Burton post match reflections

[DonPageFanClub]

So what about the other 70 mins . I think we deserve some credit for a brilliant fight back boys don't do that against men they crumble. We could have won it at the end with a great chance for sheriff. There 2nd goal was well finished. But very fortunate to how it came about with the slip from spence , that's 5 games unbeaten now in the league , so the boys arnt doing too bad , bad decision from Dawson for first goal , but he pulled a great save off in, 1st half with his feet .Douglas was brilliant. Won all his headers and played simple passes , well done raffertey for helping him. Injuries again to weeken the team. So in my opinion the boys against men did well .. Burton are no mugs

[Lolmorgan]

We can?t play a simple pass it has to go long every time. We then conceded possession. Oof ball to Nombe and Martha doesn?t work. Putting Sherrif on in front of Hugill is criminal. Very poor tonight. Referee abysmal for both teams.
We?re just not good to watch.

We will ruin Nombe if we are not very careful, he chases no hope balls too much. He needs help, him & Wilkes we’re just getting a bit of a partnership back end of last season. The lads a poacher not an out & out striker.Still need that leader in midfield.

[avondalemiller]

Don't know what the situation is over injuries but that was poor. I've said it before that we will do nothing with Sherif up front unless Hugill is on to win the ball. The ball just keeps coming back time after time, it got no better in the 2nd half when Sherif came on. He's 6ft + and 5ft+ when he jumps. Then put the ball over when we could have pinched it. He's not the only reason why we played crap and got away with a point.
Neither was the Ref, who was shocking for both sides.

How many times did we go back instead of putting it in??? Rafferty was playing hell up with them for not getting rid when Spence slipped and they scored.

So disappointing performace all round underlined by putting Hugill on at the end, he should have been on when they went 2 up.

[Jocksgloves1]

Well I quite enjoyed it. Both teams played a bit of football. Yes, plenty of passes went astray, I thought that made the game more dramatic.
Even first half, but as on Saturday our opponents took the initiative and dominated the first twenty minutes, unlucky slip costing us dearly. Dawson's full length save at 0-2 kept us in it, and a game we'd have lost a few weeks ago was saved. If you didn't enjoy that, then there's no hope.

[Eternal Optimist]

I thought we looked reasonable in the last 20 minutes. Not so much for the first 70.

Even so, another good comeback, so the lads are showing some fight.

Lincoln Satdi will be a tough challenge.

[Pocket rocket]

Well I quite enjoyed it. Both teams played a bit of football. Yes, plenty of passes went astray, I thought that made the game more dramatic.
Even first half, but as on Saturday our opponents took the initiative and dominated the first twenty minutes, unlucky slip costing us dearly. Dawson's full length save at 0-2 kept us in it, and a game we'd have lost a few weeks ago was saved. If you didn't enjoy that, then there's no hope.

Then there?s no hope then cause it was poor at best. Poor quality poor tactics and poor atmosphere.
If that was Steve Evans he would be getting pelters. It was poor and that?s been kind.

[avondalemiller]

Dawson is a very expensive disaster waiting to happen too often. TBF he hasn't been too bad lately but old habits taken some shaking off.....
.............another one to let go in June.

[Timbertop]

Backward steps tonight. Observations :- Teams know Dawson is a line bound flapper and play on it. The midfield (Gore is easily the best of them) are clones of each other with little quality or aggression. Hugill’s physicality is a big miss. Sherrif is a big soft waste of space and you can blow Martha over. We are far from safe if tonight is an indicator.

[Derbymiller]

Let us start with the positives, we are in the top half, more than Evan’s achieved. Douglas, was excellent and so pleased for him scoring the goal. Gore and Powell yet again gave everything, never stop running remember they played 130 minutes on Saturday. For the third time this season we came back from 2-0 down at home. We 5 unbeaten in the league.
For me that was a very poor performance following the one on Saturday and both of those were MH fault. I simply do not buy the injury story for the weekend I think he was putting priority on this game but the manner of the cup defeat had a knock on effect to tonight’s performance. These managers spend too much time watching the premier league, resting players and not treating each cup game with the respect and desire to win as they should. Back to tonight, Hall and Martha were terrible, how one or both weren’t removed at half-time is beyond belief, yet he took off McWilliams who was doing ok and at least tries. McWilliams could have gone to right-wing back and tightened us up down that side, hall was beaten time and again in the first half and was so static going forward. Martha was shocking, tries to run through players when a simple pass is the option, MH says we might have to sell him in January as he was bought with the intention to sell for a profit, I think that has already gone to his head, not a patch on Wilks. We conceded from a set piece goal, what a surprise playing two full-backs as centre backs when we had two other centre backs sat on the bench. This coming back all the time, so Dawson can lump it to the opposition centre backs, how many games does it take before the management see that doesn’t work and we lose possession too easy. We were fortunate tonight very fortunate, play like that on Saturday and it won’t end so well. How many times did we work their keeper tonight? Dawson pulled off two very good saves again, their keeper could have sat on the bus watching the champions league games.

[Nardendee]

Can?t understand this.
You have to take into account our injury list and Burtons form going into the game notwithstanding their huge cup win at the weekend, albeit against non league opposition.

They have now gone 5 away games unbeaten
Drew 1-1 at Donny
Won 1-0 at AFC Wimbledon
Won 1-0 at Cardiff
Drew 0-0 at Huddersfield

They have only lost 2 away games this season and they were the first 2, at Barnsley and Stockport, both by the odd goal on 9th and 23rd August respectively.
They have been very good away, only conceded 1 goal in their last 4 away games as shown above.

They have a really good manager and are a very dangerous team. So to come back from 2-0 down with no recognised central defence against a defensively sound team, I reckon is a good result.

I wasn?t disappointed at the loss in the Cup as the league is far more important for us. A month ago we were wondering where our next win was coming from and now we are up to 12th. Yes I know it is very tight but in the light of adversity through injuries I think the results have been commendable, but tonight Burton certainly deserved to get something out of the game and we take the point and move on.