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More interested than usual in this game, considering we actually have a squad full of players for a change to see. It's not a high bar though.

Something like:


              Barden
      Hart Minturn Freckleton
Cox                              McGregor
      Ofoborh Cain Mitchell
          Tshimanga Drinan


Perhaps? That would still leave Brown, Uwakwe (he's still here right?), Kirkman and Redman Evans of the non-regulars. Maybe Butterworth starts, not sure.

Seems very unlikely to be a Reading style U18 team, maybe Botan Ameen makes the bench.

I was told by someone that Cox is injured and won’t be fit for several week so think Kirkman might play in his place, but that lineup would make a lot of sense

Tempted to go to this even though I don't like the format of the tournament but its only 25 miles from me and its cheap, so weather dependant I may well go.

Would be nice to see the new lads get game time.

Fully expect a very changed side like maybe.

              Barden
      Hart Minturn Freckleton(Sobowale)
McGregor                         Cox(if fit or Kirkman)
      Ofoborh Cain Mitchell
          Butterworth Drinan


https://www.exetercityfc.co.uk/news/match-preview-swindon-town-h

Cox is at least a month away from being fit, not sure that its injury but more lack of training/preseason.

It wouold be unlike us to get someone in who is injured or unfit.

Delaney and McGurk fit

Longelo seeing a specialist

Cox awaiting international clearance

Would be good for Delaney and McGurk to get at least some game time under their belts in a nothing game.

As always, the only thing I care about it none of the first teamers getting injured.

So if the likes of Minturn, Mitchell, Kirkman, McGregor can start I'd be very happy.

My stab at a probable STFC XI for tonight below... if Delaney/McGurk are in fact ready to come back, that would handy.

GK - Barden

RCB - Minturn
CB - Hart
LCB - Delaney? / Freckleton

LWB - Kirkman
RWB - McGregor

CM - Ofoborh
CM - Cain
AM - Butterworth

FOR - Drinan
FOR - Tshimanga

Off the bench - Mitchell, Jaxon Brown, McGurk?


It's actually a relatively strong top end of the pitch, be nice to see them staking claims to start at Barrow. Here's hoping! I'll be streaming the game, then podcasting with Rich P on LSPod afterwards.

A comp ruined...but we all know that...shame, i might of popped up tonight. As it is, i keep my pledge of not attending any of these games in person.

I hope nobody gets injured...

I hope some margin players get a run out..

I hope we can get a win...i think after Saturday everyone needs a lift, if a little small. Scrappy OGs will do....

Can you get these games on the box? (of any kind).

Sky+

Are you in Exeter then?  :hmmm:

I’d be tempted to put Ameen on the bench, to get him 15/20 mins of first team(ish) football.

As for Delaney & McGurk, I guess it depends how much time they want to give them, 30/45/60 mins.

So is saturdays game too

And the one after!

N Abbott

Devon in September, lovely.

Mainly here for the beer, but it's a first team fixture &  a chance to get that first win on the board & to whip the squad into shape in the BDSM Trophy or whatever it's called these days.

If Kennedy is true to his word then the selection should be a bit more thought out than just bunging the squad spare parts together with some youth & hoping for the best.

Hopefully McGregor & Minturn will get some time & maybe some youth from the bench. They will learn much more with some experience alongside rather than just being chucked in with other youngsters.

Increased squad depth might allow for a bolder selection than in previous years.

Reminder it's a 7pm KO tonight

Weighed it up and cant be bothered going tonight depsite being so close to me, just had a severe weather warning too so that sealed the deal.

Think you need to check that one.

Don't blame you tbh

He’s right, it’s on the sky sports app as showing on Sky Sports + (with a selection of other games)

I'm going tonight but will be in the exeter end with a few Exeter/Torquay supporting mates of mine, interested to what team we put out.

Not sure if our glorious leader will be here tonight.

If so, a willingness to seek & take on board advice on how a well run club can survive in L1 with relative ease is an entirely different matter.

As a general rule, all of the league cup and boycott trophy games are on sky sports+ along with all midweek games and weekend games during the international break.

I think that's correct.

Saturday is a free for all as it's an international weekend.... every EFL game is being shown...

Exeter apparently putting out a much stronger team than normal for this game as they don't have a game on Saturday due to the international break.

Be good to see some game time for a few of the new lads and kids though.

