Only saw the second half, but it's poles apart from our early season performances.
Things that caught my eye:
Philips sloppy today, just far too casual.
Cooper and Jansson both very solid foundations
Ayling was ok, nothing special but gives extra attacking option.
Klich not influential enough, Harrison maybe the same.
I thought our attacks were just too hesitant, we seem to take far too long to get ball in box and by then Bolton have to many players back.
Some great through balls from Hernandez, but not quite clear cut enough chances.
Alioski......his distribution is painful, it just very rarely reaches a team mate, his goal was a fluke/goalkeeping howler.
Casilla, don't like the punching, not quite convinced on him yet.
Having said all that, this was a hard game, and you can see the nerves are jangling a bit, but the team did what they needed to win and we will surely play better than this in weeks to come.
One wonders when we might see Jack Clarke back as he is a genuine match winner, hopefully he might be available soon.
Thoughts from today
posted on 24/2/19
comment by Wish we had Saiz (U21886)
posted 28 minutes ago
Harrogate, you predicted an easy 5-0 win,now you're making excuses for a scrambled win. Typical head in the sand attitude.
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Did you not predict a Bolton win?
posted on 24/2/19
No, I predicted 3 points.
posted on 24/2/19
No, he just thinks we won't win any of our next five...
posted on 24/2/19
comment by Wish we had Saiz (U21886)
posted 37 minutes ago
No, I predicted 3 points.
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For whom?
posted on 24/2/19
why wouldn't people pick us to beat bolton easily?
we are a much better team. the problem is we aren't putting away our genuine chances and i for one keep expecting that to happen.
thought we were a little sloppy at the back yesterday but still should have won more comfortably.
on tuesday i'll expect us to be a little sharper and bamford to be a little fitter.
posted on 24/2/19
Decent vlog from a Bolton fan on yesterday. I can normally only watch about 20 seconds of these things but this girl is pretty good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Cb_5Fgl1c
posted on 24/2/19
comment by Sol WGUAFC (U2745)
posted 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
Decent vlog from a Bolton fan on yesterday. I can normally only watch about 20 seconds of these things but this girl is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Cb_5Fgl1c
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Yeah she is good! Very fair assessment.
posted on 25/2/19
comment by Wish we had Saiz (U21886)
posted 1 day ago
Harrogate, you predicted an easy 5-0 win,now you're making excuses for a scrambled win. Typical head in the sand attitude.
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I'm not making excuses at all and WON you idiot. Yes I wanted 5-0, but they didn't roll over.
posted on 25/2/19
For what it's worth, I thought Cooper was immense on Saturday. First twenty minutes thought we struggled with their physical strikers, but after that I thought our captain stepped up and won the vast majority of the balls he fought for.
posted on 25/2/19
Coopers been great all season