Match Day Thread Oxford United v Sunderland - Tuesday 29th October - KO 19:45

His attitude most definitely is, Altidore tried but was crap.

 

I think we look poor at the back and in defensive midfield specifically. Up front, it is night and day and we look dangerous and fluid. At the back, we look like we could concede at any moment.

Pretty much the polar opposite of what I expected from PP to be fair.

 

Penalty shoot out

 

The Grigg miss put us behind on 4-2 mate point of no return.

 

Playing against another team from our league. I was at Wycombe when they did it as well. Why are Oxford so chuffed to beat someone lower than them in their own divison?

 

Eh? They've won the bloody thing before!

 

I don't think we'll ever see McLaughlin save a penalty. He is Pantilimon. Burge is Mannone.

 

give him time only been in the job a minute.

 

Team full of little fatties. They all eat well that's for sure.

 

Drew tonight marra, lost on pens

 

God I feel low about the club at the minute

Can’t think of any shred of positivity. Think that shoot out was worse than getting beat in normal time.

when will our descent end?

 

Bring back Paolo

 

No sh!t .

We still lost though didnt we ffs.

 

We need a bit of luck and a decent ref., plus shooting practice.

 

We need Paulo to come back and ban Tomato sauce from the canteen again

 

Another Will Grigg misfire, our attack is ****ing shiiiite

 

Surely giving Benji a run in the side couldnt be any worse. He gets what he wants. We see somebody putting some effort in and hopefully a few goals as well. If Benji is sh*te we get rid of.

 

I've watched the u23s a fair few times this season and Benji will put himself about and make a nuisance of himself with pace but he isn't a natural finisher like Maja was. Worth a shot but we should expect too much from him.

 

Penalties aside not really sure what to make of that performance.
We are better organised we press the ball a lot better and actually control the game for long spells
but we are really lacking quality, pace and cutting edge up front. Tempo is much better but just seems very predictable still
Think PP will have learned a lot again and I think you will see us tighten up at the back over the next few games
But he has a job on his hands up front. Where we get the creativity and cutting edge from with these players I don't know

 

One of my major worries is fitness, they don't look fit at all (mind in fairness we did finish the stronger). I agree though, we've got quite a one paced squad, and the talented players that we do have aren't exactly shining. I always think if you're going to win promotion you'll need to be stringing runs of about 8 wins in a row together, currently we don't look capable. Equally I think most promoted sides will have two or three players in the team of the season, I don't think we could make a case for any of ours even being in the discussion at this stage. A lot of improvement is needed, but I'm a lot more confident with Parkinson than I was with Ross, at least we're making chances now