Sarge
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its only a friendlyHow the guck was that a free kick and Jesus is Kevin Friend blind how many yards did the palace claim extra for their throws
its only a friendlyHow the guck was that a free kick and Jesus is Kevin Friend blind how many yards did the palace claim extra for their throws
Off course not but wow all our 1st half eleven should have been bookedYup. Are you expecting the Palace legend and employee, who happens to be commentating on Palace TV to be neutral?
or slightly betterAll very encouraging for me. No reason why we shouldn't do at least as well as last season.
Good and bad from the second half:
Good:
Dickie still has it
Rob Hall seems so much sharper and fitter than he was, definitely good enough to be in our squad now
Liam Kelly can play a good ball in, and we had chances from corners at last
Bad:
Way too many individual errors from Oxford players
The new formation didn’t seem anywhere near as good
Gorrin can’t play in a more advanced central midfield position
Mousinho looked as dodgy as hell
Clare was a bit disappointing
Osei-Yaw doesn’t seem very effective as a central striker
Agyei showing good strength there
He’s wasted out wide. When you play the ball into his feet he can hold off any centre half, and looks to get on the turn and drive. He did this for fun during his loan at Coventry and there is footage galore of him doing it on YouTube. He’s raw and far from perfect (that, er, ‘shot’ was a bit off...) but he is a central striker who offers a different angle. If he’s going to be farmed out to the wing, forget it.Agyei looking really strong on the ball.
He’s wasted out wide. When you play the ball into his feet he can hold off any centre half, and looks to get on the turn and drive. He did this for fun during his loan at Coventry and there is footage galore of him doing it on YouTube. He’s raw and far from perfect (that, er, ‘shot’ was a bit off...) but he is a central striker who offers a different angle. If he’s going to be farmed out to the wing, forget it.
We have lost so much up front since Matty was taken off, confirms many supporters thoughts, that we need a striker
Did you not see Sam Long? I thought he was excellent in the first half.
Agyei is played as a winger - he doesn’t decide to go wide himself, that’s where he’s told to play when he features - and Osei was played as a central striker today. For me they were in the wrong positions. That they didn’t even swap for 15 minutes was bizarre.The only slight concern i have is no real back-up for Taylor. We have Agyei who seems to naturally gravitate to wide forward, and Derick Osei Yaw who also seems to be more of a wide player who prefers to run at the opposition goal rather than hold the ball up and bring others into play.
Agyei is played as a winger - he doesn’t decide to go wide himself, that’s where he’s told to play when he features - and Osei was played as a central striker today. For me they were in the wrong positions. That they didn’t even swap for 15 minutes was bizarre.
I'm getting used to seeing us on live streamed games. Hopefully they'll be more this pre season although I'm not sure how that can happen except for matches vs teams with their own TV service.