⚽Match Thread vs. Oldham Athletic 01.01.23 [NL]

[the_anticlough]

We didn't deserve to win that game - arrogance, complacency, wastefulness, no urgency at all.

It starts with the tinkerman team selection - arrogant in itself, as well as negative. Why can't we play 2 strikers all of a sudden? Against a team in the relegation zone? Did we buy Langstaff and Scott just to alternate them?
Bostock and Palmer is duplication. Yeah Cameron at LWB didn't work - poor composure on his crosses.
All in all, how not to go about getting a frontrunning win away to a team at the bottom.

[jackal2]

We didn't deserve to win that game - arrogance, complacency, wastefulness, no urgency at all.

It starts with the tinkerman team selection - arrogant in itself, as well as negative. Why can't we play 2 strikers all of a sudden? Against a team in the relegation zone? Did we buy Langstaff and Scott just to alternate them?
Bostock and Palmer is duplication. Yeah Cameron at LWB didn't work - poor composure on his crosses.
All in all, how not to go about getting a frontrunning win away to a team at the bottom.

Fair criticism. Dropping two points today won't be terminal, but not learning from it could be. Hopefully the short-term pain leads to long-term gain!

[Bernard_Bresslaw]

We didn't deserve to win that game - arrogance, complacency, wastefulness, no urgency at all.

It starts with the tinkerman team selection - arrogant in itself, as well as negative. Why can't we play 2 strikers all of a sudden? Against a team in the relegation zone? Did we buy Langstaff and Scott just to alternate them?
Bostock and Palmer is duplication. Yeah Cameron at LWB didn't work - poor composure on his crosses.
All in all, how not to go about getting a frontrunning win away to a team at the bottom.

100%. Inevitable that they were going to be stronger than Boxing Day and away at a team needing to scrap is never the time to make unenforced changes.

Fine margins though, even though we weren't great a horrible cockup cost us and if we'd kept Langstaff on you'd fancy him to get on the end of one of the late crosses.

[the_anticlough]

100%. Inevitable that they were going to be stronger than Boxing Day and away at a team needing to scrap is never the time to make unenforced changes.

Fine margins though, even though we weren't great a horrible cockup cost us and if we'd kept Langstaff on you'd fancy him to get on the end of one of the late crosses.

I'll stand by what I wrote because in the first half of the home game we showed clear superiority over them and the 4-1 scoreline in no way flattered us. After that? We play 2 hrs and 15 mins of parity with them, with the mindset that we can score when we need to so why bother trying all that hard.....and we wouldn't want to embarrass them, would we?

Regarding Ruben's bad game, all you can say in his defence is that LW isn't picking enough players who play in front of him. He needs targets to hit ahead of him, to utilise his greatest strength.