Rockford's Love Child
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A very disappointing end to a tight contest. Given our second half performance I think we should really have sewn up the game, but Brentford will argue they deserved the point for their showing in the first 45.
Not for the first time this season our first half performance was poor. Brentford played five in the middle and battled hard, frustrating us and forcing us into errors. I thought we didn't help ourselves with our insistence on playing the ball out from the back on every occasion; this led to us giving the ball way in bad areas on a number of occasions, when really we wanted to play a ball behind their centre backs and get the whole team moving up the pitch twenty yards.
Despite our generally poor play, defensively we were solid once again and Brentford's only genuine oppourtunity was brilliantly saved by Fon Williams.
In the second half we were greatly improved, more composed on the ball and Zoum, Akpro and Robinson began to cause real problems down the left hand side. Akpro's goal was a great piece of individual play, but I thought Zoum was our man of the match, another fantastic performance from him at both ends of the pitch.
I don't think they troubled us defensively at all in the second half, which made the equaliser all the more galling; just a long throw lumped into the box which Gibson, for once, seemed to misjudge.
The real concern has to be Wallace's injury, which hopefully will not be serious.
The moral of today's game is probably that we can't keep giving teams a 45 minute start and expect to score two or three in the second half. It will be interesting to see how we respond to our first real down of the season in the two tough away games ahead.
On the positive side, we are still top and remain unbeaten.
Not for the first time this season our first half performance was poor. Brentford played five in the middle and battled hard, frustrating us and forcing us into errors. I thought we didn't help ourselves with our insistence on playing the ball out from the back on every occasion; this led to us giving the ball way in bad areas on a number of occasions, when really we wanted to play a ball behind their centre backs and get the whole team moving up the pitch twenty yards.
Despite our generally poor play, defensively we were solid once again and Brentford's only genuine oppourtunity was brilliantly saved by Fon Williams.
In the second half we were greatly improved, more composed on the ball and Zoum, Akpro and Robinson began to cause real problems down the left hand side. Akpro's goal was a great piece of individual play, but I thought Zoum was our man of the match, another fantastic performance from him at both ends of the pitch.
I don't think they troubled us defensively at all in the second half, which made the equaliser all the more galling; just a long throw lumped into the box which Gibson, for once, seemed to misjudge.
The real concern has to be Wallace's injury, which hopefully will not be serious.
The moral of today's game is probably that we can't keep giving teams a 45 minute start and expect to score two or three in the second half. It will be interesting to see how we respond to our first real down of the season in the two tough away games ahead.
On the positive side, we are still top and remain unbeaten.