Fully in agreement with the points that SuperBri and Madness make.
Fair play to Blackpool; they were better organised than us, the goalie made some terrific saves and the No. 17 was a right handful all night, while he was on the field. People around me were blaming Dan Burn for their second goal - me I thought the No. 17 did brilliantly to set it up.
For us our defence was woeful and not just for the goals - definite finger pointing at Bodurov and Zverotic for those. We lacked any composure when under threat and our headed clearances never seemed to go to a Fulham player. The main problem however was that we lacked shape and the pairing of Hugo and Dembele just didnât work. Dembele never got into the game and Hugo seemed determined to be anywhere but in the box; meaning that he got in the way of any build up.
Yet we should have won this game. That we didnât I put down to Kit not having a Plan B. As many others have said it was crying out for Matt Smithâs height and strength in their box. Also what was the point of keeping Zverotic on and why not replace him with Roberts? Not that Pat did anything when he did come on - in fact none of the youngsters last night led you to believe that they are physically ready for this League. Which begs another question of Kit - is he blinkered about the capability of the U18s?
Having got that lot off my chest, although not a great game technically, it was full of thrills, spills, goals & cock-ups. And much more entertaining than most matches weâve had to suffer in the last 18 months.
