So I’ve just driven back up to Aberdeen after watching yesterday and I must say I was really surprised with us. I thought we looked excellent.
You can see our manager was a solid centre half as we look solid. I’ve never seen us look so defensively strong as a unit. Our squad is huge, maybe our tallest squad?
Mix that with the flare players in attack which we clearly have, and ball playing midfielders which we have. It looks really, really good and it was pleasing on the eye.
However.... Williams looked knackered after 60 mins, probably because of Ajose. Don’t get me started on him. I don’t know whether MT told him to stay narrow but he offered no width at all and did completely jack sh*t. As soon as Martin came on for him it looked as though he was doing the job Ajose should have been doing - offering width. It looked as though Ajose didn’t take the sub off too well... I’m sure MT will sort his attitude out.
Dean Moxey went to ground around 4/5 times yesterday, which is no problem if he wins the ball, but he doesn’t. And Aaron Martin isn’t quick enough to cover him every single time. So that was a concern, but he looked good, especially on the ball.
One thing which worried me was how we changed systems about 3/4 times in the second half, maybe it’s complimenting how good Swindon were. The system we started with looked solid, and the 4-2-3-1 system we finished with looked exciting.
Really impressed with us and hats off to Matt. We will be up there this season with Swindon, and I do think Argyle will be too purely because they have Danny Mayor. The top 3 maybe?
You can see our manager was a solid centre half as we look solid. I’ve never seen us look so defensively strong as a unit. Our squad is huge, maybe our tallest squad?
Mix that with the flare players in attack which we clearly have, and ball playing midfielders which we have. It looks really, really good and it was pleasing on the eye.
However.... Williams looked knackered after 60 mins, probably because of Ajose. Don’t get me started on him. I don’t know whether MT told him to stay narrow but he offered no width at all and did completely jack sh*t. As soon as Martin came on for him it looked as though he was doing the job Ajose should have been doing - offering width. It looked as though Ajose didn’t take the sub off too well... I’m sure MT will sort his attitude out.
Dean Moxey went to ground around 4/5 times yesterday, which is no problem if he wins the ball, but he doesn’t. And Aaron Martin isn’t quick enough to cover him every single time. So that was a concern, but he looked good, especially on the ball.
One thing which worried me was how we changed systems about 3/4 times in the second half, maybe it’s complimenting how good Swindon were. The system we started with looked solid, and the 4-2-3-1 system we finished with looked exciting.
Really impressed with us and hats off to Matt. We will be up there this season with Swindon, and I do think Argyle will be too purely because they have Danny Mayor. The top 3 maybe?
