keith margam
Vital Football Legend
The fall out from last Saturday.
Bournemouth couldn’t score at Peterborough yet we beat Peterborough 3-0. Then Bournemouth put four past us without reply for their biggest win of the season. Football matches are so unpredictable that’s for sure. Squeezing three matches into a week then no matches for two weeks doesn’t help although it’s the same problem for all Championship teams.
Regarding the Bournemouth hammering, the result was easily predictable once we heard the team news - no changes. An ageing back three asked to play three games in seven days was a step too far.
Lessons not learnt then as the same thing happened when lowly Birmingham beat us in the last three matches in a week sequence.
Bennett on the right side of the back three was cruelly exposed for pace and we had no answer to their aggressive play and high press.
The description “defensive dawdling” from one websites match report was very apt.
Moving on, do we change our back three for the next game, with players eagerly waiting in the wings for their opportunity but going stale through lack of matches.
There’s two weeks to analyse what went wrong and put right for the next game, let’s use the time wisely.
Bournemouth couldn’t score at Peterborough yet we beat Peterborough 3-0. Then Bournemouth put four past us without reply for their biggest win of the season. Football matches are so unpredictable that’s for sure. Squeezing three matches into a week then no matches for two weeks doesn’t help although it’s the same problem for all Championship teams.
Regarding the Bournemouth hammering, the result was easily predictable once we heard the team news - no changes. An ageing back three asked to play three games in seven days was a step too far.
Lessons not learnt then as the same thing happened when lowly Birmingham beat us in the last three matches in a week sequence.
Bennett on the right side of the back three was cruelly exposed for pace and we had no answer to their aggressive play and high press.
The description “defensive dawdling” from one websites match report was very apt.
Moving on, do we change our back three for the next game, with players eagerly waiting in the wings for their opportunity but going stale through lack of matches.
There’s two weeks to analyse what went wrong and put right for the next game, let’s use the time wisely.