Just realised no match thread! Lovely 2nd half performance & nice to see Fammy back & looking sharp. Between him and an in-form Weimann, we should carry a lot of goal-threat. Defending was a bit dodgy 1st half - the kinds of mistakes we make too often & on another day would cost us points. International break has possibly come at a bad time, but nice to head into it on the back of a win rather than stew over a loss for a couple of weeks. We've some very testing fixtures coming up which should give us an indication of whether we can mount a surprise playoff challenge or whether this was just a bit of a purple patch. Also, have to say that a lot of the Blackburn fans on a forum of theirs are right up their own arses! One minute they're bigging it up after taking the lead against the run of play, the next they're crying about being s**t because they can't even compete with 'bloody Bristol City'! One fan of theirs reckons he'did be happy with them finishing 10th, but I don't think I could name 14 teams they deserve to finish above - I think he still thinks they belong in the Premiership.
Great result. Poor defending for their goal but Maenpaa made a very good save later so perhaps it’s fair. 11 shots on target to their 2 according to the BBC. Well done to LJ and the lads.
Thought we did really well to turn it around in the second half , Sterling performance , however we made far too many silly mistakes in the first half, a better team would have gone into the break a couple up. We must cut out the mistakes. Love Marlon to bits , but first half his passing was awful , to his credit he stuck at it and was better second half and as ever his workrate throughout was first class. Nice to see Fam back and scoring after barely being on the pitch for 5 minutes. Don’t understand the love in with the new keeper, too early to give a proper judgement but he doesn’t fill me with confidence so far I have to say. I couldn’t see what happened for their goal , and appreciate the man on the near post , think it was hunt , should have cut it out but was still poor keeping , there was also the incident where he dwelled on the ball and his attempted clearance was blocked, luckily it went out harmlessly for a goal kick . There was also an incident in the second half where he missed it twice , thankfully we managed to clear it off the line. The most worrying thing for me though is for a big guy he should come and collect far more high balls and he doesn’t seem to command his area , these for me are the areas he needs to excel in to keep his place once FF is fit.
Some strange goalkeeping antics this weekend. Perhaps they are demanding more attention in these hyped up times.
For Blackburns goal the keeper was being held and impeded by their player Armstrong so he couldn't get to the ball.
Football is all about opinions, I don’t rate him at the moment , I couldn’t see the goal , but accept if you did and he was being held then not his fault, the one in the second half was definitely his fault , where we cleared it off the line , as was the first half incident , where he dwelt on it and was closed down , they could have resulted in goals and an altogether different result , he has to cut out those errors or over time we will drop unnecessary points.
Yep sat by the goal in the South Stand, the ref was even watching the bloke pulling him around before the corner was taken.
If it was before the corner taken then I imagine that’s why it’s not given as the ball not in play , the ref was shocking throughout mind, I think he practically tackled Marlon at one point. Also played a one two with a Blackburn player on another occasion.
Yeah decent performance that, weird how I've gone from really worried to quite optimistic in just over a week. Everyone was pretty solid today except for Matty Taylor, definite 3/10 from him not enough imo
