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I hope Edozies' sigh when getting the ball was just him being resigned to having to stop. He's just on, so can;t be a sigh of exhaustion running for it. 🙂

Aribo has made an excellent contribution since coming on. A solid impact sub today.

THB drops off so the touch we got ends up leading right to them having a go over Baz. That would have been as annoying as their first one, undoing a lot of decent play.

Ah... that would be a nice one from Fraser. Surely, he watched the Rotherham game to watch how 'keepers are chipped. 🙂

Nice from Aribo. He's looking a bit more mobile today too.

Yessssss!!!!!!!

Well done Baz. He's been pushing us up for a while now. We've had good runners in Fraser and AA, with no spupply. So, now Baz has a target in Aribo, he's using that.

Less experience with the newer subs. But if Martin has been training them on their roles in these positions, we should be fine. Jo gets us a foul. Just need to be managing this one smartly.

Smallbone got clobbered a bit there. Every bit a yellow. Handy, as we were running out of passing options there. Getting some passing moves togetehr again though. Noting Cam's comment. 🙂

We get the foul, take a second. Sule going off for Fraser. So, Aribo and Fraser to replicate the wider threat we showed from the first half. No doubt Fraser will be keepn to take up space in the middle, so hopefully a bit of a team up with AA there. Just need the pace of play to be getting it up to them, to worry their back line.

Really good Baz clearance there.

Brave post. 🙂

His mere presence is unsettling them. 🙂

Alcaraz for Aribo. So, keeping a pacy central option then. 🙂

Yeah. Subs can;t be far away. Just to get some energy back in. But they have to come on firing, and help us keep a shape. We have brough players on and it's fallen to pieces even more. Which subs will we get today. 🙂

W aren;t a phsycial side. So we're never going to outfight a team. AA is showing that we have to outwork them, stretching the game. I was thinking Alcaraz's shot just gave back possession. But their keeper had a bit of a fumble with it in the wet.

Martin;s half time team talks seem to have this effect. 🙂

Oh, they got a chance there. I thought it was going to go through Baz there. Fortunately, it was his legs it hit and not his hands. 🙂 Good pass from them to split our defence. Anotehr effort form them, has a player in loads of space behind our centre halves. We just need to epxloit the space they must be leaving. But we're floundering a bit, with a lot of noise from their support.

THB seems to win the header, but it comes off of their guy's shoulder. DOwn to where we have to control it, in th emoment that takes, their player is in and Baz has no chance. >sigh< Noted it's another direct attack that we conced from. We just have to get back to the tempo we had first half. AA's shot hit one of their's hands. COntrol, tempo, incisiveness.

Sub makes an insta contribution, courtesy of us makign a defensive fluff up.

Imcomplete pass from Smallbone. Just to show he can do one, it seems today. Meanwhile a lovely Stu ball into the box. AA had made the run, and noone else following in on the other side (which Martin has pointed out)

Oh... another nearly one for AA. Lovely run into the middle from him. More of those for him, and the goals will come.

Good to see us shift out a bit quicker in good positions to stop follow up shots from set pieces. Smallbone gets in another block there too.

Stu... ah. good space for the shot.

Smallbone puts in a massive amount of running, and is expected to pick up a lot of roles in the team. Some of the more attacking one, Alcaraz is better at. But he'd be wasted, and possibly not as ogood at a lot of the more defensive, link up and heavy lifitng ones. It will be interesting to see how Martin goes with it.