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Viking Chat => Lucky Pint => Topic started by: RoverinLincs on March 15, 2025, 12:32:03 pm
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I thought I’d be late to the Lucky Pint, and ended up opening up!
Rovers to win 1-2 today
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.....if we score first that is! I am worried if we do not.
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Since when has there been a rule that you can't get a yellow after the whistle has gone? Free kick for Crewe but their player took then out Bailey - yellow every day of the week
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I am now officially worried, we don't react well to going down. Could be a loss today.
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1:0 - that was so easy...
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1-0 Our second choice defence all at sea :headbang:
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I thought he controlled with his left hand for the goal
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Sh*t defending
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We ve looked awful so far
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Up hill struggle now think it will be another Bromley
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Full back situation looks very dodgy in first minutes
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horrific start we look awful.
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Not what the doctor ordered. Routine set piece not defended.
Plenty of time thankfully.
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I thought he controlled with his left hand for the goal
ye he’s charged that down with his mit.
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Up hill struggle now think it will be another Bromley
Crewe are a better side, I think it may turn out way worse than Bromley if we are not careful.
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Wayward passing and lack of control... need someone to get a hold of the ball
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I've seen better defending from school kids.
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Why the hell are we playing a high defensive line from a free kick that close, can't believe we are running towards goal from there, horrific defending. Already Crewe have quality balls into our box, we are hitting the first defender again.
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We looks miles away from a top 3 side.
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Defending and attacking from set pieces is really weak, whoever coaches this (i believe it is a goalkeeping coach) should be sacked.
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We need an experienced, steady and strong midfielder....
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Just seen the goal replay. Offside and then handball. Yet more stunning officiating in this sh*t league.
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We need an experienced, steady and strong midfielder....
We needed one in January and signed a kid who now can’t get a game.
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Rovers making it a nice easy win for Crewe, poor defending, no midfield work and no shots on target.
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Well, if we win today, it will be a first this season.
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Well, if we win today, it will be a first this season.
In the league - we did come back to win at Kettering
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We looks miles away from a top 3 side.
We look miles away from being a footballing side
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Worst opening 30 minutes I’ve seen in ages
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"Rovers get a corner at last and Gibson wastes it again with a final floater over everyone. The last one went straight to their defender who was the first man." This is from my mate watching the game
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Crewe 4 shots, 3 on target, Rovers 4 shots 1 on target. So many times, even if we win this is the trend of stats.
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Surely things can only get better?
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We don't look at team up for promotion
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Very much second best that half. TSL keeping the score to 1-0. Not one decent effort on goal from us.
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Terrible 1st half. We don't look like a team fighting for points to gain auto promotion!!
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Abysmal so far. Nothing more to be said really
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Sterry sorely missed. Nixon prefers the back pass.
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Gibson's having a shocker, fallen over his shadow 3 times. And there's no sun.
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Midfield has been the obvious weak link all season and never been addressed.
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Unless we get it right in front of goal the team which is not as good as last season at this time will start sliding. The left side been average if not poor all season. Midfield not good enough the young lads we have brought in was the wrong decision.
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Pathetic first half, I hope bollockings are being dished out right now, that was simply not good enough
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Missing Olowu’s guile, calmness and pace at the back.
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You are going to have to earn your money this half Grant.
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We need to get at least a point from this game, which will be a great result based on how bad we've been 1st half!
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Just to go back again to a point we have discussed over and over again about the shit refs we get.
Crewe got a free kick right on 45 minutes and one minute of added on time is announced.
Thirty five seconds of that minute pass before the free kick is taken even the commentator says that the minute will start from now (when the free kick is taken) but as usual the half time whistle went right on 46 minutes.
I know that isn’t why we are behind but it really pisses me off about how teams waste time and get away with it.
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Poor game so far - Crewe are not great either. I would like to see an injection into the middle of the park. Would pull Gibson and Broadbent and stick Crew and Kelly on..
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There should have been at least 3 minutes
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Poor game so far - Crewe are not great either. I would like to see an injection into the middle of the park. Would pull Gibson and Broadbent and stick Crew and Kelly on..
We need to get Clifton & Gibson off they have been awful
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We’re playing with 10 men. Again!!!! How the hell have we got to a point where we have a binary choice between Clifton or Sbarra? They’re both rotten and offer us zip.
The sky commentator said at the start of the match that Clifton returns today in the playmaker role. I spat me tea all over the dog!! I don’t know what he is but he ain’t that.
