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Much better performance.  Shaky defensively at times in the first half with  quite a number of unforced errors.
we pretty much dominated the 2nd half and looked much more ourselves until Luke Haines got turned just outside his area and lunged... the red presumably justified on the basis of deliberately preventing a clear chance on goal ( which it was I think). Final 10 minutes or so were frantic and we didn't manage them terribly well.... needing a bit more calmness  and ability to slow the game down. Really important 3 points... and once again, a game that showed up our strengths but also some of our weaknesses.  On this evidence, Ollie Bray is going to b e a crucial player for us.  He caused all sorts of trouble with his pace and skill. BRE also gives much-needed  extra solidity to the defence, although a bit like AAH he obviously needs careful looking after to keep him injury-free.

For me, the red seemed very harsh. Ref was so quick to want to send him off, that he didn't take a moment to see how many covering bodies we had back in the box. Made the final minutes more uncomfortable than they needed to be.

On the whole, a decent performance. Their keeper pulled off some handy saves to keep them in sight of us. Build on this now.

Lostforwords wrote:

Just seen the highlights and that was never a goal scoring opportunity - it was out wide and there were several other defenders behind the ball. Had he already been booked?

Nope, was a straight red. Baffling.