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[Arabknight]

Every match this year and most of last JG tries to sit on a lead and it bites us.

But also the depth of subbies is just not good enough.

Can?t blame JG for subbies. We are unbelievably unlucky with the amount of injuries.

The lads gave everything last night. Although disappointed with the result. I?m not disappointed with JG or the players.

The supporters and atmosphere last night was amazing.

Said it after the hearts game. If we had the majority of players fit. I don?t think they would have beat us and I felt the same last night.

🖤🧡

[bannon_ftd_83]

Firstly Fantastic performance for most of the night. Sibald unreal. Two massive glaring problems though. What the **** are we doing at defensive corners. It's a total mess. Nobody on back post last night yet again and we look terrified. The second issue is the exact same as against hearts. This has to be a Goodwin decision. The sitting back inviting constant pressure, then just allowing the ball to come in from wide. Its basically one big self destruct button we press and allow teams into the game for what? I'm just not getting it. Especially last night when we tried it with no actual pace to hit them on the counter. Fatah ain't ever running in behind, he needs the ball to feet and runners off him. On that, I thought Stirton had a poor game, not his usual bust a gut performance. Miller Thomson was excellent though and I think has shown he could be playing a bit more.

[NOSCOTCAPS]

Firstly Fantastic performance for most of the night. Sibald unreal. Two massive glaring problems though. What the **** are we doing at defensive corners. It's a total mess. Nobody on back post last night yet again and we look terrified. The second issue is the exact same as against hearts. This has to be a Goodwin decision. The sitting back inviting constant pressure, then just allowing the ball to come in from wide. Its basically one big self destruct button we press and allow teams into the game for what? I'm just not getting it. Especially last night when we tried it with no actual pace to hit them on the counter. Fatah ain't ever running in behind, he needs the ball to feet and runners off him. On that, I thought Stirton had a poor game, not his usual bust a gut performance. Miller Thomson was excellent though and I think has shown he could be playing a bit more.

Agree with what you have said in the main. They were there for the taking, had we just believed and pressed a little more. A few of their players on yellows and had we pressed there may have been a red imminently; they were at it with the little tug backs etc. I also do not understand why Dolcek (left footed) is played on the right hand side and the opposite with Fatah I.e. left hand side. Otherwise it was a great night bar the result and what seemed like unsportsmanlike behaviour by their players not shaking hands at the end and choosing to celebrate with their fans more so and ignoring the traditional ?hard luck? commiserations. I only saw one of their players do this and he was a sub.


Unlucky United but we go again, with what is a brilliant fan base who deserve a mention in despatches!

[arab777]

Kucherenko had a brilliant game but in the penalty shoot out I don't know why he kept diving to his right when the penalties were all going to his left. They were good penalties that may have gone in anyway but just a wee niggle.

[cybershed]

Can?t blame JG for subbies. We are unbelievably unlucky with the amount of injuries.

The lads gave everything last night. Although disappointed with the result. I?m not disappointed with JG or the players.

The supporters and atmosphere last night was amazing.

Said it after the hearts game. If we had the majority of players fit. I don?t think they would have beat us and I felt the same last night.

🖤🧡

Absolutley agree AK.

Given the injury crisis, Goodwin and the threadbare squad did really well. If we had had more senior options available on the bench, I'm fairly sure we would have been able to match them in the 2nd half and win the game in the 90 minutes.

Oh, and that fecker that took out Sapsford for the penalty should have been red carded. Really dangourous and malicous tackle. I reckon Saps will be now be out for a couple of months. Maybe longer.

Great chance for Stirton towards the end of ET. No criticism from me though. He's still young and early on in tems of his development and career.

****e luck for Amar Fatah at the 1st penalty. Struck it well, sent keeper the wrong way, just an inch or two from being the perfect penalty.

Thought Kucherenko could have done a bit better at a couple of their pens. Seemed to chose his side too quickly, making it easy for the penalty taker. He did the same vs Shankland's pen last weekend. But, I'm not blaming him for the defeat. He made a couple of cracking saves during the match.