Need to get Kelly on in that position now. Best of a bad job really
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Again, my mate's assessment of the first half after watching it. "Well that was absolutely dismal. Rovers showing all their inadequacies again. Poor set play, attacking and defending. No wing play, no midfield possession. Street not aware enough and getting caught offside too often. If it wasn’t for Sharman it would have been 3-0. I can’t see Rovers winning this one going on what’s happened in similar games this season. "
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These are the games we need to get something out of if we are to avoid the play offs.
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The disappointing thing for me this season is the way we have overly relied on the long ball. Yes we get the odd goal via it but I’d much rather see us play through midfield. The continuous reliance on the long ball virtually every game just illustrates our lack of ability in midfield. We have just not addressed it since last season.
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There should have been at least 3 minutes
Don't give Crewe more time to score! I'm glad they have come off, maybe GM can change things, but I am not too sure he has the personnel to do that.
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It was bad enough to make changes at half time. No control of the midfield, the defence looks very dodgy. I would get Ironside and Sharp on and push Street wide.
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Three free kicks we've played a high line from & they've scored easily from 1 of them. Who is actually coaching this in training? Does Grant have a big say in this or does he just leave it to his staff. We look miles off a promotion seeking team, in fact we just don't look like a team at all, so predictable to play against. Crewe had the ball out wide & committed 6 players into the box, we however get the ball wide to our centre forward, & committed zero. Massive improvement needed this half.
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Ironside for gibbo
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I would bring Sbarra on for Clifton, Kelly on for Broadbent.
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Do we not practice corners.
The deliveries are so poor
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Anderson having a mare
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Really miss our normal back four
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We need to get the excuses in nice and early. Il start. New back 4
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On s positive note, Lee Turnbull is a breath if fresh air as Co commentator
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Anderson having a mare
He needs to take the lead out of his boots.
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Awful referee, and Moly now stupidly booked for disputing a bad decision
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With Crewe being a footballing team, this was surely a game for more technically gifted players such as Crewe Sbarra, yet Grant takes the best player we had in the game off - this is on Grant if we lose, totally got the selection wrong
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Gibson? He had a shocker?
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Crewe now 7 shots 6 on target, Rovers 6 shots 1 on target. We know how this is going now.
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An hour played so it’s a tactical break lads.
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Gibson? He had a shocker?
Not a shocker, but he was just as ineffective as he normally is.
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No passion or desire, If the players can’t get up for these games at this time of the season, they don’t deserve to be in the team!
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Bromley revisited here.
Four more subs being made all at once.
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When he just chucks a whole host of players at it like this, do we think he knows what he’s doing?
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Ennis??????? Why, never showed anything to prove he will change this game
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Bromley revisited here.
Four more subs being made all at once.
I thought we played well at Bromley - not today though
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Grant panicking and making 4 subs
Suppose it can't be any worse
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When he just chucks a whole host of players at it like this, do we think he knows what he’s doing?
Sharp and Ironside together has never worked apart from a stormy night at Fleetwood. Yet he keeps doing it.
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Any pace that we did have, which ain’t much, we’ve removed from the field. I just don’t get it.
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Two minutes wasted there by a Crewe player sitting down and eventually being subbed off.
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I reckon we don't deserve to go up. Too erratic all season long, zero stability, zero craft and zero playing as a team. We've survived on a big budget allowing us to buy (some) good individuals but that's what we've been all season long. A bunch of individuals. If this lot got promoted with this manager we wouldn't stay up long would we?
BobG
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Bloody hell!!!!! 1-1
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Phew
Forget the last 70 mins. Game on!
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I hope so! COYR!!!!
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Come on Donny keep at it
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Watch Crewe actually play at normal speed now
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Got to just send Ennis back, he is absolute garbage. Can’t control the ball. Worse than Yeboah. Should not be on the pitch at all.
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Gone too open now - TSL keeping us in it
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Oyr lack of pace is so evident now
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Nobody anticipating a flick on from Ironside.... he has won several headers and no one has been running onto them
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Looked like handball there, but probably would have been harsh
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Off the post, how unlucky
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5 minutes to save a promotion push, get on with it Rovers!!!
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13shots only 2 on target again terrible
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We should have had 2 pens here.
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Looked a penalty there
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Anywhere else on the pitch and that's a free kick
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Ploughed straight through the back of him
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A dangerous free kick, don't waste it!
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Late free kick to win it....?
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No
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Would have preferred to win obviously but a draw isn’t a disaster.
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Good substitutions. Hate to say it but Gibson was woeful again today. TSL great game. Good commentary today too!!
Penalties missed by the ref.
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Why did we not start to step up the pace until the subs came on? Such poor team selection by McCann.
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Good point in the end considering how bad we were 1st half
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14 shots, only 2 on target. How many more times does this have to happen before it is addressed in training. Rovers are either not setting goal scoring opportunities properly or they are not making the most of them. GM said he was dragging them over the line, he might find that difficult if we don't beat these teams.
