I was out today so didn’t see or listen to the match. I have just watched the extended highlights and I have to say what a great goal we scored. An excellent cross by Rudoni, great movement by Eccles to come round the back and head it in at the far post. It was a peach of a goal.
A genuine top of the table side would have hung on to that, or at least come away with a draw. But no, we are still vulnerable to a ball popped in behind defenders for a runner getting behind us. Defenders are just being passed out of the game. Their firsts goal Kitching and Dasilva caught out too high and an acre behind them. For a lot of games now Kitching can’t win a tackle or a header to save his life.
Second one shows how weak Sakamoto can be on the ball. Yes he works hard, yes he tracks back, but it is often ineffective. Once he gets turned over again we are vulnerable to a pass in behind the defender to a runner and from there on we are all over the place.
We have to find away to become tighter at the back. Team after team are targeting our weakness, it’s not a player, it is the way we play. The fact we got away with it in the first part of the season, doesn’t mean it wasn’t a weakness or we were not susceptible to giving teams too many chances.
We are still in a very strong position to get promotion. But we need to become harder to beat. It is now time for Frank Lampard and Joe Edward’s to show how good they really are as leaders and tactically.
