Well I've been home for 20 minutes now and am quite pleased with what I saw today. Negatives first then we can get onto the good stuff. In the first half we were still playing too much Route 1, lumping it up for Vieira and Shakes of all people to win. On the few occaisions we did keep it down we soley utilized the left flank, I think Forshaw only touched the ball twice all half! didn't really create anything other than the odd half chance either. Defensively we were okay, but Crooks needs to wise up to the fact that if you keep your hands on opposition you will get pulled up for it. Saying that though he put in a strong but fair shoulder tackle that was completely diabollically ruled as a foul.
Second half we came out a much better side, challenging hard and playing football on the deck, albeit still down the left until the introduction of West, where it switched to the right, capped by one beautiful ball from Heeroo which set Westy free but he wasted the chance by trying to squeeze it in the near post when going across the keeper would have been better. Lindie for the injured Vieira was a good move, he held the ball up well, was a willing runner and took hid goal well.
Refereeing standards are still crap, although I think we were lucky Shoulton only got a yellow for a two footed off the floor lunge in the second half and Welsh should have seen yellow for persistent fouling. Other than that the ref was a pure homer.
Bring on Cambridge while they're in termoil!
Thanks, lads - thanks, Liam. UTF!