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Another bottle job from ref and players easy penalty decision for the foul on sbarra anywhere else on the pitch its a foul and maybe a red card
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Come on Carlisle and AFC Wimbledon today at least
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Long and the short of it. We’re just not good enough
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That was an awful referee, yet again. He gave us nothing. We get a free kick with 30 seconds to go, and as soon as we take it, he blows for full time.
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Teddy man of the match.
We could still get lucky if other results go our way. We need chesterfield to do us a favour
It’s going to be the big games we need to win. Beat Walsall, Notts, Bradford, Salford and Wimbledon we should be up
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These shots on target comments are just wrong.
I can think of at least three shots on target that were blocked or deflected wide.
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TSL deffo MoM!
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14 shots, only 2 on target. How many more times does this have to happen before it is addressed in training. Rovers are either not setting goal scoring opportunities properly or they are not making the most of them. GM said he was dragging them over the line, he might find that difficult if we don't beat these teams.
The passing is generally poor and completely haphazard in the attacking third.
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Lack of quality, we won’t win any leagues or get promoted playing like that. Uglied a point there. Crewe have a couple of players that could play at a higher level. Clifton was terrible, Gibson lacking any confidence. Why not start the next game with the same two up top and Street out wide.
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14 shots, only 2 on target. How many more times does this have to happen before it is addressed in training. Rovers are either not setting goal scoring opportunities properly or they are not making the most of them. GM said he was dragging them over the line, he might find that difficult if we don't beat these teams.
5 blocked that were on target and 1 hit the post. It wasnt like they all were off target.
The shots stats are a poor thing to use.
You could have a tame shot trickle straight to the keeper that he catches and it counts. But a rocket heading for the top corner that gets blocked on the line doesnt count.
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These shots on target comments are just wrong.
I can think of at least three shots on target that were blocked or deflected wide.
A shot blocked is not counted as on target, it needs to go in or be saved when going in
And shots hitting woodwork are deemed 'off target'
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Lack of quality, we won’t win any leagues or get promoted playing like that. Uglied a point there. Crewe have a couple of players that could play at a higher level. Clifton was terrible, Gibson lacking any confidence. Why not start the next game with the same two up top and Street out wide.
So basically you are saying that crewe have quality but we dont? Did they actually outplay us??
They were the team who was holding on and will be glad of the point. We hit the post and had a couple of penalty shouts turned down.
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14 shots, only 2 on target. How many more times does this have to happen before it is addressed in training. Rovers are either not setting goal scoring opportunities properly or they are not making the most of them. GM said he was dragging them over the line, he might find that difficult if we don't beat these teams.
5 blocked that were on target and 1 hit the post. It wasnt like they all were off target.
The shots stats are a poor thing to use.
You could have a tame shot trickle straight to the keeper that he catches and it counts. But a rocket heading for the top corner that gets blocked on the line doesnt count.
I think blocked on line is on target, but blocked at or near source is not
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Just not good enough today. Missing the fullbacks and Joe. Fair play on the changes but you cant be chucking on the cavalry every week in desperation. We didnt look like we knew what a football was for the first half hour.
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GM trying not to get promoted with Rovers since 2019.
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What do we have to do to get a penalty, that at the end was as sure a penalty as you’ll ever see
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These shots on target comments are just wrong.
I can think of at least three shots on target that were blocked or deflected wide.
A shot blocked is not counted as on target, it needs to go in or be saved when going in
And shots hitting woodwork are deemed 'off target'
I know all that Dutch but I’m saying that people put too much emphasis on the stat.
If a shot is going on target and is blocked by a defender then very obviously it is a shot on target.
Some people only go by the stats and not what their own eyes should see.
Ennis himself had two shots late on, the first would have gone in but was blocked and from the rebound his next shot was on target but was deflected onto the post.
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These shots on target comments are just wrong.
I can think of at least three shots on target that were blocked or deflected wide.
A shot blocked is not counted as on target, it needs to go in or be saved when going in
And shots hitting woodwork are deemed 'off target'
I know all that Dutch but I’m saying that people put too much emphasis on the stat.
If a shot is going on target and is blocked by a defender then very obviously it is a shot on target.
Some people only go by the stats and not what their own eyes should see.
Ennis himself had two shots late on, the first would have gone in but was blocked and from the rebound his next shot was on target but was deflected onto the post.
Exactly this hound.
But because crewe had a couple of shots that went tamely straight at teddy then people think they are better.
Majority of their shots were on target but not really threating.
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I guess it's who is the better team on the day, it's not clear cut by the all the comments and it will make for a difficult run in, we are going to have to be the better team for most of the remaining matches.