I'd probably say that the teams were fairly evenly matched for the first 28 minutes although we weren't creating much but once Accy scored it was pretty much game over.
Goals one and two were down to poor defending. The first when Hamza was beaten on the byline and nobody went across to cover and the second when McConville was allowed all the time in the world to bring the ball down turn and shoot from the edge of the area.
The second half was atrocious and Accy could/ should have had more than 1.
Accrington showed how attacking football should be played. Running with the ball from midfield, lots of off the ball movement from the forwards and the ball played either to feet or into space. Our attacking ideas seemed to consist solely of hoofing it up to the front three and hoping one of them would score.
We didn't seem interested today - a typical example was when Emil chased a ball for 30 odd yards, beat the defender to it, turned and found that no-one had bothered to move up the pitch to support him. We didn't play as a team, passing and ball control were poor and the defense which was shambolic enough in the first half actually contrived to become worse in the second.
Normally, after a defeat you can point to one or two areas that cost you the game and should be worked on for next Saturday but today was so abject, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Simmo has got a lot of work to do before the Chesterfield game.
Surprisingly, once again we had more of the possession but that isn't much use if you don't do anything with it.
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