Wycombe W v Bolton W…. match thread

Exactly. Every one ****ed up🙄. Surely if you haven't got a goalscorer and you rarely get quality goals from open play, you would practice and practice set pieces? Give me strength.🤬

What a poor poor performance!

Can’t score and can’t defend so it doesn’t matter how much possession you have, you will lose. A typical away performance – is that 4 or 5 successive away defeats now?

This really was our normal away performance – loads of passing, little or no chances created.

Wycombe’s policy was to press our defenders and play high balls into our defence. Almost kick and rush!

We, yet again, nearly conceded when we messed up a goal kick. Dixon to Aimson, Aimson to Thomason on the edge of the box, Thomason caught in possession, Aimson trips their man for no good reason and we concede a penalty. Dixon makes a good save to keep us in it.

We created little until a loose ball found Afolayan totally clear and he ran on into the box but the goalie dives at his feet and saves. He should have scored. Other than that, Lee miskicked in front of goal and Thomason was just short of connecting well in front of goal.

The rest of the first half was Wycombe launching the ball high. Santos, Aimson and Dixon struggled like mad. Every corner was horrific as the ball flew across the box and Wycombe got their heads on every ball.

In the first half, we had 5 corners and 2 good free kick chances and messed them all up. In fact, we nearly conceded from the second free kick.

Second half, it did not improve. In fact, we just faded away. I said, after about 60 minutes, that you could see what was coming – like most previous away games and come it did. A high ball swung in from the right, Vokes outjumps Baptiste and Dixon stands flatfooted watching it loop into the corner.

And at that stage, we had lost the match.

There was very little fight from the team – no pressing forward. In fact Wycombe should have scored again but Dixon saved well at the player’s feet.

Kachunga messed up a couple of good chances – first by heading weakly at the keeper from a corner and then shooting hopelessly wide from a good break. He really is not up to it, is he?

And ridiculously through this time, Wycombe did more attacking than us. Every corner terrified our defence –the ball flying everywhere in the box. Dixon stays rooting to his line and just watches the panic ensue.

We got 7 minutes extra time but spent a great deal of it passing between Santos, Aimson and Dixon – just stupid.



The manager will say that we controlled the game as usual but we are toothless and cannot defend so defeat really becomes inevitable



POOR POOR POOR





Marks:-

Dixon - 4 Mixed bag. Saved a penalty, made a great one on one save at 1-0 BUT it was mass panic every time the ball came in. He does not boss his area. Every corner was panic stations. His flat footedness for the goal was poor too

Baptiste - 5 Outjumped for the goal but overall he was reasonable

John - 3 So out of form. His forward passing was abysmal and defensively, he was poor. Plus some awful corners.

Santos - 4 Struggled against Wycombe’s policy of launching high balls forwards

Aimson - 4 Again, a struggle. Massively at fault for the penalty

Williams - 5 Injured. He was OK up to then but only OK – no domination

Lee - 5 Generally OK but we couldn’t get at Wycombe

Thomason - 5 Same as Lee – we couldn’t dominate

Afolayan - 5 Missed one golden chance and another half chance when the keeper got him each time. Still looks sluggish

Isgrove - 5 Reasonable but created little

Kachunga - 3 Awful. Some good running but an awful shot when clean through. He is hopeless

Johnston - 4 Played as Williams replacement as defensive midfield. Hardly saw him

Amaechi - 3 Nothing to see from him at all

If someone like Mitch Henry cant get 10 mins run out this week over both games we should save money on tracksuits and scrap any kind of academy.

Even with Baka and Doyle thought we needed two more strikers. Ridicolous says Evatt. Well we went in with Doyle,34 and a poor record outside 4th tier and Bakayoko who won promotion in this league so was in a strong side but didnt get goals.

Sure Ainsworth will tell us how great we are and ruffle our hair, and Evatt will in return declare Wycombe as the finest football team in the land.

My verdict would be that it isnt the final nail in the coffin for Evatt but is a part of the construction of the coffin
A hinge maybe.

5 games to save yourself. In my head i already think he won't or cant so for me I would get rid but understand why people dont feel that way. They have faith, I dont.

critism of Dixon drives me mad....by those who have obviously never coached,,,,,he saved us several times in the game....that type of winning header is probly the most difficult to save looping over the keeper...look at it again baptiste dindt jump and turned his back

THe loss of Jones has been an important factor in our decline, and so could an extended loss of Williams, who, however, has not been playing as defensively as I would like this season to cover the weaknesses behind. The other big miss is caused by Evatt shipping out all of the academy players developed under David Lee on loan, so that there is no-one decent on the subs bench able to come on and show how things can be changed. I am sure we have better resources than Kachunga and Bakayoko, even if they come in different sizes. Equally his dismissal of Gnahoua, who impressed us all with his ability to run at defences, should never have happened. I think Henry was on the bench today and he is capable of running at defences, but wasn't used. In short Evatt is stuck in a mindset of using only the players he has signed or believes he has created and unless he changes it is sure to be his undoing.
A friend of mine confidently backed them for another promotion, putting £50 on at 14-1, and I believed this was a good bet as we started the season pretty brightly. Like many others I don't think there is time to wait for the January window. Ian has to make better use of ALL his resources from now on with no more fudges like playing one of our best attackers in Isgrove at right back, and deciding who is best to play alongside Santos, assuming the latter gets over his bouts of the dithers, while urging John to reproduce the form he showed last season.

this is a strange one....basically the same players started the season playing passing football and dominating games,,,,,,now they look lost,,,and this happened before the injuries to players.......I think its because there are no strong leaders on the pitch
When was the last time you saw a player get a rollicking from another player for making a mistake?