To my small footballing mind the only ones who should be guaranteed a night off are Hall & Smith.

Everyone else from Saturday is fair game for a min 45 - 60 mins tonight but yeah the onus should be on getting some minutes into the newbies in particular.

I'd probably add Clarke who doesn't seem to be the kind of guy to manage 90 at the moment, but yeah I'm expecting a fairly strong team. It helps that we have a lot more depth to the squad this year, even if the top line quality is... to be seen.

I was thinking Clarke as well but he's not really done enough to be deemed essential as of yet, but given that he's been subbed in recent games 15 or 20 minutes from the bench might be appropriate tonight.

We'll find out in about 10 mins when Obodo & Ameen are leading the attack.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GWkMmVwXEAMUKi1?format=jpg&name=medium)

Pretty strong team that.

McGurk?

Will be interesting to see if that’s 4-4-2 or which of the midfielders is playing Wing back

I like that. Few players there who need to impress

Cain as LWB would be my guess.

McGurk is a mystery!

Is he injured?

Has he pissed on someones chips?

Probably, he did appear to fill in there on Saturday at the end of the game

We have about 6 fucking fullbacks why is he playing there

Is Ofoborh on the naughty step?

Apparently, so.

Unless it's a back 4 with a narrow diamond midfield, kilkenny at the base and then Butterworth as a 10?

Exeter have made 7 changes, my mates still seem to think it's a decent side they have put out though.

A very common theme unfortunately. Sign players in a position then all of a sudden their face don't fit. For a club on a limited budget we don't half let players sit around and do fuck all alot

Ex Swindon stalwart Sweeney captains them!

This, Uwakwe, McGurk, Ofobroh, RHM, Khan etc etc. The list goes on and on.

What’s going on with Ofoborh then?

Must be a falling out or / and Kennedy is trying to make some kind of point - I.e play where I say or don’t play at all.

…and Longelo too?

Injured

He seeing a specialist this week according to Kennedy, as for Ofoborh, he kept quiet on that one.

Do we think maybe something happened on deadline day?

Again only a rumour but have heard he's struggling to train properly all of a sudden with fitness. Who knows

He came back looking less fit to my eyes (Offy that is). Not a big stretch.

I mean - changing a holding midfielder to a box to box I guess probably has some knock on effect fitness wise?

Maybe straw clutching

Just think he’s potentially the holding player we’ve lacked since Grant. He looked decent after ages out & now fit with a pre season he should be kicking on into an absolute destroyer in L2…but…lolz Swindon, no

With our wide open midfield i thought he would be the perfect type of player after seeing Kilkenny on saturday. Those 2 deep allows fullbacks to take more risks. Was suprised how may times we seen clarke out wide on saturday

Clarke was almost playing as a wide midfielder and trying to get in crosses, something that Sobowale should have been doing TBH.

Struggling to find this on my Spanish firestick

No commentary on iFollow yet, are the BBC bothering covering it today?

BBC supposed to be covering the game with Rob Hartley colour commentator.

They're surely obliged to?

Thats what iFollow suggested yes.

Still no commentary on iFollow, ah well it is what it is.

Very early but Cain is pushing very high on the left side

And giving the ball away twice.

Perhaps they'll turn up at 19:45 :)

Make that 3 times, hes not comfortable there at the moment.

That wouldnt surprise me!

Unsurprisingly a very pre season friendly feel about the empty stadium and first team players playing at a slow pace.

Now we dont even have crowd and pitch noise.

Barden not so eager to take a 1st time pass up field, so far he likes to take a touch before passing it. Which TBF I prefer a keeper doing as theres less liklihood of misskicking it.

Cotterill awful slip up right in front of our defence giving it away after Kilkenny did some good skills winning the ball.

Cain caught upfield gives the ball away and Exeter have a good chance but stray offside.

That 5 second spell a moment ago sums up the difference between Kilkenny and Cotterill in that area of the pitch.

Kilkenny loses the ball in the middle and Exeter try a shot from all of 50 yards which bothers the corner flag more than the goal.

Cotterill just doesnt look great in front of our defence, in the opponents half though he does some good things.

I can definately hear Hawes but he is turned up so low you cant make it out at all.

Oh we have Exeter commentary now, and I thought he was mixing all our player sup until I realise hes got a delay of about 6 or 7 seconds!

Great chance for Exeter, striker misses a sitter and then Sobowale puts in a last ditch tackle in the 6 yard box.

