With Muric out of the side, Davis (with an assist from Greaves’ lack of awareness) and Morsy taking on the stupidity duties with Taylor just about getting away with one. Three points will be hard to come by this season and we can’t afford to throw those away. Hugely disappointing.
Such a shame, 2 idiotic pens to give away, costing us 2 pts. But we are competing with a threadbare squad now. Overall, not a pretty performance but we deserved a hard fought draw. I will watch 1st half tmrw.
It shows how we're progressing when it seems a bit disappointing to come away with only one point from that performance.
Decent 2-2 draw away from home against a side unbeaten in several games. Two silly fouls in the box by Morsy and Davis has cost us the win, but could’ve been worse. I think Kieran’s got his new formation. Three at the back with wing backs gives us much better defensive solidity. O’Shea, Woolfenden, and Greaves defended really well and Walton was solid again. Johnson had a great game down the right. Fulham couldn’t crack us without those two penalties. Attacking wise, we looked threatening. Broadhead was a buzz of activity and created our best chances. Szmodics took his goal well. Delap didn’t get much service, but did well to win and score the penalty. A point gained when teams around us lost. Encouraging signs we’ve figured out a way to put one-sided defeats behind us. Hopefully we can bring in a few players this month, as we really need a bit more reliable quality to come on and keep us in games. A back-up striker has to be a priority.
Decent point - lateness of the equaliser only thing that is annoying. 3 CB is looking the way forward for us. Think Morsy is struggling a bit - he’ll definitely get the fa cup game off but I wonder if Phillips & Cajuste might be a better cm partnership. Only other question is why did it take so long for Broadhead to get a start? Looks totally comfortable at this level
Morsy has struggled a bit lately, but I think it’s more to do with fatigue than ability. I’d rest the entire starting eleven for the cup game - they need a break. I’m not sure Phillips or Taylor are quite the answer yet. Wouldn’t trust either to see out a 90-minute Premier League match. But Morsy giving away that penalty was just sheer stupidity. What was he thinking? The guy was moving away from goal and he just swipes his back leg needlessly. Davis gets a bit more leeway, as he was clearly knackered towards the end of the match, but it was still another stupid penalty to give away and cost us two points. Feels weird to come from that moaning about just a point, but felt like we had three points comfortably on the board. We can’t make stupid errors like that at this level and expect to win games. On the bright side, seven points from four/five games. Definitely a step in the right direction.
Wolves have a tricky period of games, oh, and we have Man City and L'pool after BHA! At least we have a decent break now to rest, recover, lick our wounds and hopefully sign some much needed reenforcements. Odd thing to say, but the in the period I watched, Fulham showed no sign of fluent attacking play or a way thru our resilient defense. So we gift them a point, ah well tis the season of goodwill!
I thought similar performance to Chelsea in that we were willing to sit back, concede possession but still be brave when we got the ball back. Fulham clearly had the majority of play and territory but we denied them many clear cut chances, looked relatively comfortable defensively and attacked well when we could. I thought our overall attacking play was better than against Chelsea and got men forwards really well. Walton for me did nothing wrong, his decision making is currently far superior to Muric, knows when to come for the ball and his distribution is no Hladky but it's not bad and he know when to hold onto it and when to release. I thought the backline was generally superb. If I'm being highly critical I thought Greaves looked a little cumbersome on the ball and got caught out positionally again for the situation where Davis got carded. If we play with 3 CBs I do think if we want to improve we need O'Shea and Greaves to offer more on the ball. I'm assuming that is part of the reason we have brought Godfrey in. I thought Morsy and Cajuste were good but this formation probably isn't the easiest for them and Morsy doesn't seem to be able to dominate the way he was in certain games earlier on in the season. Szmodics work rate and movement for me are very good but needs to improve on the ball or we need to use him differently. He's also missed a few chances not making connection with the ball recently and oddly for a very right footed player for a lot of these chances he's swung with his left leg which seems to to me. Broadhead was my MoM, everything he did was classy today. I can't believe how good he's been on the ball the past couple of games, he just looks at home in the PL. And for me has performed better than any other player in that positions so far this season. Overall a very decent result and performance, just a shame that the win was undone by 2 stupid and unnecessary tackles for the penalties
Gaffer's take having watched most of the replay. I'm not too downhearted. On the contrary, I saw much to be happy about. Of course it could have been another away win. Like others I glanced at the live table and saw we were 16th in the table until those last crazy 5 minutes. KM needs to drum home the art of Game management, we have lost too many pts in last 5 mins. No crazy forays forwards leaving us exposed. No lazy legs gifting soft pens. We dont look like a side that is doomed to relegation. We are not getting whacked every week like some. Everyone played well, and from the well organised low block, we put together some fine passages of play, with a final touch of a foot scoring 2-3 more goals on another day. Jack Clarke was a whisker away from his 1st goal. How good would that be. Our defense is much more resilient. Walton had another good game and fills his defenders with confidence. Time again waves of Fulham attacks were repulsed. KM knows his best formation. It will be interesting to see who he plays once Tuanzebe is back, assuming he now has a dishwasher at home. Broadhead is back. What a player he is and must start every game. Most players are clearly tired after a relentless 5 months in the demanding Prem.Hopefully they will be rested next 10 days and in the FA Cup. Still cant get my head round that we are now playing the likes of Man City, L'pool, Spurs, Chelsea week in week out, and only looked overwhelmed by Newcastle. We have been very competitive in most games and I am hopeful that with a few fresh signings, and more Prem experienced subs, we will see games out better and imo, we will stay up come the Spring and fine warm Suffolk days. .
