Yellow card:
Witton’s Tom Hoyle on 67 minutes.
Witton Substitution:
Damola Sotona replaced by Ben Lowe on 73 minutes.
Latest Score from The U Lock It Stadium:
Witton Albion 1 Stafford Rangers 3.
85 minutes played.
Yellow card:
Witton’s Aaron Fleming on 85 minutes.
Yellow card:
Stafford Rangers Ben O’Hanlon on 88 minutes.
Yellow card:
Witton’s Deji Sotona on 90+4 minutes.
Full Time Score from The U Lock It Stadium:
Witton Albion 1 Stafford Rangers 3.
Albion’s third defeat in four games.
We return to the U Lock It Stadium on Tuesday night when we welcome league leaders Lower Breck in a Northern Premier League West Division fixture with a 7.45pm kick off.
Not a great watch again sadly, cannot take chances, lightweight in one to one battles and mistakes galore.
The only good things were Deji Sotona looks a threat, if only we could try to get on the end of crosses and Hamman did ok on his return but strikers were poor again!
Well beaten well by a poor side, seems to be our gift to football just now, the players and mgt need to have a look at themselves and they have to turn this around or the team will get dragged into the mire again.
Listening to Ben’s post-match interview with Karl he seemed really lost and couldn’t explain it.
Those three matches we won on the bounce, seem a long time ago now.
It’s getting really worrying now and we need something but the question is What!
To be fair to Ben, the mgt tried to change things going 4 4 2 bringing in Dufton-Kelly, Deji Sotona and Jacob Hamman and first half to a degree it worked we had 70% of the play in their third of the pitch but fell down because the strikers won nothing in the box, despite numerous balls in and the defence had a bad day with poor marking for the first goal an own goal and a soft penalty given away!
It’s hard to recover from that. The only problem apart from the strikers was that the full backs play as wingbacks leaving us exposed in a 4 4 2 they both can’t go attacking at the same time!
No time to get it right for Tuesday on the training pitch but hard words need to be said.
Not really sure you can lay all of the blame on the strikers! 3 goals at the other end didn’t come from them… an own goal (easily done) and a stupid tackle for a penalty.
But the fact that the team keeps getting changed and players who haven’t played for weeks are playing, who are not fit enough - maybe due to injuries within current squad.
Every sub is like for like! Getting beat 3-0 so take a striker off for another (who in fairness scored but more luck than a good goal). No changes to format or anything. Every sub was for a player in exactly the same position. No plan B whatsoever.
We go to booting a ball up constantly hoping that Freddy will get on the end of it… he won 2 headers yesterday!
Not his fault but someone (management) should be changing the way we play when games are like that.
Although we didn’t play well, we did have enough chances to have at least got a draw.
It was disapointing that two of the goals came from breakaways after our attacks had broken down. Maybe need a more defensive midfielder in the mix.
Think the change at centre back was because of injury to one of the regular two. Not sure why Lawrie wasn’t in the squad .
I agree that we play to many long balls hoping that Freddy can win them.
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I’m definitely not blaming the strikers alone, the defence was also culpable but in the first half alone Sotona put 4 crosses across the goal beating the keeper and defence and it’s a striker’s job to get on the end of them and put them in the net!
But I do agree we go long ball far too often and in the air and it’s clearly not Freddy’s game, we are a better team on the floor for sure.
Yes completely agree.. but also think that some of that’s down to them not playing together…no excuse as they should be pre-empting it.
I just can’t understand the change in formation all of the time, and again like for like with subs. Poor Freddy cannot & will not win every ball yet they continue to do it xx we are or were too slow at the back yesterday and no one seemed to be able to work out what would work.
Some players don’t pass quick enough and it ends up back where it started and by that time the opposition are ready for us.
Don’t really understand the management decision making …