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Last nights game had all the typical Football league misery cliches attached to it. Freezing cold, damp midweek January night fixture between two sides who have been uninspiring for a lot of the season. Couple of hundred away fans, a lot of empty seats in the home stands. Then the first half happened and yep, it lived right up to the drab scene setting. The highlight of the half was the cup of Bovril I drank, followed by one decent chance where a dangerous ball was whipped into the box and Haks was a toenail away from burying it into the back of the net.
The second half started and somehow it got worse, Cambridge scored. It was a good, well taken goal but I thought our defence flapped too much and could have done more to stop Loft breaking through.
I feared the worst and I was out of Bovril, but what an unexpected gift that goal turned out to be. It woke the lads up and things improved a lot. We took control of the game and importantly got the equaliser quickly. Good header from Wilkes that crept over the line and got us back into it. We kept the pressure on and played some decent stuff.
We showed that when we wanted to, we have some excellent dangerous play. The link up between Green and Sibley went through their defence like a hot knife through butter, which concluded with a piledriver shot from Sibley and an excellent save from their keeper.
The second goal was probably offside, as has been pointed out already. From where I was sat I didn't get a good view but I've seen the replay. The camera pans after the ball is passed so it isn't captured on screen but from where Wilkes is when he comes into shot and receives the ball he was either offside or covered a lot of ground very quickly. But the ref gave it, Cambridge didn't protest and we had a deserved lead.
It felt pretty comfortable after that, we managed the game well and apart from one worrying moment very late on where the ball was pinging around in our box and nobody could seem to get clean contact on it, the blood pressure stayed pretty steady.
Good three points, good character shown, crowd got behind the team well when the team woke up. Not a bad evening at all for a freezing cold, damp, midweek January night in Rotherham
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Originally Posted by Brin
