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Another good ball in. Adams from not far out.... misses the connection.

Such a good run from Smallbone. We've been making lots of these runs. Often, they've not come to anything as it's Smallbone making the pass and he's gone sideways. 🙂

Again, nice link up between Alcaraz and Edozie. This time he doesn;t go on a surging run. He just moves forward and wallops it it. There's doesn;t look offisde. But then, we had some decisions against us harshly in the first half. I'm preferring it to VAR.

Offside. Whittaker was so much better than Manning there. Meanwhile, Alcaraz!!!!!!

Alcaraz lining up for that one. Good play form him and Edozie. Elsewhere, we had a load of runners. But Smallbone played it across.

Manning concedes a corner a bit needlessly there.

So good from Alcaraz there. Good change of pace to get right through. Good to see that from him.

That looked like a corner all day.

Smallbone managed to take the ball away from getting to Adams there. Nice link up between Manning and Edozie.

Witho no height in the box, things like Manning's and now KWP's deliveires are wasted. KWP looking to get even more central and take the game on (he did have a better passing option in Smallbone in one of them though)

Oooft... from Manning. That was wasted.

Shame one of our gusys didn;t manage to control that really well delivered ball from Baz.

81% possession. Loads of lovely passing, exploiting space and movements. Plenty of balls across their box. Only 2 shots on target though. We're using the squad tonight. Lots of bright moments, but we have the experience, form and quality of Stu, Aribo and Fraser in the second half to grab the game. We were very dominant. Argyll had some counters though, as per our usual drawbacks. Also as normal these days, we were organised in stopping them. If anything, we dropped off our tempo as we looked for new ways of getting at their goal. Sky put up 110 successful passes in the final third, to their 8. That sums up the dominance.

Lovely move. Manning gets it in. But defelcted.

Oooh. Good ball in for Adams. He controls it well, but just doesn;t get the connection. Better.

Manning picks up a yellow for stop[ping another counter. We're getting more vulnerable to that has the half has progressed. While at the same time, not getting anywhere near as many chances ourselves. We;ve managed to tire ourselves out attacking. 🙂

Edozie gets back for the challenge. Well done, as earlier in the season, he left his player on occassion. Pacy and we needed that, as we've taken a couple of breakaway chances at the back tonight.

Adams right there on the back post for a tap in. Couldn;t reach him.

KWP does really well. Smallbone in the correct position. But that final ball didn;t have enough pace on it. It's, again, that final ball, Sometimes feeling it's enough to get it into the right area, without quite getting the pace, accuracy quite right. Another very tight offside there. Smallbone picking up Charles' obligatory yellow card.

They are even more compact now. A little foray to test our gap on the flank. AA is, if anything, too far back. we need a clone of him to be in a forward position too.

Bednarek capable and composed. Having that solid foundation with THB makes such a difference to how much we can push up confidently.

Smalbone in a solid shooting position. But he was always covered. Could have done with AA on stilts to get on the end of that header.

There's been a bit of chat about how we've changed and developed our system. But we're occassionally still only a Smallbone outpacing their attacker away from it being a 1-1 with Baz. Our opponents are usually just happy to get it clear of late, so haven;t capitalised and we're aware of it being a weakness.

Decision makeing form Edozie. He did well to get that space to put a ball into the box. We had people there. He chooses to cut back again instead, and it comes to nothing.

Beeb had us at 82% possession.