by RoyalBlue »
06 Dec 2021 10:38
Hound Millsy CountryRoyal
Exactly, he’s young and it’s the first mistake that has directly cost us a goal. No complaints at all really, all players make mistakes, it happens.
Agreed.
It must've been mentioned above and I missed it, but he took one hell of a nasty bash smashing into the post earlier, might've had something to do with it.
really minor in the grand scheme, and being as we scored in the second min of injury time - but the warning signs were there when the ref gave 1 min of injury time in the first half - yet southwood must have been treated for something like 3-4 mins by itself
Not worried about him - as said, one mistake. Overall his general play has been excellent. It was a poor mistake but I guess only because keepers normally make that kind of thing look easy. It was hit reasonably hard and he was back peddling
It was a bad mistake and he was 'set' in position as ball was struck. Not sure the head bang (which itself came from a shaky moment) could be blamed as he hadn't looked at his best even before that. Probably his worst game since he's come into the team but as Gooding said, every single professional goalkeeper has made bad mistakes in their career. Reality is every single keeper (and indeed player) at any level has bad games and makes mistakes at some point. He'll put it behind him and come back strong.
What I liked was that rather than having a go and/or stand their looking daggers, as I've seen far too many players do to keepers in that situation, Scott Dann went straight up to him, shook his hand and gave him words of encouragement.