Stoke's Goal

[victorturner]

2 hours ago, WL_Owl_JC said:

The thing this outlined for me was compsure. How composed the Stoke player's finish was. We panic. We would have probably leathered the ball over the bar in a similar position. Röhl needs to work on our team's composure in front of goal.

It was a very good goal, enabled by poor defensive play involving about four of our defenders.

[prowl]

Look at the move properly. It was very slick passing and a very good finish.

 

Sometimes the opposition do something right rather than our players all being in the wrong.  With every goal ever scored you could point the finger at someone on the defence, long distance shot to the top corner, someone should have closed him down, keeper could have been in a better position.

Cross and header, should have stopped the cross, keeper should have taken it, defender should have got his head on it. There's always the possibility of the defence stopping it at somestage if you are picky enough.

 

OK I'm stretching things a bit too far but you get the idea. It wasn't just us doing something wrong, they did something right. Annoying though.

 

[hopevalleyowl]

It was the dummy that caused havoc, and for a split second made everyone panic. 
 

Easy to say from the sidelines and in hindsight but it just needed one to go to the ball and another (RB?) to drop off and we would probably have been okay