| Great sporting day yesterday 09:50 - Mar 10 with 675 views | A1079 |
Went to the Saints vs Sunderland game. Another entertaining chamionship game but hell do they put you through the wringer with emotions. For the first half and start of the second half we were in total control. For a better conversion rate we should have finished the half 3 or 4 goals to the good, though I was not convinced by the penalty awarded but I have not seen a repeat of it to really comment but 2-0 at half time was the least we deserved. Sunderland were very poor and we could/should have done to them what they did to us at the Stadium of Light early in the season. So how come we allowed them back into the game the way we did?
For me, we surrendered our lead largely around the early substitutions. I did not understand (and hearing loads of others say the same) why we made the changes we did at the time we did when we were so in control but there was still a third of the match to go? Had we been 4-0 up, yes, or if someone was carrying an injury. But at that point, at that time, it did not make sense and neither did it to the players as you could visibly see. I think it sent the wrong message to the players and the fans - the attitude by the management/coaches appeared to be "it is ok, we are 2-0 up we can't lose this" - oh yes we can and for a moment we nearly did. Sunderland out of no where scored 1 goal and then a superb second and suddenly we were on the backfoot by our own undoing.
Fortunately as a team and as a season we seemed to pull a rabbit out of the hat and we scored 2 great winning goals - Rothwell - not a great player but does seem to know where the goal is when it matters.
So a good entertaining game but I cannot really see how we can expect to win promotion and even less so stay in the PL should somehow we do it with our kamikaze approach to goalkeeping, failure to convert chances and to shutting down games. But for sheer entertainment and for the joy of the Championship I am not sure I am really that bothered if we go up - but then we will lose quite a few players should we not go up. A double edged sword really.
Other observations - Bazunu was poor. Needlessly put our defence under pressure with his messing around - people say that is how he has been instructed. Well, I may have been told how to drive but if you see a car in front of you braking you don't carry on pressing on the accelerator - respond to what you see and take ownership of the situation, don't be a robot! Our conversion rate is making our games more difficult than they need to be and we do not make the most of the endless corners we get. Sulemana - he really worked hard and does the right stuff until he gets in the box - everyone was willing him to score and wants him to score. Che Adams played well and Brooks was excellent which made his substitution all the more strange and Bednarek had a good game though an odd choice for man of the match. The fans - I like to defend our own fans but the vocal support was patchy even when we were 2-0 in the lead and you could sense the edginess when Sunderland leveled when we really need to get behind and lift the team. Great noise though with the 3rd and 4th goals.
A good game of football and then the pub to see the rest of the England Vs Ireland game and an exciting win for England who were the underdogs from the media perspective and to top it all the Azurri's won.
Finished off with a Chinese meal. |  | | |  |
| Great sporting day yesterday on 13:09 - Mar 10 with 497 views | Manhattan_Lynx |
I do love a succulent Chinese meal. |  | | |
| Great sporting day yesterday on 14:14 - Mar 10 with 460 views | saintwizzler |
| Great sporting day yesterday on 13:09 - Mar 10 by Manhattan_Lynx |
I do love a succulent Chinese meal. |
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| Great sporting day yesterday on 16:03 - Mar 10 with 397 views | felly1 |
Nice review of the game Mr A1079.
Pretty much how I felt.
Good fun game but nerve shredding caused by messing about too much in our third and Baz's kicking was often poor yesterday. | | | |
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