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Wintle was immense so I think he deserves the acolade of MOM today
a shout out to our keeper too who produced some saves when it mattered and of course both our goal scorers
who's your choice ?
Rubin.
Kpacio is clearly a real talent. Faded last 15.
Winter by country mile. He was on his own in the centre much of the game.
Kpakio was my MOTM. Very good battle against Peterborough's nippy Number 10, scored the wonder goal in the second, and was a constant presence and thorn in most Boro attacks.
Wintle played very well too, as did Rubin and I was very impressed by Turner in goal too.
He’s got something, but he’s young, and is still learning the game. He must learn not to over-commit himself. He got caught out half a dozen times this afternoon, and a better side would have taken advantage of his lack of experience. Peterborough gradually directed everything down that side. Over on the left, Bagan had a pretty quiet game.
R Cowlill by a country mile. Scored a superb free kick and laid on several other chances for his team mates. Looked like a big boy playing against younger kids when he got on the ball.
Kpakio and Wintle the best of the rest.
R Colwill easily
So the man of the match thread descends into a let’s knock the 18 year old match winner one. I thought Kpakio got caught out the once near the end and his poor throw in got Lawlor booked, but, apart from that, I thought he was very good and, on a day when we gave the ball away carelessly quite a lot, he was one who I felt confident about when he was in possession.
Think Rubin Colwill deserved the man of the match, Tanner and Kpakio were candidates, as was Wintle and Joel Colwill had a good second half.
Think one or two on here like to look for someone to have a go at.
Wintle for me, with Rubin a very close second. Nobody had a poor game.
A few good performances today. The midfield 3 were all good, but Wintle probably edges it for me for MOTM. Kpakio was good but had his moments towards the end which can be expected, he's an outstanding prospect along with Lawlor who struggled after his booking. I think Tanner was very good too, always available and linked up well with JC. I do think we need tk sometimes get the ball into the box a bit earlier for Yousef. The 3 times Tanner did get it in early created three very good chances.
Just think a thread started to discuss who was man of the match should be positive in tone, but, instead,we get messages making no other point than to be critical of a teenager who scored the winning goal from full back and appeared in the thread because someone thought he was a candidate for man of the match. There’s no reference to who our best player was in these messages, just critical comments about one player. Kpakio seems to be a pretty intelligent footballer to me and he’ll probably know what he’ll need to improve on, but I’d also say the point that he got no support from our right winger in that incident when he lost posssession is a fair one.
As for our wingers, I’d make the observation that, if they’re going to stay wider under this manager (which seems to be the case on the evidence we’ve seen so far) wouldn’t it be better for them to play on their “natural” side (i.e. Ashford on the right and Tanner on the left)? If wingers are being told to stay wide, aren’t they more likely to want to take on their marker on the outside hence it being likely that they will be crossing from positions what I’ll call traditional wingers would get into?