GK Darryl Flahavan | Minutes on pitch: 90 | Goals Conceded: 0 | Rating: 8 | |||
As the match was nearing it’s end former Boston man, Andy Kirk found space and managed to get a shot away. However Flahavan’s flexibility once again showed to be his greatest asset as he flung across the goal to tip wide of the post. |
RB Duncan Jupp | Minutes on pitch: 90 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 6.5 |
Jupp did not have the best of games as he seemed to continuously give the ball away. Jupp also mistimed a number of tackles including to needlessly overzealous challenge that warranted him a caution. Despite this Jupp made a crucial block as Andy Kirk’s shot was heading goalwards. |
CB Spencer Prior | Minutes on pitch: 90 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 7 |
Another more than capable performance from Prior as he kept it simple in search of a win. Prior, clearly desperate to gain promotion, flung himself everywhere he could as he competed well throughout |
CB Adam Barrett | Minutes on pitch: 90 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 6.5 |
Barrett was strangely awarded with Sky Sports, ‘Powerade Man of the Match.’ Quite why, I am not sure as it was a very average performance from Barrett, however it is another personal accolade that Adam has received from this season. On the positive side Barrett made a couple of superb runs into the heart of the defence. Despite this I felt that defensively he looked challenged often by Andy Kirk and when substituted onto the field, Eric Sabin. |
LB Che Wilson | Minutes on pitch: 90 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 6 |
I was less than impressed with Che today as he was often the man who gave the ball away and broke down attacks. Wilson has proved, this season, that he a very good player and was correctly awarded with the ‘SZ most improved player of the year.’ However today he returned to the man that, last year, fitted into a side that was struggling to stay in the Football League. |
RM/LM Carl Pettefer | Minutes on pitch: 90 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 5 |
Maybe watching on television made it look worse than it normally does but Pettefer has got to be the most negative footballer I have ever seen. Sometimes he goes for the direct approach and when he does it is often effective. However it was on far too many occasions that Petts found himself passing backwards and not even attempting to beat players. This just lead to my frustration of the game being epitomised on one player, Carl Pettefer. |
CM Mark Bentley | Minutes on pitch: 90 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 7.5 |
Bentley certainly gave the team something that is needed, a driving force. Bentley was one of the few players that really committed to the cause on the day as he went in with a few crunching tackles. In fact one tackle, that he was cautioned for, he was very lucky to stay on the pitch for as he went over the top of the ball. In attack Bentley came very close to adding to his tally of six goals as he latched on to a Mark Gower cross. However, the direction of the header failed to match the power as goalkeeper, Harper gathered easily. |
CM Kevin Maher | Minutes on pitch: 90 |Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 6 |
A strangely quite performance from Captain Kev as he failed to step up to the plate in the way we know he can. Do you remember a year ago when two amazing performances from the skipper, against Colchester, saw the Blues to Cardiff? We are yet to see a repeat of this although something similar would be nice against Northampton. The actual game saw Maher deliver a couple of good set pieces although not to the effect that he has done throughout the season. |
LM Mark Gower | Minutes on pitch: 60 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 7 |
Gower is now looking a much more dangerous proposition and I was very disappointed to see him substituted after just one hour of the match. Gower had put a couple of dangerous crosses into the penalty area and he looked very sharp when in possession of the ball. |
CF Freddy Eastwood | Minutes on pitch: 86 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 1| Rating: 6 |
Eastwood had a very quite game as he was limited to just a couple of long range shots and a header that he sent wide of the goal. On the whole Freddy was kept very quite apart from one moment when he sent a super ball onto the head of Luke Guttridge. |
CF Tesfaye Bramble | Minutes on pitch: 45 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 6 |
You’ve got to feel sorry for Tes. Brought in to the side and given a chance to perform he was part of the least creative half of football I have seen for quite a while. Then after thirty five minutes, poor old Bramble pulled up with a hamstring strain and played the last ten minutes hobbling about. In fact the one time Tes did get the ball at his feet he was surging goalwards only to be pulled back by Willmott. |
RM Luke Guttridge | Minutes on pitch: 30 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 6 |
In half an hour Guttridge fought hard but to little avail as the game was closing up into nothing. However Guttridge did have a golden chance to turn the tie around when Eastwood picked his head out perfectly only to head wide of the post. |
CF Lawrie Dudfield | Minutes on pitch: 45 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 6 |
Fourty five minutes on the field and I was not that impressed with Dudfield. He had one shot that was easily gathered by Harper but on the whole Lawrie was very quite. Don’t get me wrong Dudfield was trying incredibly hard as he chased everything down but unfortunately it was not to be as he suffered another frustrating week. |
CF Wayne Gray | Minutes on pitch: 4 | Goals: 0 | Assists: 0 | Rating: 6 |
Only four minutes for Wayne and it was no where near long enough to influence the game. Gray will look train hard in the week and hope for first team selection on Saturday in the return leg. |