portugull wrote: 06 Feb 2025, 22:43
Dilmond you say "Playing the bottom teams it's almost a guaranteed loss"
Where is your evidence? We have only lost 5 games out of 29! Come on!!
I think someone mentioned that we had lost eight points against the bottom teams, and whilst at the time it may not seem a great deal it certainly hits hard when you're on a losing streak like we are now.
Injuries now kicking in, so a good excuse for the loss at the post match interview.
I wouldn’t say losing two in a roll is a losing streak, maybe when you get to 4 or 5 it is. You can certainly say however we haven’t picked up many points the last few matches, yet its only in the last game that we have been poor.
We have our two most reliable first team defenders out injured, so of course we’re not going to be as defensively sound. People seem to continually forget the squad has only been together for this season, it will take time to get a squad of players who can all come in and do a job if needed. I would take a scrappy win or draw today to be honest, yes it’ll keep us adrift, but every team around us is going to have a patch of games where they don’t pick up points and if we are back firing we can catch up to them again.
Can’t fault the endeavour, but hoof ball was back with a vengeance for us today, only Eastbourne visibly tiring in the last 20 minutes made us look a threat late on.
Not exactly a cobbled together side but certainly not the first eleven this afternoon and first half showed that, You can see why eastbourne have been on such a good run and do not concede many goals, I thought their back four were very good and their passing was crisp and found their own players whereas ours mainly didnt. We regressed back to the sideways backwards game possibly becuase no one was making any runs up front. I thought with the exception of dreyer and Palmer no one did well first half.
I would imagine wotton had much to say half time becuase we seemed to be a lot brighter in the second, not sure how dreyer scored that goal but I will take it and mussa never panics when he is in on goal and so it proved. A hard won three points , I hope we have something left in the tank for tuesday.
culmstockgull wrote: Yesterday, 19:32
Not exactly a cobbled together side but certainly not the first eleven this afternoon and first half showed that, You can see why eastbourne have been on such a good run and do not concede many goals, I thought their back four were very good and their passing was crisp and found their own players whereas ours mainly didnt. We regressed back to the sideways backwards game possibly becuase no one was making any runs up front. I thought with the exception of dreyer and Palmer no one did well first half.
I would imagine wotton had much to say half time becuase we seemed to be a lot brighter in the second, not sure how dreyer scored that goal but I will take it and mussa never panics when he is in on goal and so it proved. A hard won three points , I hope we have something left in the tank for tuesday.
But, we still won.....
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Until the last 20 minutes it didn't look as if we'd score and Eastbourne seemed to be the most likely winners but we gradually improved, scored a goal that looked a bit fortunate and another as they were pushing forward right at the end - but that's the way champions win matches some time.
Not sure we'll get away with it at Worthing who at the moment look like favourites to win the league - but a couple of weeks ago Borehamwood seemed to be the ones we'd need to catch.
