Totally gutted - absolutely chin on the floor time, I cannot remember I was as down as this after a game - and yet overall we played well and could and should have won First half we were almost as good as we were at Donny. We controlled things and looked solid at the back -they were kept to one big goalmouth scramble which we cleared in the end due to some proper desperate defending - defending which we were incapable of a few weeks ago. At the other end we were creating chances and looking sharp. Half way through the first half we got the reward we desereved when a cross into the box found its way to O'Dea who volleyed home with some style and for the first time ever the chants of O'D , O;D went round the sparse(ish) and very subdued and quiet crowd. We looked on waiting for us to double the lead and it nearly came when O'D went forward again and missed with a free header. Then came the miss of the season - Keogh linked up well with McCormack and fed it to him on a plate - 3 yards out , right in the middle of an empty net - it really was one of those that has you saying and meaning "I could have scored that". But horror of horrors,top scorer and on fire McCormack put it over - amazing miss.So 1 0 at half time and we looked comfortable. We came out and carried on where we started but as the second half went on we defended deeper and deeper but for once we looked good doing it - we sat in front of them in two banks of four and just kept taking the ball off them. We looked like a team that can defend a one goal lead.Grayson took off the front two and brought on Becchio and Forsell but it was a move that did not work - they kept straying offside and failed to keep the ball.Then the board went up - 3 more minutes to keep going - then total disaster. The ball came to Becchio and he blasted wide - wastes a few seconds I thought - but the keeper took, what I thought was going to be a deadball from the centre of their half , the flag had been up - again. A long punt was knocked first time to the wing where the winger hit it first time for a very speculative and spectacular shot - no chance of scoring from there, but Rachubka, who had been solid enough till then, somehow contrived to not only drop and fumble the ball but spilled it right to the feet of the Coventry player who tapped it home.We barely had time to kick off , so far into injury time was it - disaster Like i say I was gutted but having seen the tables I now feel a bit better - 3 points from our game in hand and we are joint second - funny old game Dave _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected]
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