Was Minturn fouled then?
No idea how their striker missed that

Sobowale wins the ball on the wing and finds Cotterill and his cross is a good height cross but too deep and Drinan couldnt get near it TBH.

That was a terrible miss, total air shot, unmarked, 8 yards out with the keeper to beat.

Huge gap between Freckleton & Cain.
Exeter pinging it that way every time.

This isn't very good....

The quality of my steam is not good

We really are lucky with Hawes, the little we had of their guy was worse than the completely silent spell.

We are effectively playing 4-1-3-2 with Cain so far forward, maybe that was the plan.

Really poor foul by Wright there, so clumsy near the corner flag.

If it is the plan then its not very successful at either end of the pitch TBH.

Good point blank block by Barden.

Drinan is useless!!

Drinan with a great interception, makes a lovely run of 60 yards but he tries a shot and he really should have passed to Butterworth who was unmarked in the middle.

Square it man...

Such a waste from dry nun

Not loving the amount of space Doyle has on the penalty spot there.

Kilkenny with a very sloppy pass, they put the ball into our box and Sobowale nearly gives away a penlaty but the ball goes to the striker who misses another sitter from 8 yards, well wide.

Doyle has missed an absolute sitter

Blimey nobody there, think they will run out of pies? Swindon would!

Another poor miss by them from the edge of the box, we look sloppy at the back now.

I actually think the movement from Butterworth was a problem there, he neither held his run to have the defender leave him space behind him or made the move for the ball just goal side of the defender and ended up keeping the defender between him and Drinan.

Yes, but that's no bad thing

They only opened the single stand where the cameras are located in.

Decent corner by Cain but the defender heads it clear for another corner.

HT 0-0

Think this season we’re just seeing Drinan as what most of us rated him as last year, a capable back up League Two forward. If he’s starting every game or coming on when we need to chase a game then he’s probably not the right option but as a backup forward to see out games we’re winning/drawing and take load off of the main forwards for cup matches then he’s a decent option.

Thats not a disrespect to him either as he’ll chip in with a decent few goals over the course of a season and work hard, just not a starter.

All my opinion of course.

Meh. Was ok I suppose

Think it's been pretty even in general, should be 1-1.
Most of their chances have come down our left, Kilkenny looks a good signing. Butterworth has some good touches. Barden's looked solid.

We don't look particularly outclassed but it's very preseason pace. Sobowale did okay as well as the others mentioned.

We do not look like scoring!!

The midfield two for us do not look like they fancy tracking runners or getting back to help with any degree of urgency when in transition.  It's not terrible today, but it's still lacking something.

1,485 there tonight apparently! 97 from Town.

Kilkenny off for Clarke at HT - assume a pre-planned sub.

Clarke on for Kilkenny.

Would like to see MacGregor get some game time for Sobowale, I think Exeter look quite weak at left back but we seem to be playing it more down our left.

Nice bit of skill and control by Butterworth, brought down 30 yards out.

Tshimanga just wide from 18 yards, took a deflection for a corner.

Hell of a punt by Butterworth

Butterworth a foot wide from 25 yards a real belter of a shot.

Butterworth looking good this second half

For me he looks a much better player than Cotterill in the middle.

Tshimanga breaks and clean through and the keeper just gets his hand to it, good chance.

Well Butterworth can definitely hit a decent shot.

Agreed, just needs to learn when to lay it off and when to shoot

Cain may not be as good at LWB/LW than King but hes put much better corners in than any that King put in on Saturday.

Solid low save from a 20 yard shot on the angle, gathers up the slight rebound.

Sobowale a poor touch there but gets away with it.

Delaney amongst those on.

King on for Butterworth.
Delaney on for Freckleton.
Smith on for Tshimanga.

King LWB and Cain up into midfield

Has Delaney gone in at middle of the 3?

Delaney is certainly another big unit at the back.

Ar.

Bardens kicking under pressure is not too good so far.

and they score.

Poor defending, corner ball not cleared by Delaney and the keeper well beaten from 15 yards.

Oh

We've not got going at all since that triple change.

Drinan needless corner conceded - he's having a Casemiro

Glatzel coming on probably for Drinan.

I just dont see what he brings to the team, I am happy to be proved wrong though.

1-1

What a good hit! 1-1

Hopefully Glatzel has more determination to prove a point that Drinan - Ping by Cotterill

Good hit from coterill that!

