If a team can play not very well and draw - Sign of a team which isn’t complete rubbish? nufc
If a team can play not very well and draw – Sign of a team which isn’t complete rubbish?If a team can play not very well and draw – Sign of a team which isn’t complete rubbish?There is an often repeated footballing adage which says that if a team can play badly and win, then it is a sign of a good team. I suppose it is also true to extend that adage to say, that if a team can play not very well and draw, then it is a sign of a team which isn’t complete rubbish.
Not that United played particularly badly against Bournemouth. The possession stats were through the roof, even if most of the possession went nowhere. That is often the case, even for the best teams. More chances were created by the black and whites, more shots on target than the opposition, even if none of those chances were clear, the best chance fell to Bournemouth’s Tavernier in the first half. It was just all a bit half-hearted, predictable and under par.
Our best spell came after the half hour mark. JL hit the inside of the post, had a shot saved and Fraser had a chance tipped over the bar, all in the same period of play. Around the same time Tavernier headed wide in a rare Bournemouth attack. Still the goal which would open the game wouldn’t come. Nor would the chance that would lead to it, apart from the JL shot saved, the rest were more half-chances than good ones.
Isak tucked the penalty away and we roused ourselves for a game-winning onslaught. That never came, despite being camped in the final third of the pitch. Again, it wasn’t helped by a seventieth minute of applause for the departed monarch. These mid-match minute’s applauses either have to stop, or the game should be stopped to have them.
One glaring issue on Saturday was that JL and Willock pushed very wide and high when NUFC had the ball, which often meant that Bruno was our only midfielder. That is ok when he is on the ball, he’s a brilliant player, but it did leave the defence with less options for a pass, meant that the wide players often got in the way of the midfielders and when NUFC lost the ball, a pacey Bournemouth had the whole middle of the pitch to run into.
As for the new players, I have seen Pope before playing for Burnley but didn’t really remember him. I don’t usually remember the games against Burnley to be fair, so he isn’t the only Burnley player to be new to me. He played well enough, he watched the game with as much enthusiasm as I did.
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