Originally Posted by
nw6pie
The problem yesterday is that we had 2.5 luxury players in the starting XI in Enzio, Rodrigues and, to a lesser extent, Knowles, against a big, physical team that liked to go direct and bypass the midfield.
Rodrigues is very promising (for about an hour) when he's in the opposition half, but a liability in his own penalty area. We all know what Enzio's strengths are (and that we see them once every four or five games). And Knowles is promising but very raw - he took up a great position for his goal yesterday, but struggled with the ball in the wide right position. With Wootton marked out of the game by two strapping centre halves, like yesterday (and at Sutton), that leaves us with a problem we didn't look like solving in the second half yesterday.