08-12-2023, 10:41 AM
Two excellent sides for this level so I'm hoping that the game itself reflects the quality in both teams.
Really couldn't predict a scoreline - depends on who turns up on the night.
From a BWFC perspective, we've been a joy to watch recently and in our last game broke our record for goals scored in a calendar year - which surprised me as for a long time we were a possession based team with a lot of the possession across the back and not enough penetration up top - but more recently we've scored a load with goals being spread throughout the squad.
For a long time we played patches of quality build up without an end product - great to watch but frustrating as hell. We couldn't buy a goal from a set piece and so the manager said he'd pay money out of his own pocket into the Xmas fund and incredibly set piece goals started to arrive - should be a helluva Xmas party and Evatt will be skint the way it's going.
Strikers aren't that prolific - Charles and Adeboyejo both have a massive work rate and usually spend the first hour chasing down everything that moves which tends to take them away from goal, but they do work the defence. Often as not Evatt brings on fresh strikers on the hour as they're knackered and for the most part this has been Bodvarsson (class but not the biggest engine) and Nlundulu (big engine but only just starting to show a bit of quality - however he picked up an injury last game and might not be available) Jerome is another cameo player but is basically training up to be a coach and isn't the player he once was.
Midfield will be interesting as we have decent players with different qualities - I imagine there will be loads of video analysis going on this week for Evatt to decide who to start , but I'd be surprised if he goes for a defensive set up.
We're likely to go 352 with 2 WBs and any 3 from 5 between them.
We do have the occasional disaster of a game as we play high risk footie but hopefully the game won't be decided on mistakes or a dodgy ref - I'd just like us to put in the type of performance we're capable of as it's a thing of beauty when we get it right. But who knows? TBH anything could happen.
Really couldn't predict a scoreline - depends on who turns up on the night.
From a BWFC perspective, we've been a joy to watch recently and in our last game broke our record for goals scored in a calendar year - which surprised me as for a long time we were a possession based team with a lot of the possession across the back and not enough penetration up top - but more recently we've scored a load with goals being spread throughout the squad.
For a long time we played patches of quality build up without an end product - great to watch but frustrating as hell. We couldn't buy a goal from a set piece and so the manager said he'd pay money out of his own pocket into the Xmas fund and incredibly set piece goals started to arrive - should be a helluva Xmas party and Evatt will be skint the way it's going.
Strikers aren't that prolific - Charles and Adeboyejo both have a massive work rate and usually spend the first hour chasing down everything that moves which tends to take them away from goal, but they do work the defence. Often as not Evatt brings on fresh strikers on the hour as they're knackered and for the most part this has been Bodvarsson (class but not the biggest engine) and Nlundulu (big engine but only just starting to show a bit of quality - however he picked up an injury last game and might not be available) Jerome is another cameo player but is basically training up to be a coach and isn't the player he once was.
Midfield will be interesting as we have decent players with different qualities - I imagine there will be loads of video analysis going on this week for Evatt to decide who to start , but I'd be surprised if he goes for a defensive set up.
We're likely to go 352 with 2 WBs and any 3 from 5 between them.
We do have the occasional disaster of a game as we play high risk footie but hopefully the game won't be decided on mistakes or a dodgy ref - I'd just like us to put in the type of performance we're capable of as it's a thing of beauty when we get it right. But who knows? TBH anything could happen.