A great night at Bloomfield Rd when the team completely outplayed Birmingham but failed to capitalise on some great chances to kill the tie. Right from the off, we had their attack shackled while we, and Ince in particular, were creating havoc in their defence.
It’s not so much the final score as the performance that was so pleasing and I see no reason why we can’t go down to St Andrews and do the same. They will be expecting us to try and sit back and defend what we have, but we just don’t do that. The new found defensive solidity has given us a real platform to control games and with both Ferguson and Angel running the show in the middle, and Dobbie a real threat off the front men, we look a well balanced side.
I thought GTF had a great game, with intelligent headers and touches getting his fellow forwards involved at all times. All in all, a great performance that sets us up to progress. In many ways, history seems to be repeating itself as we now go to a team with a good home record, but 10 consecutive playoff wins demonstrates pretty conclusively that we revel in this format.
What is so heartwarming is that we can go into such a pressure game and enjoy it.
Finally, it would be fitting if we can progress on Wednesday night as a tribute to the fan who so sadly passed away during the game. My condolences to his family at this time.
STARMAN: THOMAS INCE
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