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Just shows how football goes, we probably played better against Blackpool and yet come away with 1 goal, though this must be a great confidence builder for Saturday, and for those who say its only Exeter, have a word. These games are tricky and please tell me the last time we won 5-0 away?
We have such an attacking midfield, thats goals will come and this time it was Routledge, another day it could easily be Buzacky or Balanta from midfield. The first half, we did not play well and it was frustrating to watch and I am really feeling for Vine at the moment, he is simply not the player he was before the injury. I hope it was down to the nature of the game (ie Cola Cola Cup), that he was not putting it all, but he doesn't seem to go in for the fifty fifty challenge and was pretty lethargic. Sometimes, players never come back from serious injuries and it could be a mental thing, who knows? His footballing brain is getting him by at the moment and he can pick a pass, but from what I've seen so far, he is a long way from his best. That would be my only negative from the night.
Okay, back to the positives and they were plenty of them. Routledge seems to be thriving under the attack minded Magilton Leadership and was tricky all night and looped a great first goal over the goalkeepers head and scored his second after good hold up work from Ageymang. Ageymang is another frustrating player, but he got stronger as the game progressed. The same comment applied to Hogan, who in the first half was very poor but seemed to gain in confidence when we went 1-0 up and even at the end had a great shot headed off the line. Pellicori did have some nice touches and deserved his goal.
Magilton tried to get Borrowdale and Connolly to overlap in the first half, when he got them in the dressing room at half-time, you can tell he got his message across. Borrowdale in the second half was a different player and have to say on the evidence I have seen, is the best crosser of a football we have at the club and he can defend. Why this kid got so much stick at the start who knows and even more baffling is that Delaney was preferred by the former manager
in the left back position.
On the whole, this will be a great confidence booster for the real stuff on Saturday and by having a bit of patience for the next 3-4 games, we will actually see if we need this striker some are begging for.
We have such an attacking midfield, thats goals will come and this time it was Routledge, another day it could easily be Buzacky or Balanta from midfield. The first half, we did not play well and it was frustrating to watch and I am really feeling for Vine at the moment, he is simply not the player he was before the injury. I hope it was down to the nature of the game (ie Cola Cola Cup), that he was not putting it all, but he doesn't seem to go in for the fifty fifty challenge and was pretty lethargic. Sometimes, players never come back from serious injuries and it could be a mental thing, who knows? His footballing brain is getting him by at the moment and he can pick a pass, but from what I've seen so far, he is a long way from his best. That would be my only negative from the night.
Okay, back to the positives and they were plenty of them. Routledge seems to be thriving under the attack minded Magilton Leadership and was tricky all night and looped a great first goal over the goalkeepers head and scored his second after good hold up work from Ageymang. Ageymang is another frustrating player, but he got stronger as the game progressed. The same comment applied to Hogan, who in the first half was very poor but seemed to gain in confidence when we went 1-0 up and even at the end had a great shot headed off the line. Pellicori did have some nice touches and deserved his goal.
Magilton tried to get Borrowdale and Connolly to overlap in the first half, when he got them in the dressing room at half-time, you can tell he got his message across. Borrowdale in the second half was a different player and have to say on the evidence I have seen, is the best crosser of a football we have at the club and he can defend. Why this kid got so much stick at the start who knows and even more baffling is that Delaney was preferred by the former manager
in the left back position.On the whole, this will be a great confidence booster for the real stuff on Saturday and by having a bit of patience for the next 3-4 games, we will actually see if we need this striker some are begging for.
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