Has the defence improved? We looked sound for our first three league games. Last week against a good side we were well below par for what we need to achieve to win promotion and that was with Santos. It is up in the air now how long he is going to be out with yesterday's injury.
It looks suspiciously like Toal is still not fit as he wasn't on the bench yesterday. We were originally led to believe that he might be fit to play after the first couple of games. The games are now stretching out and without Santos, we desperately need him.
Yesterday's goal against us was a gift for them, nobody picked up the scorer who had acres of room. We don't put enough effort into closing teams down when they are attacking. Wigan had no problem with that last week.
That game was similar to the women's game against Spain. The Spanish team closed down our players and put pressure on England and there was no evidence of the English girls having the appetite to do the same. We were much the same yesterday.
As for Baxter, I can only hope that our goalkeeper coach can help him to improve quickly. He is definitely not the finished article.
As for our strikers. If Evatt thinks we have the tools to score enough goals this season, I hope that he is right, but the last two games look suspiciously like a re-run of last season, plenty of chances were created but we could only manage one goal against a team that was bottom of the division.
All the talk about new training methods pre-season to achieve more goals looks a little up and down now. I hope that Evatt can get it right because at the moment he has no intention of spending money on a clinical striker. Let's hope that he doesn't need to.
All in all a disappointing couple of games, The Burton game that we should have won if we had designs of going up this season.
It's early days but we need a vast improvement if we are going to stand any chance of promotion.
I think toal will play against Middlesbrough. Think a case of holding him back. Never the plan to play him yesterday. Hopefully he is fully fit and back in the side after the international break. Have missed him, a proper defender.
comment by Bennythedip - Living The Dream (U9359)
posted 2 hours, 54 minutes ago
I think toal will play against Middlesbrough. Think a case of holding him back. Never the plan to play him yesterday. Hopefully he is fully fit and back in the side after the international break. Have missed him, a proper defender.
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I hope that you are right Benny, the main thing is that he is fit and ready to go.
I can picture IE working in his lab today. He'll be working on an experiment for tomorrow night.
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posted on 27/8/23
Has the defence improved? We looked sound for our first three league games. Last week against a good side we were well below par for what we need to achieve to win promotion and that was with Santos. It is up in the air now how long he is going to be out with yesterday's injury.
It looks suspiciously like Toal is still not fit as he wasn't on the bench yesterday. We were originally led to believe that he might be fit to play after the first couple of games. The games are now stretching out and without Santos, we desperately need him.
Yesterday's goal against us was a gift for them, nobody picked up the scorer who had acres of room. We don't put enough effort into closing teams down when they are attacking. Wigan had no problem with that last week.
That game was similar to the women's game against Spain. The Spanish team closed down our players and put pressure on England and there was no evidence of the English girls having the appetite to do the same. We were much the same yesterday.
As for Baxter, I can only hope that our goalkeeper coach can help him to improve quickly. He is definitely not the finished article.
As for our strikers. If Evatt thinks we have the tools to score enough goals this season, I hope that he is right, but the last two games look suspiciously like a re-run of last season, plenty of chances were created but we could only manage one goal against a team that was bottom of the division.
All the talk about new training methods pre-season to achieve more goals looks a little up and down now. I hope that Evatt can get it right because at the moment he has no intention of spending money on a clinical striker. Let's hope that he doesn't need to.
All in all a disappointing couple of games, The Burton game that we should have won if we had designs of going up this season.
It's early days but we need a vast improvement if we are going to stand any chance of promotion.
posted on 27/8/23
I think toal will play against Middlesbrough. Think a case of holding him back. Never the plan to play him yesterday. Hopefully he is fully fit and back in the side after the international break. Have missed him, a proper defender.
posted on 27/8/23
comment by Bennythedip - Living The Dream (U9359)
posted 2 hours, 54 minutes ago
I think toal will play against Middlesbrough. Think a case of holding him back. Never the plan to play him yesterday. Hopefully he is fully fit and back in the side after the international break. Have missed him, a proper defender.
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I hope that you are right Benny, the main thing is that he is fit and ready to go.
posted on 28/8/23
I can picture IE working in his lab today. He'll be working on an experiment for tomorrow night.
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