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by RobYeltz » 21 Apr 2018, 21:03
Not long back.
A good performance from the team today, it was tough going at times with Warrington having much of the ball in both halves. We caused them little trouble going forward in the first half with Hughes being well marshalled in particular and support to him sporadic. We defended deep, but defended well causing the home side to take long range pot shots that didn't really trouble us other than one effort that hit the bar and one good save from Platt from a long range effort when he appeared to see it late through a crowd of players. As I say, they had the majority of the ball, but for a second successive week we've looked relatively comfortable against a side aiming for promotion. We never looked like winning in truth, but 6 weeks ago we would have been a few goals down by half time.
The second half changes we made helped our forward momentum, Agbor came on and once again looked lively, but the extra attacking threat we had opened the game up a little for the opposition too. For their goal, the ball may have possibly been out of play in the build up, (I look forward to seeing the highlights to clarify) but Platty really had little to do for most of the game. Agbor's goal was a good finish from a good spell of play and the goal took the wind out of the home sides sails.
As for Agbor, his canny knack of scoring goals really means he should play more, however if the lad isn't there at training or able to travel to a number of away games no way should he walk into the team when he is there, what kind of message does that send out to the others in the squad, especially when a couple of the lads do a fair amount of travelling to just get to training?
Special mention today for me is for Kyle Morrison, he doesn't get much in the way of headlines and has had a tough season, I thought he was excellent today and as a player you can see how he is maturing, he's perhaps not one who folks would see as a player who they'd like to see stay next year but he'll only be better from the experience of such a tough season.
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RobYeltz on 21 Apr 2018, 22:22, edited 1 time in total.
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