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Huge result - need to build on this now. The thing that baffles me is when we start to play football and eventually score a goal Wilder time and time again decides to break it up and sub off any attack threat and goes fully defensive. We can’t do this against better sides, we would have lost if that was against a better side.
I hope Wilder grows a pair and allows us to try get more goals and not sit back
I appreciate we needed the points but we could easily have conceded as we have done many many times in the past and thrown away leads by allowing the opposition at us!
 
Blade45 said:
Very happy. I thought we played well too, a deserved win.
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One of our worse performances of the season….we looked nervous
.thought Oxford were terrible and based on chances Oxford probably thought they deserved a draw.

However a win is a win….at this stage it’s all about the result not the performance….so well done.
Hopefully it will give us some confidence.
 
Peaktrade said:
I hope Wilder grows a pair and allows us to try get more goals and not sit back
I appreciate we needed the points but we could easily have conceded as we have done many many times in the past and thrown away leads by allowing the opposition at us!
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I know what you mean but if only it was that simple.
Last season proved how negative park the bus tactics helped us gain so many wins.
I think parking the bus is a dangerous tactic and shouldn’t be used too often….but it was massively successful for us last season.

If we’d have attacked going for a 2-0 and ended up drawing 1-1….everyone would have been saying how Wilder is clueless.
They’d have said why try for a 2-0 risking conceding when you had a 1-0 in the bag.
 
Sheffsteel said:
One of our worse performances of the season….we looked nervous
.thought Oxford were terrible and based on chances Oxford probably thought they deserved a draw.

However a win is a win….at this stage it’s all about the result not the performance….so well done.
Hopefully it will give us some confidence.
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Really? I thought we played quite well, created some chances, and generally looked the better side. Not a dominant win or anything, Oxford had periods of possession, but I thought that we deserved it, on the balance of things.

I certainly didn’t think it was one of the worst of the season, but I do agree that Oxford were generally poor.
 
Peaktrade said:
Huge result - need to build on this now. The thing that baffles me is when we start to play football and eventually score a goal Wilder time and time again decides to break it up and sub off any attack threat and goes fully defensive. We can’t do this against better sides, we would have lost if that was against a better side.
I hope Wilder grows a pair and allows us to try get more goals and not sit back
I appreciate we needed the points but we could easily have conceded as we have done many many times in the past and thrown away leads by allowing the opposition at us!
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Agreed, although as you said we just needed the win.

We can attack teams and attack quite well but its a confidence issue.
 
By no means perfect, but much improved in the second half. Have to say the ball looked to have gone out for the goal?
 

Blade45 said:
Really? I thought we played quite well, created some chances, and generally looked the better side. Not a dominant win or anything, Oxford had periods of possession, but I thought that we deserved it, on the balance of things.

I certainly didn’t think it was one of the worst of the season, but I do agree that Oxford were generally poor.
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All the in-game stats (apart from corners) show Oxford were better, so arguably they deserved to win.
We had just 6 shots the whole match compared to Oxfords 14 shots.

Think we looked higher quality but that’s because Oxford were a direct hit and hope side relying on goal mouth scrambles.
We always looked like we had a extra gear but had clutch problems so we were stuck in 1st gear.

The positive was the 10 minutes leading up to our goal.
We played a bit like we did last season and were starting to dominate Oxford pinning them back with some quick crisp passing.

The negative was the lack of composure in the last 10 minutes….Oxford just booted it into our box and our defenders panicked just booting it out back to them.
 
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Blade45 said:
Really? I thought we played quite well, created some chances, and generally looked the better side. Not a dominant win or anything, Oxford had periods of possession, but I thought that we deserved it, on the balance of things.

I certainly didn’t think it was one of the worst of the season, but I do agree that Oxford were generally poor.
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It was a decent enough performance, very similar to what we saw last season, just doing enough to win.

At the moment the result is all that matters, hopefully we can see some more improvements in the performances soon.
 
Bladesman said:
Agreed, although as you said we just needed the win.

We can attack teams and attack quite well but its a confidence issue.
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yes confidence issue but the amount of times we thrown games away because of wilder tactics.. last example .. Sunderland..

the amount of times we’ve been in front and then tried to shut up shop and invite them into us and then conceded!
 
3Cheers4Ramirez said:
We're probably going to win the league
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Agree…..what you find is that when ever we lose we played rubbish….sack the manager
And when we win….its amazing how we’ve always played well.

Thought we were good for 10 minutes leading up to the goal…the rest of the time we were poor
But maybe it was a case of Oxford dragging us down to their standard, they played kick and rush, fought well but no quality.
 
Sheffsteel said:
All the in game stats (apart from corners) show Oxford were better, so arguably they deserved the win.
We had just 6 shots the whole match compared to Oxford 14 shots.

Think we looked higher quality but that’s because Oxford were a direct hit and hope side relying on goal mouth scrambles.
We always looked like we had a extra gear but had clutch problems so we were stuck in 1st gear.

The positive was the 10 minutes leading up to our goal.
We played a bit like we did last season and were starting to dominate Oxford pinning them back.

The negative was the last 10 minutes….Oxford just booted it into our box and our defenders panicked just booting it out back to them.
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Oxford had more shots but I don’t think they ever threatened to score until the final 10 minutes. First half wasn’t great but in the second half (up until about the 70th minute) I thought we’d done well enough to win the game. I do agree about going negative after scoring, it immediately makes us more vulnerable.

Ultimately it was reminiscent of a performance from last season, and perhaps my standards have been lowered by the beginning to this season, but that is a welcome sight imo.

Ultimately it’s about the result, as you say.
 
The management obviously got into them at half time. We got the ball down and played until.a really nervy last 15. Peck, O'Hare and Soumare started to play, especially Peck who was really panicky first half.
 
Peaktrade said:
Huge result - need to build on this now. The thing that baffles me is when we start to play football and eventually score a goal Wilder time and time again decides to break it up and sub off any attack threat and goes fully defensive. We can’t do this against better sides, we would have lost if that was against a better side.
I hope Wilder grows a pair and allows us to try get more goals and not sit back
I appreciate we needed the points but we could easily have conceded as we have done many many times in the past and thrown away leads by allowing the opposition at us!
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Literally just about the 3 points, we needed the duck off our backs and how the players are fragile and confidence is low, I fully understand why wilder had done this.

If he told our players to go gun ho and conceeded on break in last min, youd have moaned saying why didnt he shut shop up to get the first win. Damned if he does & dammed of he doesnt.

Fully agree if it was last season or we was playing good attacking football and had swagger and confidence.
 

Sheffsteel said:
Agree…..what you find is that when ever we lose we played rubbish….sack the manager
And when we win….its amazing how we’ve always played well.

Thought we were good for 10 minutes leading up to the goal…the rest of the time we were poor
But maybe it was a case of Oxford dragging us down to their standard, they played kick and rush, fought well but no quality.
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Oh we were poor. We are poor. But we are going to win the league regardless ⚔️
 
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