by Big Foot »
10 Aug 2013 23:45
One of the better early season games I've seen in a few years and really we could/should have won. As others have said, Le Fondre / Pearce / Morrison were all brilliantly denied by the ginger kid in goal and we had other good chances from McCleary and Bridge too. At the other end, McCarthy wasn't truly tested that much.
Gunter was dire - absolute football nightmare when he managed to concede a corner for us....from one of our own corners and in Bolton's own half
Drenthe - obviously class but needs to channel it better. All well and good doing the fancy ball spinning tricks to make the defender look silly, but the putting a cross in right to the keepers hands so they can start a counter attack is only gonna end in tears.
Guthrie had probably his best game for us (not hard as he was mostly dire last season) and I was confused as to why Adkins took him off instead of the seemingly 'irreplaceable' McAnuff, who was doing his best audition of the lost boy from Peter Pan for 90 mins today.
Mostly positives to take from today and if we can work on our end product / attacking threat then we'll be in a commanding position in this league.