WFC_Rob wrote:Sadders wrote:We looked mostly in control for the entire 90 minutes but there's no mistake about it, until about the hour mark our own fans around me were moaning at Westcarr, sighing as we passed like it was a friendly across the defensive midfield zone, with no penetration, nothing clicking, no creativity upfront and just a lack of attacking 'willingness' and were singing for Romaine Sawyers on 3 or 4 occasions. I'm not going to forget 2/3's of a 90 minute match just because the last 30 minutes were epic.
I'm not quite sure what you're expecting from the League One team you support, to be honest. We controlled a third of the game and won convincingly, yet you're suggesting we should be more concerned about the first hour than we are pleased about the last half an hour. By that argument, you'll only ever come away frm a game satisfied when we give someone a real hiding from start to finish. Rarely happens unless you're sat a Old Trafford or Stamford Bridge, I'm afraid.
Wrong.
We played better against Tranmere than yesterday, certainly for longer anyway. Was that played at Old Trafford or did we take the wrong exit off the M6?
I'm sorry but I refuse to look at a game for the final score and a segment of it. We won, for 30 minutes we were very, very good and it could have been more than 3. For the first hour we didn't have a shot on target of note and any team better than Crewe (which there will be a good 15 or so) would have threatened us much more. Hence my point. Not sure why all football fans can't just take an open view on the game over 90 minutes, I absolutely can't stand it when we play well and lose 2-0 and yet the opposition don't state that they didn't deserve it or that they were absolutely amazing.
We were clinical in the final half an hour and gained confidence once we'd scored. Before that we offered nothing but lots of sidewards and backwards. I totally understand we aren't going to dominate 90 minute's of a match anywhere, ever - but to completely ignore the first 60 minutes of a game is frankly, blind bias. Smith's words for the FL Show - 'We took confidence from the first goal' - exactly what we did, we took it and ran and completely dominated the final half hour. Before that it was a shite game, with us having loads of the ball but offering no attacking threat or cohesion between midfield and forwards - simple, just as I stated.
Judging by your comment we must have played like Barcalona for 93 minutes? Absolutely blitzed them, should have won in double figure to nil?! I simply added a bit of a perspective and comment on the overall game. Not once did I say we played cack, or we were crap. The opening 60 minutes there was nothing in it, we weren't great and they were poor. I see no problem with that? It's not like I turned around and said 'My god we won 3-0, but Smith needs to go it should have been 11-0, all the players were turd, sack them all, loan them up' at all. Some people are blinded by a scoreline and it's either the pints being consumed or selective memory to see things that way.