⚽Match Thread vs. Woking FC 15.04.23 [NL]

[upthemaggies]

Ask myself the very same question. The times we come out second half with a more positive approach leads me to think that LW wants to contain the opposition in the first half and come out and kick arse in the second?

Doesn't sound like it going by his post match interview, he wasn't impressed with the 1st half, he's saying now that at half-time he said to them "Do you want me to make excuses for you after the game?"

[laddo]

Think most teams at this level can do the high pressure marking for 45-60 minutes, then run out of steam. That is what I think we work on

This ^^^^^

The same way you can't expect Notts to play at that high level for 75-90 mins, that's not how football works. Teams train and play to stop the other side being able to. Nowt new.

[upthemaggies]

Basically LW has said the team was feeling sorry for themselves in the 1st half and the attitude wasn't right.

[cher1]

The end of this season is going to be so interesting.

Notts are a team far greater than the sum of their parts, with an outstanding manager.

Wrexham have a squad of individuals who are better than this division, they're expected to win every week, with a decent manager.

When the pressure is on (which is is), who is going to blink first?

[Proactive not Reactive]

Observations today
Slocombe is our best keeper and gives the defence confidence
Baldwin’s positioning stops that ball over the top happening so easily and same as above
Bostock is better as the central defensive position as he reads the game so well and Palmer is far more dangerous going forward and as more legs as a box to box midfielder
Teams are going to stop us playing for part of the game but not all of it.
If we stay calm and continue to do the right thing’s especially at pace no-one will live with us in the playoffs(if we are in them)
Durham hasn’t got a clue otherwise if we had followed his mantra and Tinkerman hadn’t changed the team Sam Austin wouldn’t have started the game got MOM and opened their defence up 😜

[countygump]

Doesn't sound like it going by his post match interview, he wasn't impressed with the 1st half, he's saying now that at half-time he said to them "Do you want me to make excuses for you after the game?"

I don't think anyone was impressed with the 1st half. Though the Woke Folk did well to "cancel us out" I also thought we were poor. Too slow to get the ball forward, too ponderous and far too many passes going astray. 2nd half, 10 mins in, different story, We scored a goal and came alive. Well done Notts.

[Proactive not Reactive]

I don't think anyone was impressed with the 1st half. Though the Woke Folk did well to "cancel us out" I also thought we were poor. Too slow to get the ball forward, too ponderous and far too many passes going astray. 2nd half, 10 mins in, different story, We scored a goal and came alive. Well done Notts.

Exactly right Gump but you haven’t taken into account what our first goal did to both team’s confidence and energy

[SmiffyPie]

I did but only if you omitted the part about getting that cushion of a first goal, and the confidence and freedom it brings, which you did.

If we've been sussed out by so many, why have only 3 teams defeated us this season and the 2nd and 3rd happening in March and April? They know how to stop us , but can't cos of the obvious quality in our squad Smiffy?

As for Masson, no happy to say it was before my time but I've heard plenty from the old man who did. I believe him to be our best player of that era and since.

But it's not the defeats that have cost us is it, it's the points dropped with drawn games that have hurt us.
Yes we have quality (not central defensive though IMO) and we have the ability to roll any team over once we come out positive instead of a slow (ponderous?) possesion led build up but heyho I am an observer and have my unprofessional idea of playing the game.

[upthemaggies]

It's probably a by-product of Notts starting games poorly that the opposition are encouraged and work harder, losing energy later on.
It carries a risk though. Going behind in a play off game 1st half won't be so easy to recover when teams will be putting bodies 'on the line' to keep us out at all costs. There was a run of 3 consecutive games at the beginning of March where we conceded the first goal and dropped 2 points in that sequence, which has proved very costly indeed.

[Maggie's Farm]

We were a bit dull first half, but still probably won the half. Never in danger apart from that free header from a corner.

imo, we don't get the ball in the box enough. Today was something like 2 goals from 3 crosses.