Thought he did OK on his first full game for well over a year. He understandably tired second half and I thought he was becoming a liability at that stage and was screaming at the TV for him to be substituted. But, fair play to the lad. He seemed to get his second wind and was a big part of the possession football we played in the last 10/15 minutes to see the game out.
I did enjoy the keep ball at the end, not entertaining but good game management, something we've been short of for a while. I know they'd probably lost heart but we snuffed out any chance of a feisty ending.
Disagree on them losing heart bit mate. They were throwing in some tackles during that spell, had one booking and could easily have had another. The control of the ball we showed was excellent I thought, although I was still a tad frustrated that we missed a few through ball opportunities to possibly score a second. But I suppose it was all about seeing the tie out by that stage.
yeah maybe mukka, that was my thought (that they'd lost heart) at the time but of course, it could have been that we were just very good at passing it around. It was nice to see. The forward passes never really worked tonight, certainly in the first half DCL was making some good runs early and across the line that had he eother been picked out or a ball popped over the defence, he would have been through. It will come though.
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