Collins 5
Maybe the goals weren’t his fault but I’ve seen keepers regularly tip shots like the second goal around the post fairly often. He doesn’t command and his speed and awareness of distribution is poor. There’s lots made of our XG and often opposition keepers pull great saves off. Our keeper isn’t upper Championship standard.
MVE 7
I don’t understand why he gets flack, often tracks back and breaks up opposition attacks, gets forward well, put a few decent crosses in and had a wonderful bending run to bypass their defence. Decent performance in my view. Nice to see his long throw being used at least once. It’s a bugbear of mine that we often get turned over when we win a throw. It’s often lost or thrown towards our own defence even in an attacking area
Thomas 6
He is a big clogger in the old fashioned mould. Wasn’t too bad and held his line reasonably well. Needs to close down a bit better around the D.
Lati 5
Loses a mark for getting done in the Grant goal build up. He’s a DM playing CD atm and I can help but think that Frank will move him to a more natural position next games.
Bidwell 6
Solid enough in defence and it was good to see him shout “move” at Sheaf when he was trying to find someone to throw to. One or two decent crosses and generally ok.
Eccles 5.5
I suppose unlucky for the “own goal” so I’ve knocked him half a mark. Like Sheaf he’s far too keen to take the easy ball, which is often backwards. I’ve got a tin foil hat reason why our players do this which I’ll thread about in a bit. A few decent passes but can’t seem to break up play in midfield. I predict Lati will be BWM next outing and Eccles benched.
Sheaf 5
Missed a sitter, lost a few balls, tackled and Dispossessed easily, few misplaced passes, few tackles won, mainly passed backwards. He rarely has a crack when around the D. Have in mind where the WBA goals came from.
Rudoni 5
A few poor corners, a couple of decent ones, a few poor crosses, a few decent ones, couldn’t get passed his marker often. We are playing 3 “passy” type midfielders. We need a ball winner and a runner in the mix.
EMC 5
Need to learn the offside rule or play a little deeper and run in. Overplays things too often.
Bassette 6
Full of enthusiasm and guile and draws two markers to him, which should open things up for his teammates. Didn’t get the rub of the green tonight. That said, he’d be a terror along side a big front man.
Tats 7
Looked on it and was unlucky not to score from a header. Links so well with MVE that often we don’t notice that that is where so much of our better play derives, on the right with those two moving and rotating the opponent defence.
Subs
Torp 6
Unlucky with the header, had a couple of cracks on the edge of the box. I’d rather see a midfield of him, Lati and BTA. Would be surprised to see that.
BTA 6
Not much.
Sims 6
Same
