spur
Isthmian South
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Post by spur on Sept 9, 2023 16:53:54 GMT
How did we lose this one? That's not a rhetorical question, because I'll suggest some answers, but half an hour in we were in full control and waiting for the first goal in what would surely be a routine victory. Invicta hit the bar from distance soon afterwards, but Archie then conjured a cross which had the visitors scrambling the ball clear, and Gondoh tracked across the box and fired in a shot which their keeper did well to save.
And yet we went in at the break 2-0 behind. The first goal followed hesitation between Murtagh and Salmon, allowing one of their attackers to whip the ball away from them and send a low drive past Nathan Harvey. For the second an Invicta forward was sharper than our defence in reaching a cross to the near post.
We needed a prompt response but didn't get one. Our chief problem seems to be that however much possession we have - and we continued to have most of it - we have difficulty in creating genuine chances. Add to that an occasional frailty at the back (Invicta put the game out of reach with a clinical breakaway goal) and you have the recipe for more results like this.
How, desperate encouragement aside, Tommy Wood was made man of the match is unfathomable. He's full of running, but he struggled again. I'd have chosen Gondoh, who gave the left side of their defence a torrid time as we struggled to get back into the game, and a mention for Kalvin on the other wing, who scored our consolation with a solo effort, but the fact is that we create little and are shot-shy when t ocasioal
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