Barrow - Papa John's Trophy

Will it be on iplayer

It should be a must OooM
Charles Baka Kacha and JDB with Dapo Bradley Trafford
Just go for it Evatt, it’s not so much about beating your old club, it’s about attempting to run with a stable side and sticking with a settled winning team
Try it, you might like it

Dont think Izzy is back until the new year. Could be wrong on that. I'd go

Trafford (though suspect Dixon)
Toal Aimson Iredale
Bradley John

Morley Dempsey
Sheehan

Sadlier Charles

Been an ‘ok’ game, bit laboured, but we’re 2-1 up so I can’t complain

Just wish Charles would find ‘some’ form back. He’s lacking confidence and in a game like this, after 45 minutes hasn’t had much of a sniff

Ian??

Why can your old team, who are a league beneath us, manage to do what your current team cannot???

Score from a corner😞😞

Ian’s gonna love his subs.
Instant impact, goals from both of them (Daps n Kacha)

Edit
We finally score from a corner and it’s off side 😂😂

For those of you who don’t attend these games – and I understand your reasoning – you have missed 3 really good entertaining games this season.

We played well in patches and ridiculously amateurish in other patches.

First half we passed the ball about well and Sadlier flashed a couple of brilliant crosses in early on which Charles seemed to be inches away from touching in. Barrow weren’t shy in their tackling which I don’t mind but both Dempsey and Sheehan were effectively taken out of the game by some hard stuff. The referee had a strange game in that she let things go and then blew up for some petty things. You could say she and her officials had a hand in both Barrow goals and a non-penalty for them.

We took the lead when Williams played a lovely high ball through to Afolayan (on as a sub for unfortunate Dempsey) who out-paced their central defenders to nod past the keeper. It was a good pass from Williams and Afolayan just out-smarted their defence with his run.

We were well on top by this stage and Bodvarsson scored, again after excellent passing, when Afolayan picked up the ball from a corner, found Sadlier who centred for Bodvarsson to score.

Two goals up and well on top but we do have a flaky defence.

We tried to pass out from the back and Afolayan, some 30 yards from our own goal, was dispossessed. I thought it was just about an OK tackle as Dapo seemed to dive for me. Their man ran forwards and shot. It really was a simple, maybe a hard-hit, shot that Dixon inexplicably let bounced from his chest for the man following up to score. I realise that he doesn’t get much practice but it was yet another mistake from the keeper. We have to accept that he is just not good enough.

So 2-1 at half time.

Second half we lost the drive we had and Barrow attacked with some pace. They had a tactic of hitting high balls into our half and, unfortunately as in plenty of matches this season, we are poor at defending high balls.

Barrow had a break down the left and Sheehan blocked the centre and Dixon, in my eyes, just prevented the ball going for a corner. The linesman, who was miles behind play, though flagged for a corner and this is where our defensive play this season is terrible. The corner came in. We have 4 players over 6ft in the defence but Afolayan is marking the man who heads on to the back post for an easy header. Santos should have won that corner and cleared and, probably, Toal should have been marking tighter on the back post. Just rank bad defending yet again at a corner.

The manager made substitutions and Kachunga tapped in for the winner when Afolayan’s shot, after a good twist and turn, rebounded off the post.

We still had some iffy moments as mass panic had inflicted the defence but somehow got to the final whistle unscathed.

As I say, a good match. Overall some good football. Second half we lost our shape. For a team which such a so-called good defensive record, we do look shaky.


A good result – still marching on to Wembley. Hope for another home draw (please not Barnsley!) and see where we get.


Marks:-
Dixon - 4 Surely his last chance. In nearly every appearance this season he has been responsible for at least 1 goal. It was not a difficult save to make – just basic poor goalkeeping.
Sadlier - 7 Very good first half. Lost his way a bit in the second half.
Toal - 7 He did some very good recovery tackles.
Santos - 6 Pretty good first half but he was one of 4 6ft+ defenders in the box for their 2nd goal and failed to win the ball. Look at the video of their 2nd goal and explain what he was doing. A very sloppy spell just after their equaliser too. Some very good long diagonal passes.
Iredale - 6 As with Santos, for a team with tall defenders, we don’t half get beaten to high balls in the box.
John - 7 A decent performance. He is a much better wing back than Iredale – not a better defender but much better wing back. The left side of the team attacked well.
Williams - 7 A good performance, highlighted by the pass to Afolayan for the 1st goal.
Sheehan - 6 Started very well. Like Dempsey, got kicked a lot and this eventually meant he drifted out of the game.
Dempsey - 6 Kicked out of the match.
Charles - 6 Almost seems to be trying too hard, if that’s possible. Very busy but nothing is falling for him at the moment.
Bodvarsson - 6 On the spot to score the 2nd goal.
Afolayan - 8 Excellent performance. Good running with the ball.
Kachunga - 7 Busy and, at last, on the spot for a tap in. I just couldn’t see how he was offside for his headed goal.
Bakayoko - 6 Not a great impact on the game
Lee
Bradley