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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 17:20:28
Player ratings are flattering to Saints. Despite this astonishing and record breaking win, Saints won in this fashion because Sunderland were absent from the South Coast for the whole afternoon after the 12th minute. This fact does not diminish our achievement, but it's not helping the realistic evaluation of our players.
What a proud moment to be a Saint today!
Instead of boasting the fantastic team we have, let's concentrate on the next game and wish for other 3 points. |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 21:28:48
Brilliant win in more ways than one. It's the whole team playing its game for the whole 90 minutes. You can only expect a bit more ruthlessness, as well as trying to avoid the question "how long can in last this way". It's just great to be a Saints fan these days, thanks to everyone: NC, MoPo and staff, the players and supporters. |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 17:05:09
So important in terms of our process of going places and maturing as a team: keeping tight, trying to hold concentration and ruthlessly exploit our chances. Today it worked, a big thanks to Boruc and the defensive department. We still lack the extra creativity up front though. |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 15:18:00
Another great win with accomplished performance. What looked like a potential heartbreaking clash with NA turned out to be a pretty uneventful encounter on the touchlines.
However, we have to thank Reading's toothless attackers for giving us the 3 points without more fight.
About the penalty and goal shouts:
1) Funny, one site just reported Hooi's tackle as "agricultural" - now, I have never been a big fan of Hooi's, but to be fair he did nothing wrong - a good challenge with absolutely no real reason for a pen.
2) Boruc - maybe at times today he looked over-confident, but he managed to push the ball off the line in the last dying moment: great decision. Absolutely no goal: and I'm trying to be truly unbiased here.
Overall: despite our defencive frailties (if not the panic would have been funny), what a joy to watch the guys going forward. A little more concentration/accuracy and we will be smashing.
COYR |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 17:07:21
What a brilliant team effort! We have every reason to be happy: again, it's great to be a Saints fan today.
Everybody that played deserves high praise, and special cheers to all our fans who again proved SMS to be such a vivid ground!
It is however a strange, strange game: so much effort and team spirit and we still could have easily drawn or even lost: the costly lapses of defensive astuteness, both our keepers' kicking, Lampard's freekicks - it wouldn't have been fair, but it was a real possibility till the 90th minute. So let's not get carried away: Reading will be very tough, we should back the boys right until the very end even if the score is not in our favor.
But after all - let's just be happy! Hero status to SRL, Spider and Cork, rising careers for JRod, Clyne and Shaw, incredible support: today we proved that we are definitely a club on the up. Thank you guys! |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 17:14:17
Oh so sweet!
Big big cheers to everyone involved with the win. Having in mind how we started - the early gift from Shaw and a couple of scary slip ups - it was a great day underlining our spirit, so long may this continue.
Imo we won the game after the first 15 mins of the 2nd half. Huge credit to the boys for managing to close the opposition. After that it was the pure pleasure of seeing everybody in home shirts maturing on the pitch.
Credit must go to Liverpool - they allowed us to play football and I guess it was a very nice game to watch for the neutrals.
Incredible result, glorious team effort. Must work wonders for the remaining games. But tbh it was partly because LFC's style was not too different from ours. Chelsea is going to be a very, very big ask.
Oh so sweet. |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 19:32:25
As I told last week: we're not a crappy side, it's the mental approach and concentration that was lacking in the QPR game.
Unfortunately, the lack of striking prowess made a hard-fought battle look like a dull one. So we must be thankful to Artur for saving the day.
Next 2 games are not to be written off moaning wise: we must keep the focus, players and supporters. Here comes the real crossroad: we will either materialise the fighting spirit or be sinking. Hope MoPo shows his real character by then. |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 17:25:50
What a sad day. But one we should always keep in our minds - imo it was not about individual errors. It was about not being really prepared for the game. Call it complacency, lack of concentration, over-confidence - we never really clicked for the whole 90 minutes: a decent if not good side being blatantly disjointed. As if we were expecting QPR to beat themselves offering us easy opportunities to shine.
I'm really not keen to criticise the tactics and game plans. It's more the mental inconsistency we show towards the opposition that worries me. We had the momentum early 2nd half and we lost it. So a tough dogfight awaits. So be it. |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 22:53:38
Two things can be said about this tricky game:
1) The players showed real determination under complicated circumstances, so it was very pleasing to see their response on the pitch;
2) It was nice to see the will to shoot and try half-chances. Even though we didn't score, the fact is that more players tried Howard. Let's hope this will become a tendency.
A very mature reaction from the fans, it seems the most difficult part in the situation is behind us. We simply must continue to back the team, especially with ManU's game next. However it was just strange to experience several moments of complete silence during the game - I can't remember such quiet moments at SMS in the last years. |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 09:07:53
Great display - an incredible boost to our self esteem.
However the pattern is there: we shouldn't look surprised and scared when gifted the ball in attacking positions. From JRod's inaccurate shot in the 2nd minute to the end of the 1st half we had some 4-5 attacks that could have been better developed. We should kick with more beleif and this is one of the things NA should emphasize in preparing the team mentally for the rest of the games, especially with the big guns. Here we come! |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 17:27:49
Villa looked dead and buried in the first 7 minutes of the second half. We didn't score a second and that is worrying - we gifted them the initiative carelessly, as you can't be 100% concentrated throughout the whole game. So this lead to Villa's desperate push in the closing stages. It looked as if their destiny was to kill themselves - had a couple of their changes were finished "normally", it could have been our logical and deserved undoing. A very lucky win indeed, but I hope it would work wonders for our confidence.
The Chelsea result makes me expect two scenarios on Wednesday: they will either take us by storm with a 3 or 4-0 ending, or will struggle to motivate themselves, thus giving us a chance for setting something of a surprise.
We really shold improve our attitude towards a second goal in matches of that type - otherwise it will be a very stupid loss of points this season. I don't expect so many heavenly gifts in the remaining games.
Nevertheless, a good approach from NA. I was somehow expecting to see Tadanari in the closing minutes, however given the circumstances De Ridder was the right substitution.
Final conclusion: we should really have more belief to keep calm and score more goals when having the lead. |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 22:18:19
I fully understand the disappointment of the points dropped and 2nd half performance, but in terms of football logic this was a good point gained and an OK overall display.
It's very very easy to point what tactics NA had to introduce halfway through the 2nd half, but he had a clear game plan and everybody stuck to it. All we can do is accept their equalizer as it was - just stunning, out of nowhere (as we accept our 2nd and 3rd).
The penalty: it was definitely not foul play by Fonte - at least to the extent the press reports say. It was definitely unintentional as Fonte didn't move his arm towards the ball and Jones's head was right there, probably making contact with Fonte's hand.
We still got to learn in the Prem and we all should give ourselves a little more patience and mature as fans: yes NA could have tinkered with players/tactics but I think it would have had an even worse effect - Stoke were really determined and wild in the air, absolutely motivated, their fans were (like ours) amazing and it was their wondergoal that did them justice. However we are not far away from showing a mature, professional display from start to finish. What I like in our side is that in most of the games we show real spirit, no one can deny that and that's really important. Results will come, believe it or not. |
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