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Post by andyl on Jan 15, 2022 17:31:31 GMT
Firstly the excellent: Kieran Lee! Thought he was inventive, industrious an so good the follow up goal; also Santos's late block
Then the promising: the Jones and Fossey link; one or two passes and general positioning of Morley; and an altogether better fist of defensive midfield pressing and breaking. Also Trafford after a horrible start with way too much risk settled in. Should have held a couple of shots but pounced on a couple of loose balls
Then the just about Ok: Charles 60 min effort and breakaway shot. John going forward at times.
Then the not so good: the endless back passing and back throwing which gave the initiative away continually; Santos, Johnston and Bakayoko aerially- very poor
In general I thought Bakayoko once hard working and virtuous clearly now tutored by Delfouneso was very limp.. But he did at least play a part in the Lee goal and if ever fit and closer centrally to his partner could play some role.
All of which said a win, a precious win.
Trafford 6 Jones 7 Santos 5 Johnston 5 John 6 Williams ( silly booking) 6 Lee 9 Morley 6 Charles 5 Dapo supersub 6)
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Post by davidm on Jan 15, 2022 19:06:52 GMT
What a decent performance that was.
Strangely we were on top in the first half and pushed back in the second when we scored the goals.
We totally changed shape for this game. Halleluiah!! We played a back 3 of Jones, Santos and Johnston with Fossey and John as wing backs. Morley sat deepish alongside Williams with Lee just behind a front 2 of Bakayoko and Charles.
We set off incredibly nervously when the new keeper and the defence messed around ridiculously for the first 5 minutes. Once we had got over that nervousness, we settled quite well. Ipswich had most of the ball for the first 20 minutes but other than a diving Trafford save, we were not troubled and got into the game.
Charles had a good shot well saved and Johnston headed over when well placed.
When we got half time at 0-0, I thought that we had deserved to lead.
Second half Ipswich pressed and we slowed down. The first half, we had played with some pace but second half we drifted into our annoying walking pace style of football. Ipswich had more of the ball but, other than a few scrambles, did not harm us.
We had the occasional break orchestrated mainly by Lee who was playing pretty forward. He started another move with led to Morley shooting from outside the box. The keeper couldn’t hold the shot and Lee scored. It was a good take by Lee as there was no time to trap the ball. I think the goalie should have held Morley’s shot but I will take what we can get.
Ipswich pushed forward and we were under pressure. We then broke and Morley lobbed a ball to Afolayan who was clearly offside. Afolayan initially made no attempt to get the ball and the officials presumably waved play on so Afolayan challenged the defender who made an almighty mess of it and effectively gave the ball to Afolayan who took a good shot to score. Again, if I was Ipswich, I would have been annoyed.
Overall, a good performance. A definite more positive shape to the team which looked better attackwise.
Marks:-
Trafford - 7 Apart from the first 5minutes, when chaos reigned with ridiculous passing, he was good
Jones - 8 Very good playing on the right of a back three.
Santos - 7 Much better than lately. A couple of hiccups when he got turned but much better. Some good blocks.
Johnston - 6 OK except for some atrocious passing out of defence
Fossey - 7 Good again. Attacked well as a wing back. Seemed to tire in the second half.
John - 6 Played OK as a wing back
Williams - 6 Not as dominant as earlier in the season. There is just something slightly missing with him.
Morley - 7 A good debut. A couple of misplaced passes but involved throughout.
Lee - 9 Very good. Played just behind the front two. Took his goal well as he had to hit it first time.
Bakayoko - 6 Probably his best game for the club but still lacking in ball control and needs to win more headers for a man his size.
Charles - 7 Very busy. Brought a great save from the Ipswich keeper in the first half.
Afolayan - 7 Took his goal very well. Played well in a wandering position.
