Rockford's Love Child
Member
- Joined
- 15 Mar 2010
- Messages
- 13,913
- Player
- Jason Koumas / John Morrissey
- Manager
- John King
Another deserved victory for Rovers from a losing position.
I thought we actually played pretty well in the first half and the scoreline reflected the quality of the strikers on the pitch. We got our tactics spot on and pressed Swindon when they tried to play out from the back, and the visitors were all at sea defensively in the first twenty minutes. However, we were not clinical enough around the eighteen yard box, whereas Swindon had one breakaway which resulted in a brilliant finish from Kemp, who was by far their best player. Having scored the goal Swindon sat deep, which meant the one attribute Saunders has - pace - was negated and he offered nothing else in all honesty. We huffed and puffed for the remainder of the half, and Swindon continued to look threatening on the counter attack.
I thought we started the second half sluggishly. However, once we found our rhythm we dominated, and Adkins made a good tactical switch by taking off the ineffective Saunders, replacing him with Hawkes and moving Apter centrally. Our equaliser resulted from shocking Swindon defending, a feature of the afternoon, and from that point onwards I felt confident we would win the game.
I disagree with Boz about Walker and Morris, who I thought were excellent throughout, with both full backs also having very good games.
I thought we actually played pretty well in the first half and the scoreline reflected the quality of the strikers on the pitch. We got our tactics spot on and pressed Swindon when they tried to play out from the back, and the visitors were all at sea defensively in the first twenty minutes. However, we were not clinical enough around the eighteen yard box, whereas Swindon had one breakaway which resulted in a brilliant finish from Kemp, who was by far their best player. Having scored the goal Swindon sat deep, which meant the one attribute Saunders has - pace - was negated and he offered nothing else in all honesty. We huffed and puffed for the remainder of the half, and Swindon continued to look threatening on the counter attack.
I thought we started the second half sluggishly. However, once we found our rhythm we dominated, and Adkins made a good tactical switch by taking off the ineffective Saunders, replacing him with Hawkes and moving Apter centrally. Our equaliser resulted from shocking Swindon defending, a feature of the afternoon, and from that point onwards I felt confident we would win the game.
I disagree with Boz about Walker and Morris, who I thought were excellent throughout, with both full backs also having very good games.