Furious he's wasted that goal in this competition!

Don’t we celebrate scoring anymore?

That was another goal of the season contender.

A goal of stunning quality

They might all fit on the shortlist at this rate

Some fans dont

2 great saves by Barden, Delaney looks rusty as fuck.

True.

What a miss

Glatzel on for Drinan.

I’m talking about the players!!

Glad we got Delaney fit for this game as he looks very rusty, perfect game for him to get some fitness/sharpness

Its probably going to take him 4 or 5 appearances to get near match fit, understandably he is very rusty at the moment.

That was a nasty foul on Glatzel.

1-2 great finish by them

Would like to see the numbers on the ratio of goals we’ve conceded (and scored to be fair) from outside the box this season. Feels like quite a few, midfield issue?

Oh

Top corner from 25 yards after Minturn leaves him alone.

Why are conceding so many worldies? Is it because we stand off too much?

Great goal. Awful defending. So much space to attack.

Insane finish but really poor from Minturn

We are conceding on average 2 goals a game and creating absolutely fuck all. You aren’t going to win many games doing that.

He was taking a wander towards the corner flag and not chasing the man with the ball. Very very poor defending by him.

Another defeat incoming then. Sigh.

Since the triple change (our goal aside) we have been pretty shite.
Big change in midfield without Kilkenny as well.

And Delaney at the back being rusty didnt help, but he does need game time, and better in a competition like that that doesnt really matter, but a win would have been nice, or at least avoid defeat.

Zero wins in 9 games, if I'm being honest I can't see when we'll get our first.

The removal of Butterworth saw our spark diminish

Didn’t really look like scoring and really shakey in defence. Long long season ahead.

We didnt play too bad but fucking hell this is frustrating to watch. Literally no creativity at all

Good teams play badly and win.

We seem to mastering playing fine and losing. Not a good habit.

Taxi for Mr Kennedy?

Nope, but needs to start picking up some wins asap. Willing to give him the benefit of the doubt so far (Chesterfield, Notts County and Walsall look tough games on paper) but last season we only avoided the drop due to our first 9 games. With a slow start to the season, well, could spell danger.

 just another defeat.  I don't expect anything less at the moment.

I do remember Maurice Malpas getting sacked after an EFL Trophy game, which was odd. This team reminds me a bit of that one actually, not truly terrible but just no real threat.

Kilkenny, Butterworth, Barden, all looked OK for the new signings.
Delaney needed the minutes which is a plus.
Shame Mcgregor didn't play.
First 65-70 was even and we played alright, subs changed that.

The competition itself isn't important but shame to lose another game. My Exeter mates thought we looked alright but easy to get at the defence.....

I'd like to see a midfield three of Kilkenny, Clarke and Butterfield on Saturday which could have a decent balance to it, albeit I haven't been overly impressed with Clarke so far.

Wasnt it Histon in the cup he got sacked after?

It was a defeat at Brighton in the whatever cup it was then

Who have we got in this team who can beat a man, out pace a defender or play a killer through ball? Nobody.

Think we went out of the fa cup on the Saturday and the JPT on the Wednesday night before he went.

I know we don't want to win this cup, it's pointless, so I'm not that fussed at the result.

What I have seen so far this season is a Meh team, middling ability wise, there is some effort there, but really lacking in quality going forward and a midfield that seems unable or unwilling to track people, no matter who plays there.

Their second goal was just so poor - two players go off to mark the corner flag!  It's not like he had a Messi drop of the shoulder in him, he just went the other way and our two kept trotting.

Overall we seem to be short of something.  My hope is the general shitness level of our players is not as bad as it was when we had the like of Ward, or Shade as the options.  Our poor players at least seem semi competent, so we should be able to organise a few wins out of them, surely?

We’re in absolute free fall. Haven’t won since April 13th. Don’t look close to winning a game. Even Morecambe managed a win tonight.

Thats where ive got confused, cheers

We’re a million miles off a league 2 Wellens or Garner team.

Yeap.

Lost to Histon 1-0 on the Saturday, then four days later lost to Brighton 2-0 EFL trophy area quarter final.

He was sacked on the Thursday Morning.  :bye:

 Only person I want sacked is the owner


With him we are heading to the National league

In isolation a reasonable performance against higher league oppo in a pointless cup.

