Edau paru Newport   (Newport Match thread)

Quoted from ginnywings

They have won 2 games in the last 11, both against us.

Never a better chance for three points and we blow it yet again. How hard is it to put together 11 players that can win a game of football every now and again?

The only thing this club is any good at is long winless runs. How many of 10 games or more have we had over the seasons? I've lost count.

This.
Usual excuses:
No luck,dodgy pitch,referee, etc etc.
Played against 10 men for 53m & couldn't score.

My frustrations where the amount of sideways passing 10 minutes from the end when we're 1-0 down. Add to that still 4 at the back when we have 5 mins of injury time, we should have stuck Waterfall up front.

We where better overall at least they looked bothered and worked hard, will we have enough? Not sure but I can't see us down with a whimper at least.      

I know our pitch is really poor this season but surely Newport should be made to do something with theirs? Season after season it's a disgrace, maybe the answer is to allow 5G pitches in L2.  

We should have been hoofing that ball forward at every opportunity in the last ten or 15 , we had nothing to lose but we couldn’t help fannying about with sideways passes

Quoted from Stadium

Oh dear.
Ridiculous comment.
Playing against ten men for 53m & its down to "luck"

I think your trying to be controversial.  

i know we lost, but i must admit that we played the best we have all season. I saw purpose in the game, and considering the new lads havent had much time to gel, we showed promise. That end ball is still eluding us, and no clear chances, but for once i enjoyed the game. 74% of the action shows we are improving, and we just need the breaks. A few too many passes still, but with them going down to 10 men, they closed the doors on us, fair play to them. You cant say there was no passion, the lads played well, and showed desire. We deserved something from the game, but that last ball never materialised, too many high crosses for their keeper to collect. Its going to be down to the wire, but there is hope from what ive witnessed today. No need to be negative lads, yes we lost again, but there is improvement today.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

February always going to be tough.
Newport are 3rd we are 23rd.

We lost 1-0 away get over it.
Signs of improvement and 19 games to go.

Whilst some players may be better quality than what we had, sadly it was the same old story, concede to a defensive error and fail to score, so no improvement on that.

No need to be so negative as the improvements were clear to see. If it had stayed 11v11 it would have suited us much better as they sneaked a goal and then shut up shop. I know we’re running out of games but at least we have clear improvement so therefore some chance.

Hollow heads voodoo Mrs at play giving us a curse haha.  We can do it from from what I've heard first 45mins if we scored during that I think we win.  Just got to keep believing.

Nah we played better against Cheltenham and Leyton Orient - games where we actually managed to muster something resembling a goalscoring threat. Knocking a ball around on the edge of the area when the opposition is content to sit deep and defend with 10 men isn't something to get excited about.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Second week in a row that we deserved something. Trouble is we’re running out of weeks.

Disagree. We played well for 45 mins...managed a couple of attempts on goal in that time.  Then faded badly against 10 men , hardly troubled their goal second half, 1 chance for Payne smothered, other than that we looked very poor against the 10 man wall, clueless as to how to break it down.

Last week, similar , looked better but hardly registered a decent shot/ chance.

One thing for sure , last week we restricted the opposition to minimal chances but they took both, this week they had maybe two chances and took one...we just dont take the minimal chances we create.