We certainly had Rapid worried. Despite the gulf in resources, and if they are to be honest, they will feel very relieved to have got through after we had them on the ropes at HT.

[JUSTaway]

Great couple of matches, really enjoyed them. We did seem to get set in the second half, and when you sustain that amount of pressure, it inevitably tells, but I think you also just have to acknowledge the quality of the opposition in pushing you back. I haven't seen the corner back, but disappointing to lose another goal from corner, and nobody closed the cross down on the second, but there were plenty of blocks etc... throughout the match, eventually something will get through.

I thought the keeper stood up well last night, his dealing with crosses etc... was actually excellent, but he became all Benjamin Siergrist at the penalties and never got near them. I just hope we can channel the frustration, disappointment and positives from last night into the season now, and use that as hunger to get back in europe, and please god no more injuries, that has seriously hurt us in trying to get through. If we can get players back and work on certain elements such as defending set plays (we have been poor at attack and defending corners despite all the big men) we have the potential to have a good/very good season. Also need another striker, don't think Stirton ready to be a mainstay striker, more cameos and coming in for starts here and there this season.

[JUSTaway]

Also ironic after all the talk of foreigners in our team we ended up with 5 Scots in our team, and 4 youth products! Fact 4 defenders ended up taking pens could be seen as indicative of our injuries too. Hopefully Fatah doesn't dwell on his pen miss too much, he showed some exciting potential.

[JUSTaway]

And save the tannoy music for the opponents next penalty contest!

[Arabdownsouth]

Absolutley agree AK.

Given the injury crisis, Goodwin and the threadbare squad did really well. If we had had more senior options available on the bench, I'm fairly sure we would have been able to match them in the 2nd half and win the game in the 90 minutes.

Oh, and that fecker that took out Sapsford for the penalty should have been red carded. Really dangourous and malicous tackle. I reckon Saps will be now be out for a couple of months. Maybe longer.

Great chance for Stirton towards the end of ET. No criticism from me though. He's still young and early on in tems of his development and career.

****e luck for Amar Fatah at the 1st penalty. Struck it well, sent keeper the wrong way, just an inch or two from being the perfect penalty.

Thought Kucherenko could have done a bit better at a couple of their pens. Seemed to chose his side too quickly, making it easy for the penalty taker. He did the same vs Shankland's pen last weekend. But, I'm not blaming him for the defeat. He made a couple of cracking saves during the match.

We certainly had Rapid worried. Despite the gulf in resources, and if they are to be honest, they will feel very relieved to have got through after we had them on the ropes at HT.

Jim was talking about trying to get Zac ready for Sunday so maybe not all that bad,he did play on a few minutes afterwards so maybe just some bruising or slight sprain? Doubt he'll be playing on Sunday but hopefully fit for the derby.

[PT_Arab]

This was the first game I have attended for a while. Thoroughly enjoyed it, but obviously disappointed at the result. I thought we did really well against a quality side that no one gave us a chance of beating. Definitely felt like I got the full ?17 worth out of that game.

Couple of observations - I thought our midfield pretty much evaporated in the second half. Our defending started at the edge of our own box, when it should start much further up the pitch. Similar in an attacking midfield capacity - shortly after Owen Stirton came on, he got the ball and tried to go forward. When he ran out of space, there was no one ahead of him to pass to so he turned back looking for a pass and there was no one there either. So we lost the ball and set up another dangerous attack for them.

Kucherenko at penalties (both last night and v Hearts) he just seems to dive to his right every time, and it's almost as though the Rapid players knew this. He never got a sniff. Is that a strategy? Keep diving to the right and eventually you'll guess the right way?

I think the outcome of the tie could have been different had Sapsford come back out for the second half, but we'll never know. Pretty annoying one that.

I just hope we can put the disappointment to one side and refocus for the rest of the season. I think it was after the Mypa debacle that certain players lost interest and our season unraveled.

I don't see us getting past Kilmarnock on Sunday - I just think the shortage of players, the tiredness and the disappointment will be too much. I would love to be wrong obviously.