In context of the season some worrying trends are showing. Of course we can break them. But that's not guaranteed.

We look a fair way off being even a Flitcroft team in terms of effectiveness too which is more concerning

Yeah that's about the long and short of it. Possibly additionally a worry that we got worse when we brought on five first team players too.

STFC concerning - has a ring about it🤣

Defence needs to stand firm and stop dropping off and giving strikers a free shot at goal the  last 4 goals all from outside the box and all because our defence stood off rather than closed them down

 :hmmm: :hmmm: A defensive midfielder like Ofoborh might help !

Doomed (At least until Saturday)

Looking for the panic button

Yes.
Should have closed down both of McGoldricks goals quicker on Saturday.

The telling stat for me, according to BBC, was their 24 touches in our box, compared to our 7 in theirs.

We aren't going to keep losing to quality long range strikes every week.

True, I’m sure at some point we’ll starting losing to goals scored in the box as well.

I knew you would say that. :)

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wDAHhORPCw

I'm sure things will click soon .

I don't think I agree with Mr Kennedy's assessment.

I don't think that was a 'really good performance'. And I didn't think that 'some of our football was outstanding'. I understand focusing on the positives, but an 'outstanding performance against a really, really good side' and the 'results not reflecting the performances' are stretching it a bit.

Kennedy thinks we are in 'a really good place' and '3 weeks behind schedule' because he wasn't there in preseason. Again, not sure I agree with the first statement and am not sure whether another 3 weeks will see us become a lot more tighter in defence and more creative and clinical at the other end of the pitch. But, I will say that the last 2 games have been much better than the others - although the other games have been a low bench mark and absolutely abysmal.

Kennedy speaks well, but someone mentioned Maurice Malpas. He had the pedigree to succeed, but served up utter shite. I hope Mr Kennedy doesn't do the same.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp8HHlYtrLs

Just watched the 'highlights' again.

That could have been much worse had Ali (and Doyle) not been so profligate. e.g. Minturn and Delaney gifted them gilt edged chances.

For the two goals, Cotterill was the man who was slow to react to the short corner (Tshimanga tried to cover) and was on his heals and out of position from the throw in (watching King complain to the 4th official). Great strike for his goal, but, he seems a massive weak link in midfield to me, both offensively and defensively. He's got something about him, but looks unprepared for the speed of the game.

Worryingly we have bought in a team of 'rated' who now do not know how to defend.

The midfield and defence just leave the runners and let then run into space....

The wingback leave tye wingers with acres of space then try to defend when they've guy the ball.

When the opposition is near our box there is no closing down....

I put it down to Kennedy and bignot and their coaching.

Not looking good fir the season so far

I've only watched the highlights. The defence looks atrocious for sure, I hope they were told to take it easy yesterday.

Tshimanga looked sharp with a couple of shots, get him in front of Glatzel for now.

With the internet, social media & how everything a manager says now is probably accessible all over the world forever in multiple formats - I don’t listen to a word any manager or player says.

They are all heavily media trained & say whatever they can to appease everyone and upset anyone or saying anything that can come back to bite them. All very diplomatic.

I hope to Jebus that’s what it is - rather than Kennedy believing his words…

We are in big big trouble. Squad is nowhere near it

Clips can be taken out of fill context too. Not saying they has happened here.

We do seem to be dividing into camps of "the squad isn't good enough" and "the squad is fine, the management team isn't working". It's very early for both but I think I'm closer to the latter - I could see a gnarly League Two manager making us a very difficult team to beat and good on set pieces. Open play creativity definitely a problem.

I'm not Kennedy out yet, but I don't think he's been set up to fail half as much as Flynn, Lindsay and Morris all were.

I'm not quite there yet. But in what we've seen so far it's hard to argue against though.

For me it's a bit early to form a definite opinion.

We do look leaky and shy of creativity which is a perfect storm.

Just hoping there is more to come from then all. Take Clarke for example. Totally anonymous so far. Surely he's got more about him than we've seen to have had the steady career he's had.

Our closing down of long range shots is atrocious

Although a fans favourite at Mansfield, I think he lost his place last season and was used as more of a squad player towards the end.

I think the squad is ok & the management should be getting more out of them.
As has been said the midfield set up has been baffling at times & can’t help but think the Ofoborh we saw at the back end of last season would be a massive help.

He never got his position back after suffering a fairly bad injury last season.

