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Noooeees!!!!! Whew! Looks as though he's okay. That really would have been the end of our seasoon with our key player missing.

Watching it? Yes! 🙂

Martin's main objective of massive possession was achieved. We kept them to minimal chances. The accepted gaps down the flank that Martin allows and a chip from distance. As expected with the line up, we lacked any kind of passing connection and fluidity from the centre. We had Fraser and Brooks out there though, as well as KWP pushing up. However, we couldn;t seem to get many passes out to them either. Brooks had the best couple of run in the half, both of which were fairly early. AA had a very good chance to put us into a lead. Apart from that, Stephens got an chip in for an Aribo header. As piinted out, noone was there to follow in. The rest of our mobile front 3 elsewhere, rather than having a standard Che player working the middle.) There's every chance we can win this today. At least we've not dominated with chances as well as possession, getting our hopes up for a standard let down. 🙂

Rothwell made a run. Did we think he was offside there. Seemed odd to not make the pass.

Our play in a nutshell. Martin is willing to offer up the spaces down the flanks. He offsets that by having numbers in the midfield who should dominate and create passes through for the attackers. Except those extra numbers result in disjointed, mostly plodding, posession that doesn't create enough, with the knowledge we're concede somewhere along the way, if not from the gaps.

Press worked on Aribo. Partly as we're not creating the passing angles in midfiled in recent games. Needs Smallbone and not Stephens in a team for that.

Oh... that wasn;t far away from them. Top of the net.

Nor did the double physical presence of the Aribo/ Adams before that... Or the Direct balls over to Sule for a while the time before that... Or.... 🙂

A different injury to a Balckburn player. Shame that Joe's effort didn;t go in or bounce back off the keeper and go in.

Possession is the first priority of MartinBall. We're trying another variation of how to make that effective today. Keeping the strength in midfield with Aribo, but not up front with Che. Having a samey, but hopefully more mobile front 3 in Brooks, AA and Fraser. Losing the crisp, short passing game but hopefully allowing more direct play through Stephens and Rothwell.

Couple of decent runs form both sides. Looks like their regular goalscorer is still struggling.

Che would have.... ah... never mind 🙂

That was another one across from Brooks. AA was unmarked, so that looked like a very good chance. Tried to get too slight a touch on it to guide it in?

Decent run from Brooks. I was waiting for one of our cutbacks there to AA.

I'd have had Che in there. Either Fraser or Brooks. Hopefully Rothwe and Brooks' are better in Martin's system and don't leave our defense exposed.

Fleetwood Mac agree... Can you hear me calling Out your name? You know that I'm failing And I don't know what team to play I'll shoehorn you in Mess the line up about I'll put others in the bin My footballing genius will out Oh, I I want to play Stephens everywhere Oh, I I want to play Stephens everywhere

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2 -1 to us today. But we get an early fright.

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