silverlion
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A really poor first half performance redeemed a little in the second half but still defeated.
A reasonable start but we really couldn’t get going. They were on the front foot from the first whistle and it took us a good five minutes before we got any sort of control. Joe looked full of running on the left but Emakhu wasn’t really working as well in front of him as he could. Danny was trying hard on the right but Femi was trying too many tricks. It did work once but he was unable to capitalise on a long run. The second time he wasn’t so lucky. He tried to trick his way down the wing but lost the ball, it got fed inside and their attacker got between Hutch and Murray, opened up a little space and drilled it into the bottom right hand corner for 1-0. We huffed and puffed but really didn’t have much success. Langstaff looked ineffective, Emakhu had one good run tight to the byline and we did look powder puff upfront. They had their noses in front and we got booed off. Surely there must be changes after the break. During the warm up Casper and Esse were warming up in their match shirts and that was the give away.
After the break they came on and Honeyman and Kelly took an early bath. We looked much better in the second half. We played some decent joined up football and it really did look just a matter of time. They had little threat although they did have some possession. Esse played as a ten with FemI still wide and he played better. As hard as we tried we could make little headway. Femi did break and knocked s great ball inside to Esse but it was just s little beyond him. Fresh legs came with Joe and Emakhu making way for Leonard and Tom. We continued to show some threat bu no real decent efforts on goal. Watmore came on for Azeez but there was little change in our threat. Near the death Tom limped off with a torn calf and we played the last few minutes with only ten men. Even six added minutes didn’t help and, to be Frank we could have played 26 added minutes without scoring. They were booed off.
Robert’s was OK and could do little more than he did to stop their goal. He didn’t have a single shot to save in the second half. Danny was his normal feisty self, Hutch and Murray got caught our badly for the goal and Joe was lively. Kelly was like a rabbit in the headlights and really looked as if he had just walked in off the street for a game. Sav was busy, Emakhu had few moments and Azeez had one or two moments but was culpable for their goal.Honeyman was largely ineffective and Langstaff was more so. Casper and Esse added some quality in the second half, Leonard added some steel and Bradshaw ran a lot. Watmore added more threat but not enough to make a difference.
A disappointing game and performance which was full of complacency and showed poor team selection. We will have a lot to do to give a better performance on Saturday.
A reasonable start but we really couldn’t get going. They were on the front foot from the first whistle and it took us a good five minutes before we got any sort of control. Joe looked full of running on the left but Emakhu wasn’t really working as well in front of him as he could. Danny was trying hard on the right but Femi was trying too many tricks. It did work once but he was unable to capitalise on a long run. The second time he wasn’t so lucky. He tried to trick his way down the wing but lost the ball, it got fed inside and their attacker got between Hutch and Murray, opened up a little space and drilled it into the bottom right hand corner for 1-0. We huffed and puffed but really didn’t have much success. Langstaff looked ineffective, Emakhu had one good run tight to the byline and we did look powder puff upfront. They had their noses in front and we got booed off. Surely there must be changes after the break. During the warm up Casper and Esse were warming up in their match shirts and that was the give away.
After the break they came on and Honeyman and Kelly took an early bath. We looked much better in the second half. We played some decent joined up football and it really did look just a matter of time. They had little threat although they did have some possession. Esse played as a ten with FemI still wide and he played better. As hard as we tried we could make little headway. Femi did break and knocked s great ball inside to Esse but it was just s little beyond him. Fresh legs came with Joe and Emakhu making way for Leonard and Tom. We continued to show some threat bu no real decent efforts on goal. Watmore came on for Azeez but there was little change in our threat. Near the death Tom limped off with a torn calf and we played the last few minutes with only ten men. Even six added minutes didn’t help and, to be Frank we could have played 26 added minutes without scoring. They were booed off.
Robert’s was OK and could do little more than he did to stop their goal. He didn’t have a single shot to save in the second half. Danny was his normal feisty self, Hutch and Murray got caught our badly for the goal and Joe was lively. Kelly was like a rabbit in the headlights and really looked as if he had just walked in off the street for a game. Sav was busy, Emakhu had few moments and Azeez had one or two moments but was culpable for their goal.Honeyman was largely ineffective and Langstaff was more so. Casper and Esse added some quality in the second half, Leonard added some steel and Bradshaw ran a lot. Watmore added more threat but not enough to make a difference.
A disappointing game and performance which was full of complacency and showed poor team selection. We will have a lot to do to give a better performance on Saturday.
