The absolute epitome of a strong performance away from home. Game plan executed from whistle to whistle. The first half was a real showing from Chippenham, pressing football to get the goal and head toward the second half in the ascendancy. 

The second half showed a different side to our game and managers tactics. Pressure came from Chelmsford as you would expect and we had to defend well against the squeeze and in particular I thought Hamilton and Greenslade were immaculate today. Parselle as ever totally dependable and didn't lose a single battle and Eddie threw himself in front of everything required and some very important clearances up the line into the danger zone for Ash to hit. 

Cannot really remember Will having much to do and that's a real testament to the defending and clever changes from the bench to introduce Russe and Zebroski for Mann and Stearn. It gave us a real resilience to our game and looked likely to hold out for the 1-0 until a classic counter attacking move from an away side absorbing pressure. A good ball that Bray wouldn't give up and pressed Worgan, took the ball and then I felt the chance was gone when he clipped into Ash and the defender appeared to recover, but he was clever enough not to panic, turned onto his left and slotted the ball past the defender on the line for 2-0 and a very welcome away win for the Bluebirds. 

That's now 4 points in 2 games against Oxford and Chelmsford respectively and Mike's point about losing games to those that are playoff contenders and the importance of picking up points outside of those games looks spot on. I think he got everything right tactically today and we move now to a game at home on Tuesday against Slough who themselves are having an indifferent season and as we all remember from last season, will come to play football, we will need to be at our best again. Then a chance for revenge on Saturday for the fortunate FA Cup victory by Concord when they land at the Park for our first league meeting this season. 

I feel 6 points should be the target here however, I wouldn't be devastated coming out with 4. Let's raise a glass tonight and continue counting those minutes until we are back able to celebrate these moments with our team. Well done everyone.. BLUE ARMY!! 

Last edited by TheVoice (23/11/2020 12:16 AM)

For me this result was expected, our form has been ok where as Chelmsford’s has been poor at home, we needed a win after poor results, with Slough and Concord who are both struggling November could end very well. 

Great result away from home.
Our friends down the A4 pressing the panic button with another couple of loanees, in what is a very unsettled side...Covid not helping them out much either.