Interesting highlights.
After Sylla scored I was waiting for the whistle assuming Sylla had fouled their keeper - hard to tell from PU. Comedy of errors from their point of view.
Half the Blades look like rugby players!
Connor should have squared it and Mackie might have done a little better.
I think the highlights slightly flatter us, but only slightly.
From where we were sitting (the other end of the ground, admittedly)...Sylla looked to be nowhere near the action, and I was completely dumbfounded as to what had happened.
To be fair United made absolutely no attempt to blame Sylla...It was very clear he was not involved.
He just did the sensible thing, when no-one really knows what was happening ...he put the ball in the net.
It was a funny game. We really did not let them settle into their game...The press was amazing.
Interestingly...they came out in the second half, with increased vigour, and began to get a grip on the game.....and I could not see how we would hang on for 45 minutes.
We started calling for subsitutions (Wzoleck for Cousins, Smith for Sylla (the ball was mainly in the air....and our midfielders were losing out to their giants).
Ollie did make changes for those players...but bought Furlong on for Cousins, Mackie on for Sylla. (Manning for Wheeler was much later)...and to be really honest, it did settle the boat. By 75 minutes I was beginning to get confident we would see it out.
We had more and better chances than they did, even though they were obviously more desperate than ewe were.
Got to say Baptiste, Robinson and Bidwell are playing as an amazing unit....long may it go on.
The addition of Lynch back on Saturday...can only be a plus.
As said in another thread...at this moment to my mind, Ollie has a decision only to make on one position (Cousins, Wheeler, Furlong, Manning???...with Cousins the man in position). I hope no-one picked up a knock last night
Smithies
XXXX Baptiste, Lynch, Robinson, Bidwell
Freeman, Scowen Luongo
Conor, Sylla
Happy times in the QPRBeth household