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Post by davidm on Feb 1, 2022 11:16:45 GMT
After Saturday’s epic performance, let’s hope we can put on another good show tonight.
Not expecting a major performance like Saturday but I hope we have now got into a positive winning style of football.
This will be difficult – look at Cambridge’s results since the turn of the year:-
Date Comp Opponent Venue Score
Sat 29/01 L1 Fleetwood Town Away 1 1 D
Tue 25/01 EFLT Rotherham Away 1 1 D
Sat 22/01 L1 Crewe Home 1 0 W
Tue 18/01 L1 Doncaster Home 3 1 W
Sat 15/01 L1 Lincoln City Away 1 0 W
Tue 11/01 EFLT Portsmouth Home 2 1 W
Sat 08/01 FA Cup Newcastle Away 1 0 W
Mon 03/01 L1 Portsmouth Home 0 0 D
Having said that, we must be on a roll.
Same starting 11 presumably and a good win – 2-1
Not wanting to get too excited but if we win tonight, we go up to 11th in the league!!!
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Post by whitesince63 on Feb 1, 2022 13:04:41 GMT
I personally don’t care about Cambridges results, I’m totally confident that we now have the strongest squad in L1 and will continue our run up the table. Although we’d move up to 11th with a 2-0 win we’d still be a fair way off the play offs, so if we do seriously want to have a go at the top six, only wins will do, none of this draw will do stuff. We did it last year and in fairness still nearly messed it up at the end losing winnable games, so it is possible we can do it. So as for tonight I’ll go for a 2-1 win as I’m not sure we can continue keeping clean sheets.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Feb 1, 2022 15:57:46 GMT
4-0
Come On You Whites ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
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Post by OohMac on Feb 1, 2022 16:50:06 GMT
Guess theres no point in not going for it, may as well show ambition and aim to get there and if we miss out we miss out, but take that into our stride for next season.
I just think L2 was garbage last season. League one has some bad teams but is so much more competative and to ask us to go on a run is a much harder task.
Weve still not seen what happens when the chips are down? Do heads drop again. Ok weve got a few new players since but we were pretty fortunate against Shrewsbury by all accounts and Sunderland was a brilliant anomaly.
This will be a good test tonight. Remember playing Cambridge last season. Was the performance that showed we were undeniably the best team in the league at that time. 2-1 win but should have been 4 or 5 nil. Gilks gifted them one to make it look like an even game.
Think theres the danger of tonight being after the lord mayors show. I'm not expecting another six lets put it that way. I'll go 2-1 again.
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Post by chip on Feb 1, 2022 19:26:59 GMT
At work so I’ll miss most of the game so I’ll go 2-1 stay safe one and all COYWM
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Post by chip on Feb 1, 2022 19:33:03 GMT
At work so I’ll miss most of the game so I’ll go 2-1 stay safe one and all COYWM
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Post by realtrottersforever on Feb 1, 2022 19:43:00 GMT
well, Cambridge are unbeaten in their last 5 lge games. but a lot of those were the bottom 5 or 6 teams. nevertheless, that gives a certain amount of confidence, and they certainly did better against them than our run against the dud teams, as i like to call them.
Bolton 2.0 or is it about Bolton mark 7.0 with 7 signings. ridiculous number, especially when all 7 are pretty much first teamers. there aren't any purely for the future like Jan Gregus, or Yannick Bastos, or Faal, or Woolery etc . normally in a tfr window you're happy if you get one for each line of the team..defence, midfield & attack. credit to FV. They've been very sneaky about keeping the big money under wraps. I do have a real flyer of an outside bet from the start of the season on us to go up. that looked a dead duck, but it may well be flying again now. the limited odds i got suggested the bookies quite liked the look of us too, even then. it's not even the money with the In's. when you're shifting people like Doyle on a decent contract and get no fee back, that takes dosh too.
meanwhile Sunderland sign 39yr old has-beens like Defoe. weird one that. who even signed him. i checked out the Sunderland twitter feed expecting it to be slated. yet they were surprisingly positive about it. probably because of a previous good spell at the club for them while they were in the Prem. i can't really picture him as a Sunderland player, i must admit. I think you can file that one under Eidur Gudjohnsen....good during his 1st spell for us.
less so about the 2nd spell, and i'd expect similar results with this one. only scored 2 for Rangers this season & only 4 last season. that's when you knew the budget restrictions had really hit Lennon hard..having to bring in Heskey and Eidur. you hoped for the best, but it looked pretty desperate on paper. Lennon had been really good up to then. this is why it's so much about resources. Avram Grant led Chelsea to a champions lge final, Robbie Di matteo even won the Champions lge final with Chelsea . yet few hark on about them as top managers. Evatt at the helm leaves me with a similar type feeling as certain Utd fans had with Solskjaer in charge. doesn't stop you from getting up the league when you're getting this level of backing though etc etc
back to tonight. no Hoolahan for them. no Ironside. good keeper in Mitov. i'll go 2-0 then. they are the type of side we shouldn't have even been behind last season IMHO. manager doing a good job getting a shift out of a very average side.
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Post by Pedro on Feb 1, 2022 20:36:17 GMT
This is FANTASTIC compared to just a few weeks ago!
