We also had to adjust to playing on grass!
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We also had to adjust to playing on grass!
Firstly, how nice it was to watch a game of football. 2 sides playing, manily, with the ball on the floor and passing their way up the pitch. Unfortunately they were better at it than we were but, still, it was rather more cultured than what we've seen of late, especially from our 2 or 3 most recent oppponents who seemed intenton frightenng the ball to death.
1st goal Shinnie over committed, missed both man and ball and was on the deck and Knight couldn't get back quickly enough to cover when the Watford man went for the return, Sarr (who is frighteningly fast) left Lee for dead and the Wis, rather than put his foot through the ball, merely diverted it onto a Watford leg and it (the ball, not the leg) hit the back of the net. Nowt Marshy could do. 2nd from a corner, we dont clear it, it comes back to Will who put it away, calm as you like.
What was the ref thinking, disallowing Kazim's goal? Wis was held in a bear hug and couldn't move keeper half heartedly goes for the ball, gets nowhere near it and collides with the bear hugged Wis and then Kaz nodded it home. I suppose, technically, Wis was preventing the keeper getting to the ball but Wis was being held which was the 1st offence so a penalty to us or just play on and it's a goal. That's 2-1 and game on. Bloody ref :wink: As it was we got yet another own goal. Good cross from Byrne (who also hit the bar from a corner later, a corner at which Wis was in another bear hug.... another penalty not given) put into the net by a defender. Not enough for a point though.
I suppose it balances out Wycombe's "offside" goal from Tuesday.
Nul points. So be it. A minimum of 4 required from next week's outings. Huddersfield may well be another more "agricultural" affair and the Red Dogs... well, we'll play them off the park again and this time the ref will get his decisions right and we'll give em a whuppin'.
I thought Roberts was badly at fault for the second goal, MA...he really should have cleared the danger. Seems a bit lightweight to me, but Jozwiak offered virtually nothing when he came on as a replacement.
Bit disappointed in the pair of them and Knight too. No shortage of effort there but little end product of late, and Hughes simply brushed him off to win the ball in the build up to the opening goal.
On the plus side...of the newcomers I thought Edmundson looked the part. Not faultless but a very able deputy for Clarke, and 10/10 for CKR who chased absolutely everything, led by example again and should have been rewarded with another goal.
Ultimately they had Hughes and Sarr (who is surely destined for a bigger club) and that was the difference.
Watford were a premier league club last year, so no disgrace to lose and overall given the ragtag tea we have assembled it was always going to be a tough game. But we do need pts from the next two games.
I believe on commentary they said Watford paid £40 million for Sarr. How much did our lot cost in total? Less than half that I suspect