At times he looks very good but at times he looks well past his best. I hope the good games will start to outweigh the bad soon.

That may explain it. Finding fitness and consistency.

His legs have gone imo. Looks like he is always trying to do the right thing but just can't do it anymore.

Problem we have is i would say half the squad will always be chasing fitness. Not sure anyone noticed last night but Kilkenny looked to pull up injured too but i hope i seen that wrong

Agree and I believe that Kennedy is getting something of a free pass from fans largely because of the problems higher up the club. His post match assessment of performances have been overly positive, bordering on delusional. The only performance that for the whole game came even close to very good was Notts County. The others have been abject (Walsall) to average, with 15-20 minute spells of good thrown in. I want to see more honesty in his post match interviews, along the lines of Wellens who tended to say it as it was. For once we have a reasonably balanced squad with many experienced heads who should be able to deal with a candid assessment of their performances.

In addition some of his decisions appear to be questionnable at best, the most glaring error being using Cotterill as CDM in the first few games and Ofoborh further forward when they are both clearly more suited to the other roles.  We have consistently lacked creativity and even though it is very early days, the lack of an entertaining or effective playing style together with a record of no wins and 4 losses in the first 6 games is of significant concern.

Time will tell and I hope I am proved wrong, but based on evidence to date he seems to be cut from the same cloth as some of those above him i.e spouting optimistic/delusional bullshit and delivering very little.

Totally passed me by. Lets hope you are seeing things then!

I think I can forgive him on that. He's trying to keep everything positive. If he really believes what he is saying we are in trouble but no point ripping into them right now.

Butterworth could be the key to unlock the midfield conundrum. Also would've liked to see Smith and Tshimanga as a 2 last night. Could be a winner in my book

I was at Brighton that night.....that was his last chance...win that and he would of carried on. He knew he was gone.

A free hit and it wasnt taken.

We werent shit but still looked likely to implode at certain times.

Exeter fluffed a fear gilt edges into the bargain.

Sobo and Butterworth looked good and the Keeper looked confident.

Drinan? FFS, he was like a hindrance last night. Gave away the corner for their first but needlessly heading the ball and it was criminal that he didnt put Butterworth through on that run. What was he thinking!? Or perhaps he just didnt. The jury is finally out for me with Drinan...and its a long stretch.

The second goal? sheeesh! Where were the defenders going?....thats dogshit on a Sunday morning.
Sweet strike but unlike Saturday where a bit of skill made an opening for McGoldrick, Aitchison could of relaced his boots before hitting it!

You can see glimpses but fuck me, here we are with zero wins after seven odd games, shipped a load and scored a few. The reality is harsh.

The post match interviews are starting to grate a bit.

Sorry but that was not a great performance Kennedy. Not by a long chalk.

We now go to Barrow on Saturday and then an undoubted feisty encounter with Newport.

I think we beat Barrow up there last season, so hopefully we are a Bogey Team !!

Maybe we can rise to the occassion in the 'derby' with Newport.

Not winning is a bad habit, and we need rehab at the minute.

Everybody needs a break at the moment.....lets hope it comes Saturday.

No need to rip in to them, just be balanced and he isnt at all. Its all excellent this and excellent that. Fans want and deserve an honest assessment post match.

Copy and paste job from the last thread. I'll probably get a lot of use out of this season.

Another game, another reminder we are in freefall and going down.

Has news reached the dwindling Clem fan club yet?

Note for any Swindon coaching staff that read this.

Could you please ask Cotterill when marking an opposition player when they are attacking to stand goalside please. Nothing too complicated, I learnt it at 6 years old.

Would potentially stop him giving away freekicks in dangerous positions.

He does do that a lot. My lad and I were screaming at him yesterday!

In the public eye maybe, behind closed doors?, hopefully nicely ripping them a new one.

Went all flat after we made a few subs.
To me going forward Ofoborh has to be our main CDM, hopefully he just got a knock and not fallen out with the boss.  The middle youngers have some skill, but the balance is so weak.

Where’s the width, where’s the width coming from to get down the byline and supply crosses into the box🤣

None of the Midfielders track their runners......

None of the wingbacks track the runners until it's to late...

Had you read back?

I thought Minturn was decent. On said "goal" I believe he was doing the right thing by going out to mark his man who was on the overlap.Why the fuck Wright(?) followed him,god knows