Just down the road from me so i popped along to this.
Draw would of been a fair result, both teams had good spells without being too threatening and then odd chances, fairly even overall.
Lads done well, City had at 3 or 4 regular first teamers out.
Here's a question for you all, bet you can't guess what the most frustrating part of the night was? Here's a clue : McAleny is about 4 ft tall and was being marked by 6 ft plus defenders.
Ok go :
Ok, you at the back who didn't say the constant long balls aimed up at him which came straight back, you're banned.
Everyone else, well done, even the bumpkin next to me recongised how stupid it was.
Appeared to be playing 4-4-1-1 with McAleny up front and Baxter in the hole. Both guys showed niced glimpes of good stuff, Baxters experience showed at times but at others he looked like he couldn't be arsed.
Lundstram took his goal well, made a few good tackles in midfield. Forshaw linked up well with Baxter and McAleny at times and looked threatening going forward the three of them.
Bidwell looked good at left back, seemed to be organising the defence and made a few good forays up the left hand side.
Unfortunatly the rest of the defence, Nsiala, Dier and Browning did'nt look too sharp, little bit slow to react to things. Nsiala seems good in the air though.
After we took the lead we looked good for a win unfortunatly we decided to do some comedy defending and gift them 2 goals.
First one they went down our left and knocked a low hard ball in to the area, defender lunged to block and missed, then Davies in goal seemed to fumble it and let it creep in at his near post.
Made amends a few mins later with a good penalty save before being too slow to a little ball over the top, their attacker rounded him and seemed to shoot from the byline and the ball ended up being knocked in by a defender running back, not sure how exactly it went in.
