Oldham Athletic 1 v 0 Salford City Papa John's Trophy Tuesday, 31st August 2021 Kick-off 19:00 |
Bettwsresident added 10:47 - Apr 10 Another good game for Mane and VVD who is Mr consistent. Always at 7 or better in my scoring. Scrappy game overall, but 3 pt is 3pts. The Toon looked awful, a shell of the side we played at the start of the season, but they tend to when they come down to play us. It will be a different prem without this . Dikki_Gutz added 12:54 - Apr 10 I thought they were excellent first half and some enjoyable football albeit with no opposition. Perhaps if Koeman had got injured during the warm up instead of Austin the second half might have been a bit better to watch. His continual tinkering ruined the shape and of course bringing Ward Prowse on is guaranteed to kill off anything and seemed to demorilise the other players as they have to cover for him all the time. burty added 13:01 - Apr 10 francisbowles added 16:04 - Apr 10 A bright opening evolved into a mainly flat and uninspiring first half. I was wondering whether there would be any boos at ht but then Phillips scored and cheered the place up. A very entertaining but scrappy second 45 followed where several chances were created by both sides. Charlton pressed hard in the closing stages in a desperate need for three points but a combination of poor finishing and Smithies denied them. Then came El Kayate's wonder goal, the one moment of true outfield quality in the game. Smithies impressive again, and Kayate and Robinson worthy of praise although it's only one goal and one debut performance,so important not too get carried away. Bettwsresident added 07:12 - Apr 17 Tough to watch....We hammered them. Need to go back to shooting school, this happened too much last season. Tadic had his best game for a season and even Yosh looked solid. FatCat added 16:34 - Apr 17 A great day out with The Exiles. Met a good bunch at the ground and afterwards at the Cem. A deserved 3-0 win that could have been more but Tuesday v Gillingham beckons. Blackpool not up to much but what chances they had where dealt with by Dale. Will be back for next year's Exiles day. Harbour added 17:37 - Apr 17 First time visit to Cardiff boring first half, second half we pushed on but no real chances other than ingrams making a couple of fine saves,,,our supporters got more enjoyment watching the locals making idiots of themselves than anything off the pitch,,,,the ground lacked atmosphere and Cardiff were very poor for a side trying to get in the top 6 good point for the rest in a dire match IWOZTHERE added 20:54 - Apr 17 Still say it's not the strikers, like at home we just can't seem to break down a massed defence when we dominate. Final ball hurried resulting in few clearcut chances. That aside, I thought it was our most commanding performance of the season for what it's worth. SaintBrock added 19:17 - Apr 23 Very one sided affair, we should have scored a lot more goals and we became very casual and sloppy at the back. Need to get our act together fast in training this week or Man C will carve us to pieces. Nice win 'though and clearly we were a class above although as Villa are now a championship side this is hardly surprising. Tadic and others keep saying we must improve and sort out some of our lapses in attack and defence but overall we are still erratic and wasteful so one wonders whether this is how it will always be with this group of players. Still, they look as 'though they enjoy playing together and some serious bonding is taking place in the squad so keep them all here for next season and we might just surprise even ourselves. Geoff78 added 19:49 - Apr 23 At least Kpekawa got some game time, understandably nervous but signs of growing confidence towards the end. Ingram looked sound, Faulin at least tried and made a few tackles. Chery my MoM, for buzzing around and looking livelier than most even though he seemed to have mislaid his shooting boots. Polter's enthusiasm unable to conceal a dreadful first touch and Luongo doesn't seem physically strong enough for the middle of midfield, but did manage a few creative moments. Unfortunately although there were spells when we put a few passes together, we gave it away as much as any game this season. If you weren't there you didn't miss much.
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