Overall a poor display with very few bright spots. I know it's only a friendly and I know they're a premier league team, but we were not at the races.
The principal difference was the speed of their game, running, passing and thinking. We looked truly pedestrian.
The bad news first:
- we desperately need a LB. Chicksen looked like a kid thrown into a man's game. Nowhere near good enough.
- Calderon was poor, just like against Crawley.
- Greer's distribution hasn't improved
- Jake has not upped his game one iota from last season. Without a massive improvement he is nowhere near what we need in central midfield.
- Fenelon may have potential, but based on tonight's performance he is nowhere near first team standard.
- CMS was utter rubbish. Not sure what has happened to him, but whatever it is is not good.
The good news:
- another great goal from KLL (as a result of a defensive error). He also had our only other shot (I believe). At least he looked like he could make things happen.
- Rohan Ince had a good game apart from giving the ball away for their 3rd goal.
- Hughes looked OK.
Apart from that:
- O'Grady: a few flashes of good football, but not impressed
- Toko not given much time and seemed to do more fouling than the rest of the team combined.
-Crofts worked hard, but things were not happening for him.
- Agustein looked pretty good
- Dunk had a decent half
- one or two lovely pieces of football from Solly, but was not involved enough
- Buckley looked quite lively, but not given long.
- Bruno looked a lot better than Calderon
Can only get better .... I hope!
The principal difference was the speed of their game, running, passing and thinking. We looked truly pedestrian.
The bad news first:
- we desperately need a LB. Chicksen looked like a kid thrown into a man's game. Nowhere near good enough.
- Calderon was poor, just like against Crawley.
- Greer's distribution hasn't improved
- Jake has not upped his game one iota from last season. Without a massive improvement he is nowhere near what we need in central midfield.
- Fenelon may have potential, but based on tonight's performance he is nowhere near first team standard.
- CMS was utter rubbish. Not sure what has happened to him, but whatever it is is not good.
The good news:
- another great goal from KLL (as a result of a defensive error). He also had our only other shot (I believe). At least he looked like he could make things happen.
- Rohan Ince had a good game apart from giving the ball away for their 3rd goal.
- Hughes looked OK.
Apart from that:
- O'Grady: a few flashes of good football, but not impressed
- Toko not given much time and seemed to do more fouling than the rest of the team combined.
-Crofts worked hard, but things were not happening for him.
- Agustein looked pretty good
- Dunk had a decent half
- one or two lovely pieces of football from Solly, but was not involved enough
- Buckley looked quite lively, but not given long.
- Bruno looked a lot better than Calderon
Can only get better .... I hope!