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Post by realtrottersforever on Feb 1, 2022 21:04:00 GMT
some good balanced punditry by Tony Philiskirk on Radio Manc ( co-comm). gushing about the build up play. but he's a bit concerned about the lack of first contact on set pieces ( both ends). he said -> we've had loads but probably only had 1st contact in 1 of 10. they had 1 corner and nearly scored off it. from what he's saying it's the first time he's seen us live all season. very quick to pick up on the issues. wonder how he'd feel in a years time with the issue still not addressed.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Feb 1, 2022 21:31:05 GMT
Get innnnnnnn
2-0 ⚽️⚽️
2 more for my correct prediction
COYWM
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Post by riochforthereebok on Feb 1, 2022 21:55:09 GMT
Absolutely fantastic battling win
Well done Wanderers and we’ll done Trafford for breaking the 4 game clean sheet record
I’m in dreamland
COYWM ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
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Post by chip on Feb 1, 2022 22:00:43 GMT
Just got in 2-0 fantastic I’ll wait for reports from people who watched the game but for now four wins four clean sheets and eleven goals you can’t argue with that well done Ian and the boys. Onwards and upwards stay safe one and all COYWM
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Post by whitesince63 on Feb 1, 2022 22:29:26 GMT
Excellent performance from front to back. That was a good team full of confidence that we played tonight. There were a couple of squeaks from high balls but no more than that compared to the numerous opportunities and close things we had. It could have been all over by half time and actually I don’t think Trafford had a save to make all night. I do though think he’s been fortunate because he doesn’t for me control his box and rarely comes for high balls. However, I’m not going to criticise anyone tonight, I thought we were terrific and fully deserved the win. I don’t want to get over confident but just now I’m not sure anybody in there can beat us. Full marks to IE and FV for what they’ve done and if we keep playing like this I really can see us pushing the play off places.
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Post by andyl on Feb 1, 2022 22:40:15 GMT
Well as she claimed of her predictive science rtf was right on the money. Well called!
We are a much more progressive team now. Charles g8ves us the vim and vigour his predecessors lacked and at times tonight Dapo gave something of a master class.
It helps that Fossey is such a speedy threat down the right flank and Morley has stabilised the left. With the reliability of Jones and the power of Williams it all looked good. We also forced them back with our pressing.
In the first half we could easily have had three goals and had Charles shot not been blocked at the near post we'd have had a superb team goal with beautiful crossfield passing.
Bakayoko was a bit in and out but he made the breakthrough and we could all relax a bit.
For much of the second half Cambridge had the initiative and won some freekicks and corners looking far more threatening than we did with twice the number. How por are our set pieces!!
Bodvarsson took a while to settle and didn't have a final ball but he did start to win aerial challenges. Saddlier too looked neat. In the end we sealed the game not with the penalty we should have had when Fossey was upended but when Charles harrassed and they made a mistake. Dapo did the rest in great style.
So a fairly comfortable game but it never felt safe because Santos in particular was having a nightmare. He faffed around in the first half more than once and let his man head on to a post unopposed. I don't think he headed the ball properly or won an aerial challenge in the game? He did make some good recoveries which needn't have been recoveries. Johnston similarly poor in the air didd well at times going forward and late on averted a goal by tight marking- just as well it was him.
All in all though we are so much improved and that without Lee
Trafford 6 Jones 7 Santos 3 Johnston 7 Fossey 8 Williams 8 Morley 8 Bakayoko 7 Charles 8 Dapo 9 John 7 Bodvarson 6 Saddlier 6
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Post by davidm on Feb 2, 2022 9:16:48 GMT
Another good performance.
Obviously, it couldn’t have been as good as Sunderland but the first half football was excellent. We just needed more goals to show for that first half dominance.
Give Cambridge credit – they came out second half and changed their style. It caused us problems which we were a bit frantic to defend until Dapo finished them off.
The first half we played some really good passing fast football. Fossey cold have scored 3 goals, Charles 2. Even Santos should have scored from a header from a corner. We totally dominated but having said that, Cambridge hit the post and had 2 near misses mainly due to the usual Santos “mad moments”.
Second half was more equal but their keeper made a good save from Afolayan, we probably should have had a penalty and then Charles harassed their defender into a mistake and gave the ball to Afolayan to do his magic. What a rocket shot.
A really good performance – on to Morecambe!
Marks:-
Trafford - 6 Nothing much to do but did what he had to. Cambridge did not have a shot on target. Jones - 7 As good as ever. His link up play with Fossey is excellent. Santos - 7 A couple of silly moments in the first half but solid in the tackle. Johnston - 8 When the opposition don’t launch high balls (i.e. Gillingham), he looks very good Fossey - 9 Non stop. Deserved a goal and a penalty John - 7 Good in the attacking role Williams - 6 Solid. I felt that he struggled for the final 15 minutes of the game (injury?) Morley - 8 Very good. His passing and awareness is outstanding Bakayoko - 6 A goal which what we ask for from a striker. Ball control is still iffy Afolayan - 9 Excellent again. Great goal Charles - 8 As busy as ever. Must really annoy opposing defenders. Bodvarsson - 7 Some good touches and won a few headers Sadlier - 7 Busy.
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