go in 1-0 down again - Lincoln already getting back on top of this game in the last 5 minutes.
We’ve been struggling for form, realistically we’re not going to switch formation and create multiple quality chances inside 20 minutes. The league winners won’t even do that every game.
No, but there’s a middle ground between lots of chances and no chances. And this is not a problem that has only just started happening, and unfortunately, despite looking more comfortable for longer into this match, I don’t see much sign the problems are being fixed - the passing is still too slow, the final ball has been no better, the players are still reluctant to shoot. I don’t think any of that criticism is unfair. Today has been better than last week, so far, but it’s all a bit meaningless until we start doing better in those key areas.
I’m not saying the issues have been fixed. I’d like us to have created more but with the chances we’ve had we could and probably should be winning. We’re probably not going to turn this form around by suddenly winning games 2/3/4-0, more likely we’ll need to grind out results. That usually means good and bad spells in games, sometimes needing time to grow into it. I don’t disagree with the criticism I just don’t think it’s realistic to expect a complete turnaround 20 minutes into a game.
We agree here Scoham. I don’t expect a dramatic turnaround, but I need to see a bit more from them before I’ll start to feel like we’re improving in the right direction. A couple of wins and some confidence will help. Ill be delighted with a ground out 1-0.
Leyburn's looks over to me, and then the keeper drags it back. They need to pause the replay as the keeper gets to the ball and you can see it. Shame. Played OK first half without creating enough.
Like Egbo, however he's very slow to track back. Stockly much better in a two... who knew?! Dobson getting stuck in. Fraser playing well but has been caught out a couple of times.
We have had issues with this ref before .. today he bottled it and gone off after having a shocker
we should be two up … people moan and groan about managers , owners etc etc but there nothing you can do about that performance from the official today
We have had issues with this ref before .. today he bottled it and gone off after having a shocker
we should be two up … people moan and groan about managers , owners etc etc but there nothing you can do about that performance from the official today
yeah they're the reason we're a bottom half league 1 side. its all a bloody conspiracy!
2 up front. 3 attacking mids. 2 attacking fullbacks. 20 minutes. Most of the ball. No shots of notes.
Says all you need to know.
If only football was that easy, put out attacking players and dominate instantly.
That’s the point though… we were dominating but despite having lots of “talent” on the pitch, we cannot create shooting opportunities. And when we do we don’t shoot.
Lack of tempo, careless final balls, bad decisions, passing instead of shooting. Lots of talk of inadequate players, wrong formations, but those are all mentality problems. We have to do better.
There will be no shocked faces in the away end if we go in 1-0 down again - Lincoln already getting back on top of this game in the last 5 minutes.
We’ve been struggling for form, realistically we’re not going to switch formation and create multiple quality chances inside 20 minutes. The league winners won’t even do that every game.
No, but there’s a middle ground between lots of chances and no chances. And this is not a problem that has only just started happening, and unfortunately, despite looking more comfortable for longer into this match, I don’t see much sign the problems are being fixed - the passing is still too slow, the final ball has been no better, the players are still reluctant to shoot. I don’t think any of that criticism is unfair. Today has been better than last week, so far, but it’s all a bit meaningless until we start doing better in those key areas.
I’m not saying the issues have been fixed. I’d like us to have created more but with the chances we’ve had we could and probably should be winning. We’re probably not going to turn this form around by suddenly winning games 2/3/4-0, more likely we’ll need to grind out results. That usually means good and bad spells in games, sometimes needing time to grow into it. I don’t disagree with the criticism I just don’t think it’s realistic to expect a complete turnaround 20 minutes into a game.
I thought the problem was we were creating chances, just not taking them?
No I didn't actually think that but people keep banging on about xG.
We have had issues with this ref before .. today he bottled it and gone off after having a shocker
we should be two up … people moan and groan about managers , owners etc etc but there nothing you can do about that performance from the official today
2 up front. 3 attacking mids. 2 attacking fullbacks. 20 minutes. Most of the ball. No shots of notes.
Says all you need to know.
If only football was that easy, put out attacking players and dominate instantly.
That’s the point though… we were dominating but despite having lots of “talent” on the pitch, we cannot create shooting opportunities. And when we do we don’t shoot.
Lack of tempo, careless final balls, bad decisions, passing instead of shooting. Lots of talk of inadequate players, wrong formations, but those are all mentality problems. We have to do better.
There will be no shocked faces in the away end if we go in 1-0 down again - Lincoln already getting back on top of this game in the last 5 minutes.
We’ve been struggling for form, realistically we’re not going to switch formation and create multiple quality chances inside 20 minutes. The league winners won’t even do that every game.
No, but there’s a middle ground between lots of chances and no chances. And this is not a problem that has only just started happening, and unfortunately, despite looking more comfortable for longer into this match, I don’t see much sign the problems are being fixed - the passing is still too slow, the final ball has been no better, the players are still reluctant to shoot. I don’t think any of that criticism is unfair. Today has been better than last week, so far, but it’s all a bit meaningless until we start doing better in those key areas.
I’m not saying the issues have been fixed. I’d like us to have created more but with the chances we’ve had we could and probably should be winning. We’re probably not going to turn this form around by suddenly winning games 2/3/4-0, more likely we’ll need to grind out results. That usually means good and bad spells in games, sometimes needing time to grow into it. I don’t disagree with the criticism I just don’t think it’s realistic to expect a complete turnaround 20 minutes into a game.
I thought the problem was we were creating chances, just not taking them?
No I didn't actually think that but people keep banging on about xG.
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His decision making still needs work, and sometimes he dribbles down blind alleys, but he's been one of our best players (damning with faint praise, I know) this season.
As close to a goal without it being a goal you can get.
be delighted with a ground out 1-0.
Like Egbo, however he's very slow to track back. Stockly much better in a two... who knew?! Dobson getting stuck in. Fraser playing well but has been caught out a couple of times.
I would
we should be two up … people moan and groan about managers , owners etc etc but there nothing you can do about that performance from the official today
No I didn't actually think that but people keep banging on about xG.
Meat Pie Sausage Roll
Air Raid Sirens still no goals.