Better late than never!

It was always going to be a tough ask on Saturday against a team flying high in the National League. Granted they didn't start with the game with their strongest team but they are full time professionals and were clearly keen to make an impression and try and get a place in the starting XI. They were much quicker out of the blocks and caused us a few headaches from set pieces which we normally deal with better. When you are stuck in one corner of the ground and have the defence in front of you for one half and the attack for the other half then you see a very different games than most weeks. I couldn't work out if we were trying to play offside and/or with a high line but, whatever it was, it wasn't working well. The goal we gave away was soft - I am sure Wilks thinks he could have done better but he has saved us on more than a few occasions this season - besides the cross should have been stopped at source in the first place. I actually felt 0-1 flattered us at half time and we had a chance to put things right in the second half.

However that all went out of the window when they scored two in the opening 10 minutes of the second half. MG alluded to a push at the corner for the second goal but, whether there was or wasn't, it was still a very soft goal to concede. The third was well taken but again might have been down to some average defending on our part..?? Credit our lads for keeping going but that may have had as much to do with Yeovil taking their foot off the pedal as anything else. We created a few bits in the second half mostly after Widdrington was introduced. Some of our better performances this season have been with him as an extra midfielder and/or playing off the front man and we looked far better for it. Agyemang and Dymond are honest players but were getting the run around as a two man pairing in the centre. Nice to see one of our centre backs score from a set piece and I hope that is the first of many as we should be a far bigger threat from set plays. Had Ming scored as we went into injury time then it could have been squeaky bum time but we were well beaten on the day in all honesty.

Now we enter a run of five league games in two weeks and we need to be picking some points up or else we will be looking over our shoulders in the New Year. MG has now brought in a couple more forward options (although I assume there will have to be some in the out tray sooner rather than later to balance these signings) I will be very interesting to see who gets the nod on Saturday and if we persist with the same formation. I am not convinced that Henry & Co up front are the solution to all our problems but I am more than happy to be proved wrong! Wealdstone is obviously a very tough game on paper but we won there last season with a threadbare team and won well and we should have taken at least a point of them at PVR earlier in the season when they were flying.

Up the Wings!