by Snowflake Royal »
06 Feb 2021 22:59
Solid if uninspiring performance against a well organised and defensively strong Stoke side.
Pretty clean game. Thought the ref got most things right where he had a good view. One of the linesman was a bit dodge on occasion.
Stoke gave us no time and space to play that nice passing football, and ran a defensive line we couldn't go over, with big CBs who could rough Joao up.
A few times they gave us some difficulties with crosses etc, but never really looked that threatening most of the game IMO. Basically a game of two defences cancelling each other out.
Thought Swift started really well but faded. Olise was a bit anonymous, as was Ejaria. Rino and Laurent really struggled to get involved going forward.
A point is a good result away against a tough nut to crack like Stoke, especially with our not great recent record up there.
Can't win 'em all. On to the next one