Delfouneso
Aimson
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Post by realtrottersforever on Jan 15, 2022 21:50:07 GMT
well I did say i was never going along with the relegation threats. next fixture suddenly looks winnable too. funny how that happens like that. like a striker in good or bad form. in good form, the goal looks massive,
in bad form it looks the size of a postage stamp. not that 1 win necessarily means good form but it helps.
big risk to play the rookie keeper. my god, Ipswich were poor. they'll never make promotion playing like that. 2 good strikers on paper in Norwood and Bonne.
rookie keeper facing them, and a hitherto dodgy defence, and you hardly test them. credit to us for some better screening of the defence.
this new keeper saves ratio is atrocious. way worse than Dixon's. the clean sheet will give him confidence, but it'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
Morley seemed to do well.
for once, we lose the possession battle by a mile..just 36%. yet wins the shots on target battle 4-3. although for a long stretch ...73rd min ..we'd only had 1 on target..(.by Dion.)
last season the televised home game vs Salford , when we won 2-0, we only had 35% possession too. and did fairly well at Rotherham playing with less possession.
can't see it catching on though. I don't know whether we intentionally sat back or they pushed us back.
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Post by thegrud1 on Jan 16, 2022 11:19:48 GMT
OK here goes
Trafford gave me several heart attacks for the 1st 15 mins....playing out of defence and putting the recieving player under instant presseure.
what impressed me is he learned fast that varying it kicking long and playing from the back was best !!!!
We seemed to mix it at the back...a 3 then a 4......Fossey has a great engine
MJ was ok..maybe not back to his best after his injury,,,but still good
Baka as a striker is his best position for me...leave him there let him settle in
Charles looks mobile ,,once fully fit he will add to the team
Morley did OK ...not great but hes very mobile ...seems box to box
Santos is too casual for me,,,,but can pass a good diagonal
Afalyon got the kick up the backside he needed
The rest all did well a really good team performance
MOM.....there were a few for me
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Post by realtrottersforever on Jan 16, 2022 12:16:19 GMT
well done to the EFL show on Quest for bringing up IE's quotes about taking us to the PL in 5 years. even his mate Olly publically disagreeing with him AGAIN, and telling him to keep it to himself and the players...just like he thought when IE said we were the best team in the League.
his supporters tell us he's only a young manager and he's still learning. still not learnt to keep his trap shut. the wild statements are getting worse not better. how long til Champions lge win now then ??
what a ridiculous BN article we had defending the "best team in lge" quotes. Evatt saying he doesn't regret saying them. and they were just motivational...fair enough..BUT HOW DID THAT GO THEN. that part totally over-looked in the article.
that 5 years line is just a plea for time from Shazza, and she's as blind faith about him, as he is about Santos and others, so i fully expect him to be around for the long term no matter what. she believes in giving managers time..fair enough but where was Keith Hills time or Tobias Phoenix..... like OM said...KH had 24 hr's to sign the left overs that other clubs didn't want. Phoenix has a bad window......Evatt to Shazza..get him out....yes Sir, 3 bags full sir. ... Evatt had bad window in summer. Shazza...let him have 6 or 7 more players in next window to put it right. IAN Evatt 008 LICENCE TO FAIL.... 008 being his typical points tally around November !!
I also love some of the wider fan base rating of mangers compared with some of our previous ones or at other clubs. Evatt with his promotion from lge 2 is a genius. & is way better than Keith hill with his 2 promotions from lge 2 apparently.
Megson with his 2 promotions from the Championship is hopeless...yet achievements at at FAR HIGHER level, but not with BWFC ,so they don't count obviously ?!?! . Coyle promotion from Championship playing good attacking football. again not with us so it doesn't count..so he's useless. even Freedman sort of had a promotion with Palace...although he left them to take charge of us part way through. always said at the time, that was awful judgement.
how much due diligence did he do, to move to us with our debt issues, then do nothing but non-stop moan about it ,after his first little transfer spree season when we bet the ranch on promotion and lost ( blackpool fiasco etc ).
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