Well we have done it again! Twice this game was won and twice awful defending gave it away. Adryan came back in for Morison and Byram for Beradi and, as expected Cooper replace the suspended Pearce Like so many of our game this season this was another 'game of two halves' this time though it was the game itself rather than our performance that changed. The first half is totally forgettable, we had a few nice little triangles and Adyran showed a lovely piece of skill to let the impressive Warnock fire in a great cross. Warnock then did well at the other end clearing one off the line when Silvestri missed a cross. I said a few weeks ago that Silvestri looks great but we need to see how he reacts to a big mistake -well now we know (after Cardiff) he makes more mistakes ! Second half was a totally different beast as we went forward with purpose and did tear some holes in their defence. The 2 goals were absolute beauties. The first Adryan again impressed linking up down the flank with Warnock and the ball fell to Mowatt "F-ing hit it" yelled the bloke next to me but Mowatt decided that blasting high and wide was not for him, instead he took it under control put it on his left foot and from the edge of the box put an unstoppable shot into the top corner. That should have been that. We were all over them at this stage and I fancied us to win 2 or even 3 nil. Antenucci, Mowatt and Doukara (a poor night from him) all had shots and half chances. Then as so often before defence frailities brought us down. This time an awful clearance from, the otherwise solid Cooper, hit the attacker and somehow he squeezed it past the keeper into the net. SIlvestri should not have been beaten like that at his near post. Poor all round. This rocked us a bit but we re-grouped and another decent move ended with the ball coming back out to Warnock who elected not to shoot but shovelled it on to Mowatt, who 22yards out this time, hit another lovely curling shot into the top corner - great goal. Game over ? Not for us. A corner to them and the ref points to the spot, a penalty and the equaliser. No idea what the pen was for. According to people on the bus the ref had warned us about pulling in the box, we (Bellusci ?) pulled someone so a penalty. One of those hot topics at the moment but how often do such things go unpunished? The crowd bayed for the refs blood but the players did not complain. We still had time to win it, 10 mins plus 5 injury time, especially as they went down to 10 when one went off injured and all subs had been used. We huffed and puffed a bit but in the end we blew it 2 points needlessly thrown away. Quite a lot of good things, Warnock my MOM, Mowatt good throughout and 2 lovely goals, Adryan has some nice touches. We have promise in this team and if, and it is a big IF, we can cut out the defensive errors, then we can go places over the next few years. We really need to win on Saturday v Blackpool - we probably will since I am missing the game for another f=ing family wedding !!!! Dave _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org
John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
