⚽ Match Thread vs. Colchester United FC 05.04.25 [EFL L2]

[Mud Pie]

I'm not so sure, we seem to have "one of those days" on a very regular basis. By that I mean we mostly dominate games and should be ahead, but despite having a lot more possession and chances we find ourselves a goal down. Over the season it has happened far too often to simply put it down to bad luck. Add to that we don't often win against the top teams, and it all suggests we are close but something is missing.

just meant that ALL the other results, AND Abbott's injury, as well as the bounce of the ball at the game - a game in which we were clearly the better team, clearly trying harder to actually create something, and yet got duffed up by a random goal from a swirling hoofball like the one that hit the back of Platt's head the other week, or that 100 yard breakaway goal.

It probably is ultimately 'something missing' rather than 'one of those days' but that doesn't account for yet another bleddy injury and everyone else finding 2 goals in injury time or whatever today.

Pavis Perspective fella said it a couple of weeks ago, it's not just the top teams, but how many games have we lost that we looked like winning this season?

Colchester had most of their best players out too today, they had the same pitch and the same wind - difference is they had a killer hoofball that decided the game. It's a dangerous mix of dodgy luck and not being able to make our own luck.

Still, if we never beat the teams around us except in the playoffs, it will be enough

[jacobncfc]

You cannot claim that you?re the better team and you were hard done by in a game where you had one completely take shot on target in ninety minutes of football IMO.

[Mud Pie]

You cannot claim that you?re the better team and you were hard done by in a game where you had one completely take shot on target in ninety minutes of football IMO.

both teams had one shot on target, and you're saying they're the better team because...?

[Elite_Pie]

Pavis Perspective fella said it a couple of weeks ago, it's not just the top teams, but how many games have we lost that we looked like winning this season?

Far too many, which was pretty much my point.

[Mud Pie]

Far too many, which was pretty much my point.

I think the point I'm defending is that we are looking like winning these games. Understand everyone's frustration, but don't agree that it's an effort thing, or even an intensity thing so much as one killer ball/ one lucky bounce / one hundred yard breakaway thing.