Women's Team - 2019/2020

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Nelly's Left Foot said:
Fair to a point. We certainly didn't play that well but Ellen White did what she is best at and took her 2 goals superbly , especially the 2nd. Part of the problem was that Utd pressed high and we still persisted in playing round the back even though it's a real weakness of the team imo. Not one of the back 4 is comfortable in tight situations when pressed and the rest of the team aren't great at moving into good positions receive the ball.
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Just said exactly that to my missus, anyone who watched us today should do what they did, we'd lose more than we'd win, but I think the likes of Chelsea and Arsenal also like to "play" so don't do it. Despite our poor performance, we were still the only team playing football, and deserved to win.

I thought united were equally poor in attack, their only threat seemed to be from the corner onto the keeper. Whether their "ghost goal" (bbc) should have counted, the other one shouldn't as it was a foul for me, as was the "tackle" on Hemp at the end, couldn't believe the referee didn't give either as fouls.
 
I wonder if Matilde Fidalgo is happy Cushing is going ?
Wonder what she is thinking watching Cushing play forwards in your precision before you ?
Also Lee Geum-min wonder if she will get a chance now too ?
 
cleavers said:
I've watched quite a lot of women's games this season, and that was one of the worst, 2-3 might make it sound exciting, but it was anything but, overall a very poor standard of play from both sides. We can and do play some good football, but not today, I said earlier in the thread it was probably our worst performance of the season, especially Steph Horton, who was very poor for me.

The rags had nothing other than a bit of bite in the tackle, despite the bigging up from the commentator.
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Houghton, sorry to be a pedant ;o)
 
kev20971 said:
I wonder if Matilde Fidalgo is happy Cushing is going ?
Wonder what she is thinking watching Cushing play forwards in your precision before you ?
Also Lee Geum-min wonder if she will get a chance now too ?
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Wondered the same. Although to be fair Janine has been superb. Decent defensively and quite special attacking. Georgia has done ok and put in great efforts but clearly struggling defensively for me and not yet that good attacking. So yes I wonder what Fidalgo has been thinking and I think she only has a 1 year contract.

Lee's situation is weird for me as she lookes to have great potential but Nick doesnt play her. Really surprised. Doubt she will get involved in the next 2 games either but hopefully we will see her much more before the end of the season.
 
kev20971 said:
I wonder if Matilde Fidalgo is happy Cushing is going ?
Wonder what she is thinking watching Cushing play forwards in your precision before you ?
Also Lee Geum-min wonder if she will get a chance now too ?
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Yeah, I'm disappointed these two haven't featured more.

Lee Geum-min, especially as I think she's super talented and more inventive than Hemp on the left.
 
Bigga said:
Yeah, I'm disappointed these two haven't featured more.

Lee Geum-min, especially as I think she's super talented and more inventive than Hemp on the left.
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To be fair I think Hemp as been great down the left , but don't understand why Lee Geum-min doesn't get a chance, no disrespect to Cushing but it seems like he doesn't like foreign players to much, surely Pauline Bremer should be first name on the team sheet if fit , top scorer at the moment. Laura Coombs is getting game time after a long lay off with injuries , but not really seen her do anything special when she comes on. Also don't know why he signed Matilde Fidalgo as a right back then play forwards there , at least Janine Beakie is a wide player , Georgia Stanway more a central attacking player !
 
Bigga said:
Maybe, but that James girl has a hammer for a left foot!

Wouldn't mind if she defected here!

She'd become world class working with us!
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Also put in a bid for their manager (Casey Stoney) too , that would put the cat among the pigeons lol
 
Nelly's Left Foot said:
Fair to a point. We certainly didn't play that well but Ellen White did what she is best at and took her 2 goals superbly , especially the 2nd. Part of the problem was that Utd pressed high and we still persisted in playing round the back even though it's a real weakness of the team imo. Not one of the back 4 is comfortable in tight situations when pressed and the rest of the team aren't great at moving into good positions receive the ball.

Kiera can usually cope in front of the back 4 as she has a decent touch and good composure but the rest are disasters waiting to happen. And happen they did but fortunately Utd weren't good enough to benefit.

Couldn't tell on TV but it felt like the ball crossed the line which would have made it 2.2 and I would have feared the worst but I am sure looking at the papers in the morning ( which I won't be) and the result will show as city beating Utd away in the FA Cup. Happy days
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The ball didn’t cross the line. I had an excellent view and there was no pace on it so could clearly see that it was about 3/4 of the ball that was beyond the line.
 
Managed to catch the last 10 minutes on the BBC red button today. Had to laugh at the obvious bias of the commentator and side-kick, they were absolutely gutted their team didn’t get the equaliser. Maybe it was MUTV’e feed?
 
Looking at the highlights for their disputed goal the biggest problem was the starting position of the back line which was on the penalty spot. By the time Steph tried to head it she was inside the six yard box where arguably a bigger and more experienced keeper would have come for it. Start on the 18 yard box and keeper has an easy catch with nobody near her. Maybe new manager will sort this side of the game out
 
cleavers said:
It was Alistair Mann, and he's a blue believe it or not.
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I think he bent over backwards to come over as a BBC unbiased commentator and might just have tipped the balance. He can't have been as bad as the guy who was writing the text of the BBC website commentary. Clear as bloody day that he must have an ST at Leigh Sports Village.
 
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