Putney Blade
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Just back. Absolutely no cutting edge. Same old story. When when DW wake up to this.
We play patient, cross field passes, in-front of our defensive line but fail to penetrate in the final 1/3rd. In contrast Brentford we much more incisive, had forwards / midfield players with quick feet, able to spin of our defenders, attack at pace and create problems. In contrast and especially in the first half, we were ponderous. We pass across our back line, with few midfield interventions, then lump it to Porter; this was easy meat to their central defenders. Our wide midfield and two full-backs never got behind their defence, our central midfield players don't have the pace to attack directly, nor the guile to create opportunities, we are very blunt offensively.
Blackman was lost playing right midfield. This is not his position. He failed to track back repeatedly and support McMahon, this contributed to their second goal. He never looked a threat apart from parts of the second half. Flynn is a total waste of space on this showing. No pace. No physicalty. No threat. Porter was no threat what so-ever. Miller was in-and-out. But 'cos we play hoof ball to Porter, was forced to feed off scraps. Probably a better player if had had better players around him.
It was evident today, there is NO pace and very little forward threat from Blackman, Doyle, MacDonald, Flynn, Miller & Porter. This if 6 out of the 11 players for gods sake, when you add our full-backs, not hard to see why we don't create or score goals. When will DW recognise this!
McMahon was poor, was at fault for their first goal, got caught sleeping, allowing their wide man to find the space to get behind us and deliver a telling cross. In fact the McMahon / Blackman combination didn't work, their two goals came from the left hand side. McMahon was rightly substituted.
Talking of substitutions. Why was Cresswell brought on? He is the same 'no-pace, big lump' of a forward like Porter. It offered nothing different.
Was more urgency & purpose in the second half, their goalie made a few good saves, but it was too late, lost in the game in the 1st half.
Glaringly obvious where our problems lie. Somewhere, somehow gotta find some money to buy / loan some creative attacking players midfield / upfront, players with pace. Without this, difficult to see how we will get promoted. Current bunch are not good enough.
UTB
We play patient, cross field passes, in-front of our defensive line but fail to penetrate in the final 1/3rd. In contrast Brentford we much more incisive, had forwards / midfield players with quick feet, able to spin of our defenders, attack at pace and create problems. In contrast and especially in the first half, we were ponderous. We pass across our back line, with few midfield interventions, then lump it to Porter; this was easy meat to their central defenders. Our wide midfield and two full-backs never got behind their defence, our central midfield players don't have the pace to attack directly, nor the guile to create opportunities, we are very blunt offensively.
Blackman was lost playing right midfield. This is not his position. He failed to track back repeatedly and support McMahon, this contributed to their second goal. He never looked a threat apart from parts of the second half. Flynn is a total waste of space on this showing. No pace. No physicalty. No threat. Porter was no threat what so-ever. Miller was in-and-out. But 'cos we play hoof ball to Porter, was forced to feed off scraps. Probably a better player if had had better players around him.
It was evident today, there is NO pace and very little forward threat from Blackman, Doyle, MacDonald, Flynn, Miller & Porter. This if 6 out of the 11 players for gods sake, when you add our full-backs, not hard to see why we don't create or score goals. When will DW recognise this!
McMahon was poor, was at fault for their first goal, got caught sleeping, allowing their wide man to find the space to get behind us and deliver a telling cross. In fact the McMahon / Blackman combination didn't work, their two goals came from the left hand side. McMahon was rightly substituted.
Talking of substitutions. Why was Cresswell brought on? He is the same 'no-pace, big lump' of a forward like Porter. It offered nothing different.
Was more urgency & purpose in the second half, their goalie made a few good saves, but it was too late, lost in the game in the 1st half.
Glaringly obvious where our problems lie. Somewhere, somehow gotta find some money to buy / loan some creative attacking players midfield / upfront, players with pace. Without this, difficult to see how we will get promoted. Current bunch are not good enough.
UTB
