Quote Originally Posted by MAD_MAGPIE View Post
Along with the 27 shots we also got caught offside three or four times in the second half. So that’s over 30 chances in which we broke Newport down and could have scored. That comes down to what is the hardest thing to do in football score goals. Shots on and off target were simply not clinical enough.
I don?t think this is quite right - just because you?ve had a shot doesn?t mean you?ve broken the opposition down. The vast majority of our shots were either from outside the box, so a very small chance of scoring, or with five or six defenders between the ball and the goal making a block likely.

What I thought was striking watching the highlights was how, while we did have a few reasonable chances, they pretty much all came from us winning the ball back from Newport in their own half. We were able to create next to nothing from our own spells of possession, which is a bit of an issue for a team that has so much possession.