Away Match Day Thread 10-04-2021 L1 Crewe Alexandra v OUFC

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Absolutely superb performance. Some thoughts:

- Agyei can play as a winger it seems :). That cross was a beauty and great positioning from Sam Winnall, who also got properly involved today.

- Excellent from our full backs today. The team looks so much better with Long and Ruffels playing. Moore and Atkinson looked happier as a result. Pleased for Moore to score that goal and took it well. That header by Josh Ruffels for the 1st goal was perfection.

- The classy James Henry is back. Some of his crosses and passes were just superb.

- Mark Sykes of the 2nd half and to a lesser extent the 1st half, I want to see more of. His ball control is always generally pretty good but his end product needs to be more consistent. Chances like the 1st half one needs to be taken more often, but some of his runs in the 2nd half and little interchanges were just excellent and show what he can do.

- JS looked solid in what he had to do especially reacting to the deflected shot in the 2nd. Especially considering he didn't have a lot to actually do.

- Shodipo looks totally out of form. I reckon his shot at the end may have passed the International Space Station. I like that he kept trying though even when he was struggling to get involved and liked his closing down.

- Lee had some really good spells but also at times in the first 20 minutes slowed play down too much on the right when it really needed to be sped up. I wonder if occasionally him and Barker should switch wings in the game as Lee in the past has been effective on the left and cutting in. I would happily see us sign him permanently.

- Still not sure how Rob Atkinson getting rugby tackled in the penalty area wasn't a penalty. Also could have been a red card as it was a goal scoring opportunity with their player making no effort at going for the ball. Fortunately didn't matter.

- I think Beckles will be having nightmares about that game tonight.

- Artell is still an a**e.

Edit: Remiss of me not to mention Barker who was excellent. A very exciting player to watch when playing like that. I loved that he won the ball back for his goal and the strike was sweet as, beautifully going through Beckles legs.
 
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OxfordNondie said:
Take out the first 10 mins, a really professional performance.
Maybe too late and not sure it changes my mind about the quality of the squad.

However Mr KR this is what happens when you play a settled side. They progress, get to know each other better.
And start to produce performances like this.
Please no more tinkering this season and we may just fluke a playoff place
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Tbf, considering the condensed nature of this season and injuries, the stupid squad size limit, squad rotation has been a necessity.
 
OX14 said:
Their keeper was not dreadful, not only did he save the penalty, he saved 2 good chances for Sykes and Henry. His defence let him down though.
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Agree with that. He maybe could have done better on Moore's goal, but then so could their defence. Also, the goal kick for the 2nd goal which he takes a share of the blame along with the defenders, albeit I don't think he gets any blame for not stopping James Henry's shot.
 
Paul Cannell said:
Well of course. If they hadn't missed 2 sitters it would have been 3-2 just after halftime, and all our finishing luck came at once.

BTW the reason we were playing through them was because the full backs were making it possible so we could get some decent movement in the forwards.

I was just trying to be positive and enjoy the result.
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But ... Sykes missed a sitter and we had a blatant pen not given!
 
Yellowlab said:
It was so much better before that was put in.

It was a great area to goad away fans in the Cuckoo Lane and sometimes to exchange coins with them.
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I was up there for the 3-2 win against Arsenal in '84/5 Milk Cup, there was a really hostile atmosphere, which was an eye opener for a 12 year old.
 
Yellowlab said:
It was so much better before that was put in.

It was a great area to goad away fans in the Cuckoo Lane and sometimes to exchange coins with them.
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Was up there for my first game against Newcastle in the League Cup in '83. I was only a kid but was still being spat on by some away fans so when an 80's tomato shaped ketchup bottle was thrown over the fencing I took great delight in squirting it back through the fence at my new found Geordie friends!!
 
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