Posted by DavidB on September 19, 2009, 9:59 pm, in reply to "City 1 Tiverton 0"
Quite a boring game with neither side creating any real chances, still Fordy insists on again starting with a 4-1-4-1 formation which the players seem unable to play or understand. Like last weeks game after changing to a 4-4-2 formation City looked more lively and started to control the game. Come on Fordy no one will criticise you for realising your starting formation does not work and change to a formation more suited for the players you have to work with. Anyway the players give their all especially the defence and overall deserved the 3 points.
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: Not sure whether to question Mike Ford's
: initial team selection or praise his
: substitutions, but City wouldn't have scored
: in six hours against a well-organised Tivvy
: defence today while playing Craig
: Faulconbridge on his own up front. Craig
: needs a partner to flick or lay it off to,
: and with no-one else there, all City's long
: balls forward were wasted. This made for an
: utterly tedious first half. In the second
: they kept the ball down and passed it more,
: though quite a few passes were still going
: astray, even from Sav. It wasn't till Lee
: Steele came on that we started to look
: lively up front, and by that time poor Craig
: was tiring. Mark Janes was a bfreath of
: fresh air. Great ball from Liam, who had a
: good game, to set Mark off on the run that
: led to the goal. Cool finish by Lee stood
: out in a game where everyone else seemed in
: too much of a hurry.
:
: Good performances from Clarke, Gunn and
: Baird meant that Tivvy didn't get many
: chances to score and it was pleasing to see
: Andy G. returning to form, looking very
: solid. Overall, man of the match for me was
: once again Andy Baird--what a good start to
: the season he has had, in a rich vein of
: form at the moment at both ends of the park.
: But a number of others were off the pace
: today so we struggled to beat a team below
: us. At the end I suppose we just about
: deserved the win because we were the better
: team in the second half, but it was a close
: call. I don't want to be pessimistic, but
: I'm sure most people watching today (and
: there weren't many there, certainly not 200)
: will agree that if we play like that again
: next week our cup run will come to an abrupt
: halt.
:
: Still, by then maybe Fish will be back and
: fresh, and Andy Ballard returned from injury
: so there will be some competition for
: places. Today we couldn't even fill the
: subs' bench!
:
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