Match Thread Swindon v The Mighty Blades

[Isar]

Three points, all that matters now it's all over. Class. Bolton fans'll look at our result & it'll be a sickener after what they did tonight (& with Fleetwood winning).

Really vital we got that win & kept the gap nice & wide.

The pressure is on bolton, but they have surprised me with their last two results.

 

[loyalblade95]

games like this happen, just proved to me why we are going up, we can win even when playing below par, on to charlton with 9 games to go haven't bolton still got to play scunthorpe right or scunthorpe got to play fleetwood

 

[FMBlade1]

Shame about Fulham being held, the upside is that Blackburn are that bit closer to dragging Forest down xd

As for us, delighted we got there in the end though no room for complacency. I can imagine one team catching us should we slide, but two would be nearly impossible IMO

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That's not very like Batman...

Shut up!!! It's a secret.

 

[Antonb]

Thank god for that.Looked at BBC website for last 5 mins. Couldn't listen any longer. Vital win, we everyone else winning. Still alot to do. Get all the fucking defence in, including Moore for the rest of the week.On the bleedin training ground.

 

[Blade56]

I feel sick. Glad we won but we need a convincing victory to settle my sphincter issues.

 

[Dronfield_Blade]

10 goals in 3 away games can't fault that just wish they would not give us a heart attack they got 7 points that I thought we would get which is a great return from 3 away games on the spin.

9 games left we are almost there now Blades let's get the job done UTB

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Bizarre game. We were so comfortable first half, and finished it with such dominance, that it looked like we could absolutely destroy them 2nd half. The first game from relentless pressing, with Freeman's the perfect end to a superbly patient team goal.

Instead, in classic style we started the 2nd half slowly, and gave them far two much space for two near identical goals. Not sure if it was Coutts not tracking, or Basham not closing down, but they both scored unchallenged. And after that it was all panicky. Wilder went to a 4-1-3-2 with Basham moving forward, and I can't say we ever looked fully comfortable at the back.

Which is why it was a massive relief that Swindon felt content to gift us two goals at crucial moments with some woeful defending. Add to that the offside decision for them, and fortune was on our side. The sort of luck that might suggest this is the year.

Tough one to rate. I thought Lafferty, McConnell and Sharp all were strong in both halves. The rest had mixed games. But who cares – the run goes on!

Fans last 20 mins drove us on through some tough moments.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

The pressure is on bolton, but they have surprised me with their last two results.

Yeah, come out of nowhere! Suddenly a free-scoring machine. Honestly can't see it lasting though.

See they've got their game in hand next Tuesday at Oxford. Can see them slipping there.

 

[The Vicar]

Bolton have to go to Oxford, Southend & Scunthorpe - 6 away & 4 home!

 

[Student Blade]

Highlights: http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/10802331/swindon-2-4-sheffield-utd

 

[Harry's Game]

Highlights: http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/10802331/swindon-2-4-sheffield-utd

Keystone cops stuff from Swindon's defence. Our defending weren't great either. Wright needs to play on one leg if necessary.

 

[Willglynning]

Highlights: http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/10802331/swindon-2-4-sheffield-utd

What on earth was their keeper doing for our third?

 

[Blade56]

Not a defender within 10 yards of their two goals. Woeful!

 

[South Bucks]

Just got back fom the game, a game of two completely different halves for me.

First half us in control with our normal passing game, lots of energy, them looking like the worst side I've seen this season, couldn't see them scoring ever.

Second half a slow half interested start from us, they start with alot bit more energy and start cutting through our midfield like butter for the first 10 minutes and score a couple of goals with long range efforts, keeper should have done better on both we thought. Issue appeared to be more our midfield not picking up their defensive responsibilities, not closing down and just jogging back and giving them chances to shoot, rather than our defensive line. Really looked like they might go on to win after 55 minutes, they had a third "goal" disallowed for offside and we were a bit all over the place and aa bit panicy and not so much playing he passing game of the first half, losing the ball more often. Thought we were slightly fortunate with or 3rd and 4th as we didn't create so many chances on goal in the second half.

Overall the better team won but it could easily have gone either way after they equalised.
Overall good performances all round on our side but goal keeping on both sides a bit questionable.

Big thing for me was how in the first 10 to 20 minutes of the second half Swindon really exposed how some of midfield are not so good defensively when put under pressure and people run at them and they got through all to easily, If we go up this probably needs addressing, we had no tough tackling midfielder to protected our defence by stopping them running through our midfield with the ball .

All opinions of course.

And the glue in the glue pot was its normal good quality for those who know their type of glue.

 

[Grappler]

If we had closed down their players faster, we could have (potentially) avoided two goals. I know we won, and should accept that our style of attacking play will leave us open, but I can't stand some of the back tracking we do, when all we need is a player to sprint forward and get right in front of someone and cut off their options.

 

[Good Pinch Of Snuff]

we were sloppy second half, not sure why we always come out (when leading) a bit lethargic, its like we need to be losing to raise our game, anyway we won so now onto Charlton i need to sleep