Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Finished 2-1, Barton hit the crossbar with a great free kick in added time, but Bristol were the better team in the second half and deserved their win as an awful lot of City players suffered from cramp in the closing minutes.

Thought Troy Perrett was the best footballer on the pitch.
He's looking a real prospect, yes.

Shame that. We let ourselves get bullied out of it in the second half. Couldn't stand up to their attacks, panicked when they pressed us and couldn't string any passes together. It was men against boys (if that's possible in an under-18 game) and people by me were getting up and going with 10-15 minutes to go, the ref would've stopped it if it was boxing.

Then, out of nowhere, we got back into it. Jac Thomas nailed a shot and the keeper made a great save, Ola (who was a handful and worked hard) had one deflected just wide and then Barton's free kick. It showed what we were capable of. Barton was a bit wasteful at times but they were struggling to cope with him, shame we didn't have Kpakio (or Jake Davies) up the other flank to really stretch them.

The better team won but still positives to take out of it, we've got some good youngsters coming through.