Blues set new record – No shots on target in 90 mins
News | admin | October 30, 2011 at 12:58 pm
When Blues manage to go a whole 90 minutes without testing the visitor’s goalkeeper you can guess that this Blues fan ain’t happy. When the opposition is fresh out the third division and 9 games without a win the stats don’t suggest that Blues are the wonder team that the fans have been saying they are. Most of those fans never get out of the pub on match day and the ones that show up in Bruges rarely visit St Andrews to watch the likes of Brighton.
Neither is the Manager the miracle worker that some have been labelling him. The tactics employed today were impossible to fathom as Brighton were able to pass the ball to each other in their own penalty box with our back four 90 yards away. They were deeper than a Greek debt and when they gained possession Blues had too far to travel to put the opposition under pressure.
Having said all that Blues were simply awful and the match can be summed up thus;
There was little action in the first half………
…… and in the second there was none.
By Alan Watton
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The stats will be forever recorded inaccurately. Should anyone be perusing them 100 years from now they will indeed show that Blues had zero shots on target. However, Marlon King’s first-half shot was heading for the corner of the net but was deflected wide by contact with the calf of the trailing leg of a Brighton defender. This was unseen by the hapless Mr Mathieson and a corner should have been awarded instead of a goal kick.
The stats will be forever recorded inaccurately. Should anyone be perusing them 100 years from now they will indeed show that Blues had zero shots on target. However, Marlon King's first-half shot was heading for the corner of the net but was deflected wide by contact with the calf of the trailing leg of a Brighton defender. This was unseen by the hapless Mr Mathieson and a corner should have been awarded instead of a goal kick.
"Tactics impossible to fathom" & "manager not a miracle-worker" tells me more about the writer than he does about his understanding of this match & what Chris Hughton has to achieve with freebies & loanees. Or his he a closet Viler.
A poor performance ios what it is and after such a decent run should be taken as a bad day at work. But to dengrate probably the best Manager we've had since….well…..forever is not on. There's a Man who was given a poison Chalice which is slowly turning into the Nectar of the Gods. I Never thought for a minute we would be in the running for promotion but am really thinking again.