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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 17:08:04 GMT
How much more can us Bolton fans take we win 2-0 away from home and Fleetwood score a late winner so we now have to wait till Sunday knowing that 1 point will be enough unless Fleetwood score 8 goals against Port Vale gosh can we stand it. COYWM
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 22, 2017 17:15:29 GMT
Think we also know that Peterborough can't stop scoring AND they did us at their ground so it would've nice to return the compliment with a thumping Trotters victory.
We all know what happened the last time we played a team beginning with P on the last day of the season at home...
COYWM⚽️⚽️⚽️
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Post by OohMac on Apr 22, 2017 17:42:07 GMT
Think we also know that Peterborough can't stop scoring AND they did us at their ground so it would've nice to return the compliment with a thumping Trotters victory. We all know what happened the last time we played a team beginning with P on the last day of the season at home... COYWM⚽️⚽️⚽️ You suggesting we call up Super John? My message would be clear. Get the ball into the box and ALF will do the rest. At the start of the day I thought draw today and bring it home. A league table very rarely lies at the end of a season. I've never been as serene as the Stoke game. You either deserve it or you don't. Fleetwood have fought tooth and nail to be still in the mix so we need to ask out players if they want it as much as they do? Let's hope they do. |
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Post by riochforthereebok on Apr 22, 2017 18:21:07 GMT
If we'd have beaten Chesterfield or Bury we could be getting pist tonight, but I suppose the 'luck' has to even itself out, if we hadn't sneaked the 3 points with that injury time winner at Southend we could be left hoping for a miracle that Port Vale do the Cod Army at Highbury, so I'd rather be in our camp than theirs
Have to get pist next week instead
COYWM
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Post by davidm on Apr 22, 2017 19:07:22 GMT
We did what we had to do only to be deflated by Fleetwood’s 92nd minute winner.
We must give Fleetwood credit – they keep going and don’t know what defeat is.
The team sheet had surprises in that both Derik and Pratley were missing and our supposed missing link, Madine, was there.
The start was the usual one from us where we flatter to deceive. We had most of the ball but really created nothing.
Their 7 foot centre forward then crunched Karacan and deservedly was booked. Port Vale then got a free kick. It was hit high into the box. Their centre forward couldn’t reach it with his head and stupidly flapped at it with his hand in an attempt to get it in. An obvious second yellow. I was a bit bothered by our players appealing to the ref in unison but it was a definite sending off.
Little else happened in the first half. We couldn’t dominate as we should. Port Vale put all 10 men behind the ball – our spare men were at the back so the half just dawdled to half time.
Second half, Vale put a bit more effort in. They had a couple of long distance shots and then Jerome Tomas, who had wasted his time on the wing in the first, moved into the middle and hit the post from the edge of the box. A lucky let off and we were drifting again against 10 men.
The break came when Le Fondre outpaced their lumbering centre half who just hauled him back wide on the area for a deserved booking.
Morais’ free kick was perfect onto the head of Wheater for the opening goal.
Chaos then took over. Fleetwood were losing 2-1 and we all thought we were up.
A lot of our idiot fans raced onto the pitch which was bad to start with and then goaded the Vale fans who also came onto the pitch. Stewards and our players couldn’t get them off and, rightly, the ref took the players off.
We do have some morons supporting us!
Eventually the match restarted - I have never seen so many policemen along the edge of the pitch at a match - and news of Fleetwood’s equaliser didn’t dampened things but their winner did.
Morais set up Madine to hit in the second goal in the last minute (I think it was the 90th minute but timekeeping was all askew after the pitch invasion) and we just coasted through.
It was not a wonderful performance. It was adequate and the usual bit of a grind.
Before the game I would have settled for any performance as long as we won so I am not complaining.
Defensively, we were sound. Midfield still struggled to create much. We still create by pressure not creative moves. Up front still a struggle.
Will my nerves last for 8 days?
Howard - 6 Not much to do. Caught some high crosses well. Watched a couple of shots whistle past the post. Beaten by one shot which hit the post and almost made an almighty mess of a shot that he almost dropped into the net.
Dervite - 7 Very steady in a solid defence.
Wheater - 8 Solid defending again plus the vital goal.
Beevers - 7 Again good defensive work.
Taylor - 7 Very good up the left side.
Spearing - 7 Busy. Silly needless booking but involved all the time in the match.
Karacan - 5 A bit disappointing. Most of his early passing was backwards. Improved after the break and became more offensive.
Vela - 6 Busy but not dominant enough.
Morais - 6 Quite a bit of the ball. Other than the free kick for the first goal, most of his passes/crosses were not that accurate.
Le Fondre - 6 Difficult day again. We just don’t play the ball on the ground for him.
Madine - 6 Took his late goal well but mainly outjumped and pushed around by Port Vale’s defenders.
Henry - 6 Again brought some control to our game.
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Post by greydad on Apr 22, 2017 19:49:39 GMT
A solid enough performance which adhered to the expected template to a great extent, but today a set piece bore fruit, and a chance in the box was converted. The marks awarded and précis of the match by David M are an accurate reflection of performances, although I thought Henry deserved a 7 for his efforts after coming on. As regards off the field behaviour (well on the field unfortunately) today was another example of the stewarding of large away followings being virtually meaningless...fans congregated at the wall down at the front, they stood in numbers in the aisles and, having chanted repeatedly their intentions to get on the pitch the goal was quickly followed by the 'threatened' invasion. The understandable excitement that is generated in games such as today's is no excuse for the unsavoury scenes witnessed...I sometimes wonder if some followers want to see a return to away fans being treated like cattle, and there were certainly some who seemed more interested in getting at or goading the Vale fans rather than simply celebrating the goal. I love football, love supporting the Wanderers, but will never understand what goes through the minds of some supporters, at Bolton and throughout the leagues.
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