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U's up and running tonight against the Dons 18:49 - Aug 15 with 3595 views

Before we focus on the first home game of the season against the Dons this evening let’s just relive a couple of moments from the weekend match at Valley Parade.

Now a few facts included not to excuse the result but to put things into context. After the weather intervention that forced the Swindon postponement the U’s spent 20 hours in their coach travelling to Cardiff and then to Bradford. They played 105 minutes at Cardiff and 118 at Bradford.

Perhaps unlucky not to have shaded the game in the Welsh Capital, the suspension for three matches of Samson Tovide has hit the club hard.

More though was the defeat at Bradford where in the first half the U’s ran the Bantams ragged and should have been two goals to the good before the referee managed to find 9 additional minutes at the end of the first half.

BG lined up:
Goodman
Lawrence Dallison Hall
Tchamadeu Bandeira Read Iandolo
Chilvers
Hopper Taylor

Subs:
Hornby Kazeem Février Jay Ihionvien Akinde Greenidge
Bandeira off Fevrier on 65 mins
Hopper off Akinde on 65 mins
Taylor off Ihionvien on 75 mins
Iandolo off Jay on 84 mins
Dallison off Greenidge on 85 mins

The U’s started well out of the blocks and Taylor was very exciting to watch. Pacy, inventive, hard working and a real live wire. He deserved his goal and was aided by the classy Bandeira.

However, Arthur Read was undoubtedly the best player on the field. His challenges were spot on and his distribution to either wing was impressive.

Nico Lawrence is pacy and gets forward well, unfortunately on occasions he can be caught out of position and then sprints to get goal side of the attacker.

I thought Hall was a little ponderous on the ball particularly second half. Chilvers worked hard but lacked the killer pass when well placed.

That brings us to Junior Tchamadeu. Now I really don’t know what the situation is at Stoke. They either want him or not and will either part with £1.5m or not. I suggested on Saturday that he should be left on the bench because however hard he tries to suggest otherwise he wants to go and we didn’t see any of those lung busting runs on Saturday that we saw in abundance last season and he should have scored as well.

Our signing from Charlton Mandela Egbo (eligible to play tonight) suggest that Junior will be going this week.

Mark Hughes was clearly under pressure and was rightly booked for his behaviour in the first half. Of course, once they took the lead he was sweetness and light.

So, another defeat at Valley Parade and a game that like last season we dominated for long periods but could not turn our superiority into goals.

Tonight, brings AFC Wimbledon under Johnnie Jackson and with Harry Pell in their ranks to the JCS.

Let’s go with:

Goodman

Egbo Dallison Hall

Lawrence Badeira Read Iandolo

Chilvers

Akinde Taylor

Subs
Hornby Kazeem Greenidge Hopper Ihionvien Fevrier Jay

Weather will be dry, 20 degrees Celsius and sunshine

Score Col U 2 Wimbledon 0
Taylor and Bandeira

Enjoy the game

Up the U’s

Durham_exile

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