A few weeks ago, Mr Holloway made the point that it would be the most consistent teams that would end up at the top of the table come the end of the season. How maddening then, to play well at Hull, coming away with three valuable points, then abjectly surrender all three at home the following Saturday.
At Hull, we started brightly, playing neat attractive passing football and got our reward through a well taken goal from Matt Phillips. We were good value for the lead but then let in a goal from nowhere as Aluko shot from distance. Yet again, we came out sluggishly and were punished with a second goal, but had resilience and ability in abundance to fight back and prevail with a fantastic overhead kick from Dicko.
As a consequence, I went to the Charlton game knowing we’d be full of confidence and capable of building on that. In the first half that was borne out as we dominated possession but had nothing to show for it. Yet again, we started the second half sluggishly, and yet again conceded from a setpiece, but this time were unable to get back into the game. We seemed to lose balance as we threw forwards on to get it back, and ended up going long with absolutely no end product.
There’s a fortnight’s break to put it right, but for me, we need to stick with the patient passing game, not panic and go long. When we keep the ball,we are a match for anyone but the team don’t seem to have the belief.
STARMAN: Gary Taylor-Fletcher
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