Post by davidm on Feb 5, 2017 9:04:58 GMT
I couldn’t be bothered commenting last night when I got in. I was so disillusioned.
Another really awful performance. We really should have lost.
The teamsheet bothered me. We basically just replaced Clough and Henry with Long and Morais and chose to make Thorpe the loan player to be left out.
Le Fondre on the bench – what a waste.
Somehow, I naively thought that getting Le Fondre might make a change of tactics. How wrong I was. Moxey was a very late replacement for Taylor who had warmed up.
The match started similar to a lot of away matches (like Chesterfield) were we passed the ball about nicely for 10 minutes but created little and then we fade.
Morais went off like a rocket and won a corner within 20 seconds but, as usual, little came from our bright start.
From then on, the game just faded. MK Dons were dreadful. They couldn’t string any passes together and were there for the taking.
We had one brilliant attack from defending ac corner where Alnwick caught the ball from a corner and immediately threw it out right. I thought it was Morais who ran the length of the pitch and centred to Long who headed wide. It was a good chance and our only real chance of the match.
We got a massive amount of luck with our goal. The last kick of the half when Spearing curled in a free kick which evaded everyone and finished in the net. An absolute fluke.
So could we take advantage and dominate in the second half. Not at all.
We were dreadful all through the second half. No attacking, terrible passing and endless big hoofs upfield which came straight back.
By the stage Clayton had replaced the tiring Morais and I initially point the finger at him for their goal. He had twice stood and left the opposing full back gallop into space. He was just not aware of any defensive duties. The third time Moxey made an absolute mess of a relatively simple headed clearance which left the ball bobbling about. Plenty of opportunities to clear but we were rooted to the spot and they volleyed in an equaliser.
Things just did not improve.
We stood off all of the second half and a better team would have thrashed us.
We were unlucky when Wilson did his hamstring 2 minutes after we used our last sub but we survived the last 10 minutes with 10 men OK. Spearing actually created a half chance very late on but, as usual, we have no bodies in the box to take advantage.
Things are deteriorating badly as there is now absolutely no style to our play. We are 100% a big boot boring team who are getting points by desperate defending.
You would have thought that if out main tactic is to hoof the ball up to Madine, we would have worked out a system whereby other players would get up with him for the knock downs. But No, he is absolutely isolated.
It is awful to watch.
We now have 2 successive which we must win as we then have the horrendous run of 9 away games out of 12. We won’t get many points from those 9 games if we play like this.
Alnwick - 8 One outstanding save in the first half (MK Dons only attack) and some excellent catches from corners.
Wilson - 5 A few really pointless fouls and a booking.
Beevers - 5 Caught out a few times by the breaks of the MK Dons attacks and just a load of hopeless hoofs upfield. Really off the boil.
Wheater - 7 Very steady. Won most challenges.
Moxey - 4 Reasonable first half but terrible attempted clearance for the goal. He is just an accident waiting to happen.
Spearing - 7 Passing is still erratic but one of few who looked interested. Drove the team on even from right back in the last 10 minutes.
Derik - 5 Disappointing that he couldn’t get his passing going.
Long - 5 One header in the first half but other than that just nothing. Stuck out on the right wing to little effect.
Vela - 5 Couldn’t get involved at all. Looked to be in a sulk.
Morais - 6 Early promise. Presumably substituted through lack of fitness.
Madine - 4 Won a couple of early headers but no one around him to pick them up. He is so isolated up front, it is ridiculous and he just got worse as the game wore on.
Clayton - 4 Very poor defensively. Our left side was wide open all second half. No attacking to note. Did he ever get in the box?
Solomon - 5 Not much involvement.
Le Fondre - 5 No chance to do anything but he did not play up front when he came on. He went into Vela’s position. What a waste.
Manager - 3 Awful big boot football. Terrible tactics.
Another really awful performance. We really should have lost.
The teamsheet bothered me. We basically just replaced Clough and Henry with Long and Morais and chose to make Thorpe the loan player to be left out.
Le Fondre on the bench – what a waste.
Somehow, I naively thought that getting Le Fondre might make a change of tactics. How wrong I was. Moxey was a very late replacement for Taylor who had warmed up.
The match started similar to a lot of away matches (like Chesterfield) were we passed the ball about nicely for 10 minutes but created little and then we fade.
Morais went off like a rocket and won a corner within 20 seconds but, as usual, little came from our bright start.
From then on, the game just faded. MK Dons were dreadful. They couldn’t string any passes together and were there for the taking.
We had one brilliant attack from defending ac corner where Alnwick caught the ball from a corner and immediately threw it out right. I thought it was Morais who ran the length of the pitch and centred to Long who headed wide. It was a good chance and our only real chance of the match.
We got a massive amount of luck with our goal. The last kick of the half when Spearing curled in a free kick which evaded everyone and finished in the net. An absolute fluke.
So could we take advantage and dominate in the second half. Not at all.
We were dreadful all through the second half. No attacking, terrible passing and endless big hoofs upfield which came straight back.
By the stage Clayton had replaced the tiring Morais and I initially point the finger at him for their goal. He had twice stood and left the opposing full back gallop into space. He was just not aware of any defensive duties. The third time Moxey made an absolute mess of a relatively simple headed clearance which left the ball bobbling about. Plenty of opportunities to clear but we were rooted to the spot and they volleyed in an equaliser.
Things just did not improve.
We stood off all of the second half and a better team would have thrashed us.
We were unlucky when Wilson did his hamstring 2 minutes after we used our last sub but we survived the last 10 minutes with 10 men OK. Spearing actually created a half chance very late on but, as usual, we have no bodies in the box to take advantage.
Things are deteriorating badly as there is now absolutely no style to our play. We are 100% a big boot boring team who are getting points by desperate defending.
You would have thought that if out main tactic is to hoof the ball up to Madine, we would have worked out a system whereby other players would get up with him for the knock downs. But No, he is absolutely isolated.
It is awful to watch.
We now have 2 successive which we must win as we then have the horrendous run of 9 away games out of 12. We won’t get many points from those 9 games if we play like this.
Alnwick - 8 One outstanding save in the first half (MK Dons only attack) and some excellent catches from corners.
Wilson - 5 A few really pointless fouls and a booking.
Beevers - 5 Caught out a few times by the breaks of the MK Dons attacks and just a load of hopeless hoofs upfield. Really off the boil.
Wheater - 7 Very steady. Won most challenges.
Moxey - 4 Reasonable first half but terrible attempted clearance for the goal. He is just an accident waiting to happen.
Spearing - 7 Passing is still erratic but one of few who looked interested. Drove the team on even from right back in the last 10 minutes.
Derik - 5 Disappointing that he couldn’t get his passing going.
Long - 5 One header in the first half but other than that just nothing. Stuck out on the right wing to little effect.
Vela - 5 Couldn’t get involved at all. Looked to be in a sulk.
Morais - 6 Early promise. Presumably substituted through lack of fitness.
Madine - 4 Won a couple of early headers but no one around him to pick them up. He is so isolated up front, it is ridiculous and he just got worse as the game wore on.
Clayton - 4 Very poor defensively. Our left side was wide open all second half. No attacking to note. Did he ever get in the box?
Solomon - 5 Not much involvement.
Le Fondre - 5 No chance to do anything but he did not play up front when he came on. He went into Vela’s position. What a waste.
Manager - 3 Awful big boot football. Terrible tactics.