Bit miffed at some of the comments tonight. Wycombe came to us with a game plan & it almost worked but we dug out a excellent win tonight, a performance that will see us through this season. It was also a very good learning curve for us, we're going to face tougher sides than Wycombe(upmost respect) And we can compete, tonight proved it. Brilliant you Reds
I can't imagine that we'll face any other side in this league who play like Wycombe, so if you call "tough" having to deal with big up and unders, then you're right. But other teams don't play like that. In our division. We'll face far better teams week in week out, and playing Wycombe will have taught us nothing about how to play against them. What worries me is that we're half way towards playing like Wycombe do. Without the players to do so.
Only two things to take from the game, three vital points and Callum’s goal. Otherwise a forgettable evening
The positive is we won. We're learning to win ugly. It's a quality we need to gain, so it's definitely progress. The negative for me is that VI thought the best way to do it was by being even more direct than we've been in other games recently. I can understand being really direct against stronger sides, but we basically played Wycombe at their own game tonight and banked on having a bit more quality than them. Whilst that worked, I think it did our side an injustice, because I think we have far more quality than them, and could have beaten them far more comfortably had we sought to control the game instead. If we're gonna play this way, we need forwards more suited to doing it. January will be telling.
Blackburn apart no one's beaten them 3 or 4 nil so I'm not sure we should expect to be beating them comfortably. The result was all that mattered tonight
I've phrased that badly. By 'comfortably,' I don't necessarily mean by more goals, but by having more control of the game. I agree the result is what mattered, and I give credit to the manager and team for getting it, I just wonder if it could have been achieved better by at least trying to play a more controlled game.
On reflection and considering ‘the bigger picture’ Wycombe shouldn’t have been awarded that penalty which would have made the second half a lot more comfortable for us after we got the second.
