A routine performance and a routine win for me. We always looked to have enough to win, and they caused us very little trouble.
My view, from back to front.
Simmonson still makes me nervous. I liked Lescinel, thought Collins (looked leagues ahead of some of his performances last season) and Maguire looked OK in the middle, but they spent too much time passing the ball to each other instead of moving it into midfield or going long to no-one in particular. Harrys player with the headbandage (I felt that to give the lad some dignity, they could have drawn eyebrows on it...) seemed to win more than he lost, but Harry stuck to the task. Lowton looked slow today although his positioning got him out of the two bits of trouble he got himself into.
Monty, excellent. Broke up their play much more than ours. The young lad Mendez drifted in and out a bit. I think we'll see him have better games. Quinny had plenty of possession, but almost all of it within 3yards of the touchline where he got easily hemmed in by the defence. McDonald was a bit of an enigma to me. I dont recall him being that involved in the game. I even watched him for five minutes and he seemed to be where the ball wasn't. the bits I did see form him were decent enough. (See comment re Mendez.)
Cressy covered a lot of ground, not with a lot of success, had the obligatory fight with the centre half, and knocked one in from nothing. Slew also ran a lot, got in the same trap as Quinn on the touchline, took his goal well.
Overall, we didn't use midfield as well or as cleverly as I would have liked, but we stayed pretty untroubled by the threat from Brentford and in truth a solid home win, clean sheet again, it would be churlish to moan. Well done Danny and the team..!
