Came in. Mme says they are winning 2-1. Sunderland equalize. Should have stayed out for a couple more minutes.
Another lead lost - story of the season . Another old boy scoring too. Must have worked on our corners this week .
They were fragile. There for the taking. No mistake, for all the Sunderland pressure and huff and puff, this was two points dropped. Irritating.
Only saw from our first goal on, but agree. Our own fault really - for the last 20 minutes or so we seemed to pull everyone back in defence and were guilty of wild clearances upfield to no-one - basically inviting Sunderland to keep attacking. I'm sure if we had a striker with any pace, he would have unlocked their defence for more goals - and would have stopped them from attacking as much as they did. After all the talk about about giving youth their chance - in particular Blake - Wilding never even put them on the bench. Disappointing...
They don’t seem very impressed with our tactics. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/time-wasting-teams.1605809/page-2#post-38217912 https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/watford-team.1605810/#post-38217944 Mind you they let us score from 2 corners somehow !
Derek Payne was saying on the commentary that Watford once again ran out of steam in the last 20 minutes, we are not fit enough for 90 plus minutes but we did play more as a team without Pedro and his man of the match was Asprilla I am waiting for a pundit to ask Wilder if Pedro will be given the chance to say goodbye to the Watford fans and the answer is He did that when he run straight off the pitch as Captain half without applauding the travelling fans at Hull Fitting epitaph for his second half of the season
Wilder also questioned the fitness of the team . https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sport/23490595.watford-boss-praises-equaliser-queries-time-added/ Its been a problem since the Pozzos came really in terms of injuries. Asprilla went off for Bacuna - seems to have been a negative move tbh . Maybe that is the sort of trying to see out the game tactic the Sunderland fans mean - coupled with our lack of fitness at the end of games.
Mind you they were screaming for everything! Really was desperate at times. Oddly in the pub before the game the general consensus was that we would win. The average Sunderland fan's glass is less than half empty.
Mainly they seemed to think we were much better than our form suggested and their home form was patchy so we had a chance . We probably proved them right to an extent really although not very favourably according to the same fans!
In our first season in the Premier League under Gino, we - with Leicester - had the shortest list of injuries. It was put down to that cryogenics thing in the car park. It was still there last time I was at the training ground, but that was three years ago now.
Wilder commented on the WFC website that the team ran out of steam. Something wrong with our fitness training then, at the end of the season you would think the players had the legs to keep going for 90 minutes.
They're all too pampered these days. Ken Furphy would have sorted them out in one pre-season, as would GT have probably.
They haven't put the mileage in all season. That catches up with you as the muscle memory isn't there when you need it.
It is a fine balance during the season The Italian Godfather who was in charge during our second was accused of over training the players and they had nothing left in the tank for match days which really showed up on the last half of the season
Not as irritating as a team wasting time all game, kicking the ball away, and players feigning injury, as an example the tosser who pretended he was injured and tried to role back onto the pitch, disgusting, however, its good to see you have a manager who wants to embrace your "style" of football
We're not exactly enamoured with it ourselves - it has been that way for the last two seasons. But whilst it's bad here at the moment, don't lay the blame for it at our door - EPL teams have been guilty of it for years, and plenty of EFL teams copy it. It's the crap managers our owners insist on hiring who either insist on it as 'game management' or are simply too weak to stop the players from doing it.
