City 1 - 3 Maidenhead

[fromthestands]

Again feeling frustrated about last night’s result.



I would have been happy to sit there and watch us get outclassed for 90 minutes and taken a 4-0 hiding from a team that if looking at the table should be far superior. But once again we had a huge amount of possession and created so many chances but again came up short. Their team we're clinical and we werent.

I'd love to see the shots/shots on target stats for the past 2/3 games. We would have been massively ontop in this area on every occasion.  



We need to find the Fondop who played and scored a brace against Bath. Not sure where he’s gone but I felt that we really lacked a goal threat last night, we had so many chances that had they been up the other end of the pitch they would have been converted.



Tom looked fantastic when he came on and created so many goal scoring opportunities but we just couldn’t put the ball in the back of the net.



We’re looking really competitive in every game and if we had someone to put some of these chances away then there’s nothing stopping us from storming back up the table over the next couple of months and leave all this behind us.

[Rijs]

Agreed! The half minute in which their crucial second goal just before the break came was typical--Ofosu nearly scored at one end, but their keeper pulls off a great block--they clear the ball quickly, transfer it from their left to the right wing, the cross gets a partial deflection which made it float perfectly for the striker, and he finishes with a good header. Could have been 1-1 at half time, but instead we had a mountain to climb at 0-2 against the best defence in the league.

Credit to the lads in that they got halfway up it; for much of the final quarter, the league leaders really knew they were in a game as they worked hard to hold their lead. The final goal flattered them at the end, and there didn't seem so many positions difference between the two teams for so much of the match. But yes, it all depends in the end on what happens at either end of the pitch. We make the odd mistake at the back and get punished. Maidenhead don't make many mistakes. We create an equal number of chances, but they take a higher proportion of theirs, and it's partly down to confidence.

One thing to add was that I thought Scott Davies had a poor first half--he didn't get involved out wide on the right, and almost gifted them another goal with a terrible back pass. But he was a different player when the substitutions enabled him to come inside, and what a terrific strike for our single goal!