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There were a lot of positives for me in this game, for example the obvious improvement in Sotirio's game (except his final touches, not counting his goal of course), and the overall good performance from Devlin who came on for Rufer in the period of WSW domination. Others mentioned Marinovic and Davila, and there is no need for me to repeat it. These blokes are excellent in every game now.

I was however disappointed in seeing Ball not getting service from Piscopo on several occasions when the obvious movement would be for the ball to be fed into the right hand side channel (and Ball was actually looking for it).  Piscopo opting out to go through the middle and losing the ball made me want to throw empty beer cans at my TV.

Cacace was shut out very effectively by WSW and their raids in the first half showed up his limitation when crowded out by several players as he was often unable to play out.  Their plan of targeting just a few key Nix players was well planned and should have seen them sew up a 2:0 or 3:0 result in the first 30 minutes.

My question to those better at reading the game than me is - what did Babbel do to screw up the second half?  Was it the apparent change to three at the back? Or was it something Talay did at half time?  What happened in that crucial period of twenty five minutes between Sotirio's goal and the substitution with McCowatt coming on?  Because although WSW equalised during that period, it was also clearl that we were playing way better during that period?

There were a lot of positives for me in this game, for example the obvious improvement in Sotirio's game (except his final touches, not counting his goal of course), and the overall good performance from Devlin who came on for Rufer in the period of WSW domination. Others mentioned Marinovic and Davila, and there is no need for me to repeat it. These blokes are excellent in every game now.

I was however disappointed in seeing Ball not getting service from Piscopo on several occasions when the obvious movement would be for the ball to be fed into the right hand side channel (and Ball was actually looking for it).  Piscopo opting out to go through the middle and losing the ball made me want to throw empty beer cans at my TV.

Cacace was shut out very effectively by WSW and their raids in the first half showed up his limitation when crowded out by several players as he was often unable to play out.  Their plan of targeting just a few key players should have seen them sew up the result in the first 30 minutes.

My question to those better at reading the game than me is - what did Babbel do to screw up the second half?  Was it the apparent change to three at the back? Or was it something Talay did at half time?  What happened in that crucial period of twenty five minutes between Sotirio's goal and the substitution with McCowatt coming on?  Because although WSW equalised during that period, it was also clearl that we were playing way better during that period?

There were a lot of positives for me in this game, for example the gradual improvement in Sotirio's game (except his final touches, not counting his goal of course), and the overall good control from Devlin who had to come in for Rufer in the period of WSW domination. Others mentioned Marinovic and Davila, but these blokes are excellent in ever game now.

I was however disappointed in seeing Ball not getting service from Piscopo on several occasions when the obvious movement would be for the ball to be fed into the right hand side channel (and Ball was actually looking for it).  Piscopo opting out to go through the middle and losing the ball made me want to throw empty beer cans at my TV.

Cacace was shut out very effectively by WSW and their raids in the first half showed up his limitation when crowded out by several players as he was often unable to play out.  Their plan of targeting just a few key players should have seen them sew up the result in the first 30 minutes.

My question to those better at reading the game than me is - what did Babbel do to screw up the second half?  Was it the apparent change to three at the back? Or was it something Talay did at half time?  What happened in that crucial period of twenty five minutes between Sotirio's goal and the substitution with McCowatt coming on?  Because although WSW equalised during that period, it was also clearl that we were playing way better during that period?