| Player ratings and general thoughts on yesterday 11:41 - Aug 31 with 836 views | BlueOura |
Palmer- Didn't do too much wrong but does look very average overall. Better with his feet though yesterday, I thought. 6/10
Young - I thought he was one of our better players, good pass selection, came close to scoring and just amazes me with his fitness levels for a 40 year old. 7/10
O'Shea - Was going well until that awful 'chest down' for the second goal, what was he doing? Question marks over both centres backs on the build up to the penalty also. Need better from our captain. 5/10
Greaves - Generally ok and good to see him score but not sure where he was for the first Derby goal. Both centre halfs seem to be sleeping, or was it Leif keeping them onside? Diffcult to see from the highlights. 6/10
Davis - Seems to have a hangover from last season. Not yet close to the Leif we saw in 23/24, the 'inverted' position he is taking up at times is not really suiting his game, thus far. 6/10
Matisuwa - Getting better with each game, for me he was probably our best player, broke up play, won headers and generally passed it well. 7/10
Cajuste - Showed his class at times but far too laid back at other times. Needs to build his match fitness up before we can fully judge but he needs to affect games at this level or else will just end up being a bit of an expensive luxury, rather than a cheat code. 6/10
McAteer - Worked hard but little end product. Too early to make a fair judgement on him, but on early showings I have to say i'm struggling to see a 12m player. Hopefully he comes good. 6/10
Chaplin - Some good, some bad. I just feel he is too slow at times and gives the ball away cheaply. Had a great chance to get a shot away in the first half when one of Cajuste's flicks came off, putting him in acres of space, yet he chose to play a pass to Philogene and got it all wrong. If he is not popping up in those Chaplin positions and scoring, it is hard to see that he contributes enough to be the regular starter at number 10. 5/10
Philogene - I cant really work him out. Some great touches and at times looks like he is going to do some damage but it never really seems to happen. I'm still confident he will deliver at this level but yesterday wasn't his day. 6/10
Hirst - The less said the better really, was a real off day and hopefully he gets back to the Hirst we know pretty quickly. 4/10
Szmodics - Didn't really notice him to be honest, minimal impact.
Akpom - Took a while to get involved but showed promise when he did, thinking he may well be the best fit for the 10 role long term
Clarke - Fair play to him, looked more threatening than JP and showed real balls on the pen, I think he needed that in front of the North stand. I'd be tempted to start him on the left in the next game.
Taylor - Did ok and won the pen which saved us.
Azon - Not on for long but did show willing and enthusiasm.
Overall it was an ok performance but worryingly it was a game we should have won that we very nearly lost. We were clearly the better side but so we should be against Derby at home, with all due respect to them. We can't use their sh!thousery as an excuse, we need to be better overall and be far more clinical in both boxes. The two goals we conceded were desperately poor and we need to start keeping clean sheets asap.
We don't have time now to wait for the players to 'gel' in terms of getting results, peformances, yes, but we need to find a way to start picking up three points regularly otherwise we will be giving ourselves a mountain to climb even at this early stage. The window is all but done so we largely know what we have to work with. Over to KM and the coaching staff to work with this expensively assembled squad and make it happen, I still have faith that they will, but the pressure is on
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| Player ratings and general thoughts on yesterday on 11:45 - Aug 31 with 788 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
Only one I really disagree is Chaplin. He was the only one trying to unpick their defence- it’s just that no one showed the nous to run on to his one touch passes and flicks. We really miss his link up with Burns. |  | | |
| Player ratings and general thoughts on yesterday on 11:49 - Aug 31 with 769 views | Warkystache |
I moaned about Ashley Young yesterday as he gave a bad ball away second half but can accept he played well.
My MOTM was Matusiwa. Great performance, bustling, bringing the ball out and winning it back. I also thought Jack Clarke looked better on the left.
Chappers didn't offer much and seems to have lost a bit of belief in himself. Philogene had some nice touches but never seemed to get us anywhere. Hirst looked out-of-sorts. McAteer needs five touches when one would probably suffice but he's a nuisance on the right. Can't wait to see Egeli and Nunez added to this team - think we'll have better balance with them in. |  |
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| Player ratings and general thoughts on yesterday on 11:59 - Aug 31 with 679 views | BlueOura |
| Player ratings and general thoughts on yesterday on 11:45 - Aug 31 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
Only one I really disagree is Chaplin. He was the only one trying to unpick their defence- it’s just that no one showed the nous to run on to his one touch passes and flicks. We really miss his link up with Burns. |
We need him to start taking those half chances again if he is to justify a starting place in my opinion. He had one in the first half from a cut back and just didn't connect properly with his shot.
Agree about missing his link up with Burns though. Hopefully some time on the training ground will see similar link up developing between him and the likes of McAteer and Egeli | | | |
| Player ratings and general thoughts on yesterday on 12:08 - Aug 31 with 621 views | oldbeardy |
Philogene often had 2 men on him and that should have freed up space elsewhere - either Leif on the inside in his new role or someone on the edge of the box or heading for the by line. But he dwells on the ball too long when in that situation instead of taking it and moving it on quickly to exploit the space. Sometimes think it's similar with Clarke - cuts inside and dribbles across the pitch but doesn't release the ball quickly enough to exploit the space he's created. We looked great yesterday in that period where we moved the ball quickly, accepting of course that presumably Derby changed something after the break to stop that happening | | | |
| Player ratings and general thoughts on yesterday on 12:28 - Aug 31 with 559 views | cbower |
| Player ratings and general thoughts on yesterday on 12:08 - Aug 31 by oldbeardy |
Philogene often had 2 men on him and that should have freed up space elsewhere - either Leif on the inside in his new role or someone on the edge of the box or heading for the by line. But he dwells on the ball too long when in that situation instead of taking it and moving it on quickly to exploit the space. Sometimes think it's similar with Clarke - cuts inside and dribbles across the pitch but doesn't release the ball quickly enough to exploit the space he's created. We looked great yesterday in that period where we moved the ball quickly, accepting of course that presumably Derby changed something after the break to stop that happening |
Yep, Philogene just too slow to move the ball, either to psss or go at his man (which he just isn't even attempting). He is taking Leif"s space but doing nothing with it so as a team it's a lose-lose.
Indeed, if we move the ball quicker as a team, we look so much better and threatening. It looks so obvious to me but it's just not happening yet. |  |
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| Player ratings and general thoughts on yesterday on 16:29 - Aug 31 with 285 views | Tractor_Boy333 |
I thought after we scored we played much better in the first half with midfield bossing the game and was really expecting us to go on and win comfortably but the penalty right after half time really changed the game.
It was a dreadful second half to watch. Won’t pretend I wasn’t worried about Clarke taking the penalty but even if the keeper went the right way I doubt he would have saved it, hopefully that will breath some confidence into his game. | | | |
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