The vs Cambridge match thread.

Wycombe down 3-0 at home to Morcambe at the half. Crawley, Luton and Swindon also losing. Come on Stanley
 
superb results at the top.... the power is ever more firmly in our hands.

couldn't be there today. Match report anyone?
 
I had to miss the match today :(but I was kept up to date by my daughter.:jimbo:
Sounds like Jackson did well in scoring his goal to earn a valuable three points:jimbo::mosher::thepint::thepint::thepint:
 
That's a game we would have lost in the past. Rode our luck at times nearly gifted them a goal (well done Chappy) and a header against the bar. However that said on another day we'd have been three up in 15 minutes.
It going to be topsy turvy right down to the wire so strap yourselves in.
Bound to be shocks along the way but I'm quietly confident.
Lads were all saying pitch was really a difficult surface today.
 
Predicted this would be a close run thing - and so it proved!
Stanley started well but Cambridge soon got a grip on the midfield & we resorted to too many aimless high balls out of defence, particularly first half.
As most of their team were giants compared to our lads, the ball just kept coming back.
Chappers pulled-off some brilliant saves to keep the scoreline blank at half-time.
Second half we became much more effective with some slick passing & wing-play.
Time & again we got behind their defence & put dangerous crosses into the box.
Unfortunately, our forwards were never in the right place at the right time.
Then we got a lucky break! Jackson chased a high ball into the box & right in front of the Clayton End, clearly fouled his marker to gain the advantage he needed to score the vital goal.
I say lucky break, because neither ref nor linesman spotted it & despite the protestations of the whole Cambridge team, the goal stood - PHEW!!!!!
Kayden got the 'mom.' award, but once again our defence were the heroes, particularly Dunne, who imho was outstanding.
Looking forward to watching the tv highlights tonight - not for Stanley's close run victory, but Morecambe's amazing demolition of our most dangerous rivals - Wycombe.
All hail the mighty Shrimps!
 
Funny how people see games in different ways. Dunne did ok for me - but not outstanding. Needs to work on his distribution. Nearly gave the game away with a sloppy pass allowing Ikoeazu through one on one.
 
Twenty Eight said:
Funny how people see games in different ways. Dunne did ok for me - but not outstanding. Needs to work on his distribution. Nearly gave the game away with a sloppy pass allowing Ikoeazu through one on one.
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Bit unfair to criticise Dunne for poor distribution.
Agree that pass was a major blunder by him, but he wasn't the only one passing to our opponents.
Brown, Kee & Conneely were guilty on more than one occasion of badly misplaced passes.
Apart from that one mistake by Dunne, I thought he coped well with their enormous forwards, made numerous defensive headers & last ditch tackles to prevent goal attempts.
 
Basically, we were on top for first 5 - 10 minutes, Cambridge then got a foothold & were dangerous for rest of first half.
Second half, we were a different prospect - played our passing game & Kayden took his goal well to make it 1 nil as we deserved.
Referee - not biased either way, just a little inept - loved his whistle!
Not pretty, but a win's a win & given other results a damned important one - band in clubhouse were brilliant, book 'em now for last home game please :)
 
I have to agree Dunne was not his usual best, I thought Coneely should have been subbed in the second half as he was a little jaded due to his injury recovery. He did well. Billy was a little out of sorts so two substitutions would have made a big difference imo. The MOM for me was The Don or chappers. Hayden scored and ran himself ragged. Our passing was poor at times. It was an ugly win that in fairness we got away with. However we will take it.
 
The difference recently is our game management. When we are leading with 20 minutes to go we seem to be able keep are opponents at arms length. Things like playing balls into opposition corners. Alot of the games are tight like today (in fact I would say Cambridge would feel they had the better chances). In previous years we looked like conceding goals late on and did . There have been a lot of games like this this season where I feel it could have gone either way till we scored but we have managed the game well to get the win.
I agree with other web contributors, we played too many high balls today which didn't suit us playing against a physically bigger side. Our central midfield seems to lose out regularly but I accept the trade of for winning games!

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Lord Stiffupperlip said:
Bit unfair to criticise Dunne for poor distribution.
Agree that pass was a major blunder by him, but he wasn't the only one passing to our opponents.
Brown, Kee & Conneely were guilty on more than one occasion of badly misplaced passes.
Apart from that one mistake by Dunne, I thought he coped well with their enormous forwards, made numerous defensive headers & last ditch tackles to prevent goal attempts

It was a major blunder .... and had it not been for Chappie a game changer.
So to call him outstanding ....... not for me. They had one enormous forward and second half he moved over to Janoi ....... who coped just as well as Dunne.
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