Agreed. Wagner's teams are always hard to play against but last night despite
them taking total control in the 2nd half, Miesler had nothing to do. It was
only a bit of panic late on in our defence that caused concern.
Also, I don't think I've ever seen a keeper go up for a free kick ? and why on
earth didn't the ref play advantage when we broke - worst decision ever as it
was a certain 2 nil.
Think Gruev and Kamara together are too defensive. Gruev's playing the Philips
role in front of the back four and frequently drops into the backline and
Kamara gets through some good work but is predominantly a DM.
I criticised Rutter as a no 9 (he isn't) but he's certainly finding his role as
a 10. Great to watch. Ok, most things didn't come off last night but I love to
see a player with confidence who can step past people with ease. Love watching
him.
Bamford is our best no 9. Didn't have a great game but scored his goal and ran
around a lot. He should have been in the team earlier in the season.
Hope Archie's injury isn't serious because he's been the player of the season
for me and whilst he's done great a right back, I can't help think that he
needs to be in midfield ?
Plymouth will be interesting. We've got a few knocks but we're on such a good
run, I'd play the first XI and smash em and move on.
On Thursday, 25 January 2024 at 10:50:59 GMT, nattan--- via Leedslist
<[email protected]> wrote:
A hard fought and forgettable match but another 3 pts - points we need to have
any chance of automatic promotion. They were a strange team , they had huge
periods of possession especially at the start of the second half, but seemed
content to just keep the ball a la Japp Stams Reading a few seasons ago, and
not attempt to do anything with it. In fact during their longest period of
possession it was us who had the only shot, a tame effort by Summerville after
we took the ball off them and attacked on the break They had one real chance
of note all game , right on the stroke of half time with a good cross from
their right which led to Archie Gray marking 2 players , luckily the one it
fell to totally fluffed his kick. That apart they offered nothing but looked
comfortable on the ball and made it hard for us. So overall it was fairly
boring with lots of sideways passing but glimpses of sublime skill and flicks
by Georginio and Summerville made it watchable, and the one nik scoreline kept
it tense, a second at any stage would have been game over.Our goal on 15
minutes was a worthy match winner -Georginio ( who has great work rate to go
with his skills) won the ball, fed James who put in a lovely floated cross to
the back post and Bamford headed home - 4 in 5 for him now. He had another shot
pulled wide, Georginio had a shot saved as did Firpo, Summerville had another
that just went the wrong side of the post, Anthony had a great chance but
dawdled and was blocked, as we created plenty of half chances but could not get
a second to lut it to bed.Still a vital 3 points and if we can beat Bristol on
Friday night next week we go up to second albeit the other will have games in
hand
Dave
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