Theatre of Trees
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Thought we played 4-1-3-2 myself but Revell dropped so deep at times it left Forster isolated up front. Certainly wasn't 4-5-1, O'Callaghan was given the position between the defence and the other midfielders to get his foot on the ball and pass it out of defence and for that reason we looked a better footballing team today even if we did misfire for the first 60 minutes not helped by O'Callaghan having to go off for 10 minutes to get stitches in the first half and Elphick to get patched up for a similar amount of time early in the second.
Both goals were down to poor defensive errors, I thought Kuipers took his eye off the ball for the first as he seemed to run from one post to another before realising that a grasscutter of a volley managed to elude every leg between the edge of the D and the six yard box and find him hopelessly out off position. For the second Tommy Elphick let the forward get in front of him and he knew he'd made that error.
Substitions were good today and for the first time we seemed to have a bench capable of making changes, Rents and Robinson coming on on the left injected some pace into proceedings and we started to move up a gear before Bas came on and gave their defence no end of problems and even after gifting them a second there was a certain sense we would get something out of it. Don't know if anybody else noticed it but Hammond called Rents over before he took the corner to tell him exactly where he wanted the ball placed for him to run onto.
), Hammond was quiet. Looked much better with the 4-4-2, although it was only when Robinson and Savage were introduced we started to really look like scoring. Hopefully 4-4-2 from the start against Millwall, and Savage must start.