Hard fought draw away from home certainly showed a much higher competitiveness and battling spirit. Makama's second goal in his first start was part of that. Mattsson's ball through to Stacey, who crossed perfectly for Jovon to finish. Their goal off a rebound as the first shot was blocked was well taken and a draw was a fair result.
Another point gained, not a great half but the boys put in a shift. We seemed to try to overload the left hand side, with Gibbs in the 10 definitely being more left side focus. Passing still needs to be sorted out, several times we seemed like we could start an attack similar to the one we scored from, but the second pass kept being misplaced or sloppy or aimless. We seemed to set up in a mid block but the distance between the front 4 and the midfield 2 seemed too big and it leaves a lot of space and a lot of running for the 2 in there. Several times there seemed to be too much space between those 2 and Stoke were able to play a single straight ball through the middle to an unmarked attacker
I thought it looked like Darling was dragged to the floor in the build up to the goal which left him out of position and Medic being drawn to the left, it put the whole defence out of shape
So we've played the top 3 teams. 2 score draws away from home and a narrow 2 - 1 loss at home to the league leaders.
