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Homer Thompson

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1 minute ago, Monkey Tennis said:

Wasn't there.

Were we worth it?

 

Yes. A much better performance and while Utd had the bulk of possession they never looked particularly threatening. We didnt create a huge amount but Dobbie should have scored in an almost identical position just before Lyle did and we generally looked better going forward than in recent games

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Skyline Drifter

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16 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:

Wasn't there.

Were we worth it?

 

Comfortably over 90 mins yes. Though a bit like St Mirren our best stuff was in the first half hour when we could have been three up. In the end we kind of nicked the win out of nothing late on but we were deserving of it. Zwick will be disappointed with himself on the third  should have saved it.

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stumigoo

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Comfortably over 90 mins yes. Though a bit like St Mirren our best stuff was in the first half hour when we could have been three up. In the end we kind of nicked the win out of nothing late on but we were deserving of it. Zwick will be disappointed with himself on the third  should have saved it.


Luis Zwick is just happy to be involved, I'm not so sure he will be bothered about conceding twice in half an hour.
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palmy_cammy

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8 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:

Wasn't there.

Were we worth it?

 

I'd say we were just about the better team, in what was a pretty open and evenly contested game.  Two poor defences made for an entertaining game that could easily have ended 4-2 either way or 4-4 for that matter.

It won't be any great surprise for you to hear that we didn't cover ourselves with glory for the two we conceded, first goal especially.  Incredibly though, United's defence was worse than ours!  For the first, Durnan dived in when he didn't need to which left Lyle in acres of space and able to finish from a position Dobbie couldn't just minutes before.  I think Cammy Bell will be disappointed with the second goal.  Dobbie looked like he had made a mess of it, with his touch taking him too wide.  He rather scuffed the effort and it seemed to go under Bell as well.  Perhaps it was one of those where if he'd hit it cleanly Bell would have got to it.  The third goal was a simple ball over the top that "The Edge" misread completely which let Dykes in.  He still had a lot of work to do though and it was a really good finish in the end.  Possibly questions over the 'keeper?  There usually are when they get beaten at the front post.  The fourth goal was also a complete disaster from a United viewpoint.  Dobbie did well to find Dykes, who in turn did well to head it back across goal, but I don't think there was anyone near getting to it before it hit Dixon on the shins and rolled in.

It was good to see us put in a good solid 90 minutes performance.  Too often of late we've only played well in spells, usually until we fall behind and then disappear from the game completely.  Bearing this in mind it was good to see us recover twice from the set back of United equalising.  It probably helped that after making it 1-1, United seemed happy to take that scoreline into half time.  They then started the second half quite poorly which gave us the initiative.  Had they pushed for a second before the break there is a good chance our head would have gone down and they would have sneaked the win.

Takes a lot of pressure off the Ayr game, which looking at their result today is probably a good thing.

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Sloop John B

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 Two defensively inept and mentally fragile teams meant that it was an absolute slobberknocker of a match. We played very well in the first half and we should have been a couple up really with 2 one on ones in the first 20 minutes, United were totally open meaning that it probably suited us a lot more than when we get bogged down in possession. We were totally on top and then after having a freekick literally as far away from our own goal as possible, Jacobs messes up the clearance and Mikkelsen does pretty well to finish. After that the sudden change back to previous weeks with Queens totally shitting themselves whenever the ball goes near them launching it about 30 yards in the air. Fortunately United were so slow and predictable in possession that it was fairly easy to deal with, before the goal only a very long range attempt by Telfer really posed much of a threat. Coote was the only player that looked like he had something about him and another level of pace to reach. Our second goal came fairly undeserved in the context of the match, Flood was unsurprisingly outpaced by Thomas after United had a spell of possession and after missing an easier on on chance on his better foot, Dobbie slotted it home rather comfortably when it looked like he messed it up. 

Second half we weren't under any real pressure and then we go on to chuck  yet another soft goal in, Dixon had a rather speculative effort which Robinson palmed straight into the middle of the box for Mikkelsen. I thought it dipped a little but it was straight at him really. The defence switching off didn't help either. The game kind of looked like it was fizzling out, what with Dykes being rather aimless and Murray being fairly standard youth player thrown in at the deep end kind of display. But what looked like a fairly inoffensive punt up the park by Murray was  bungled by 'The Edge'  who totally missed it and Dykes expertly shinned it in past Zwick.

United tried their 'stick Durnan up top and cause havoc' strategy that worked so well at Tannadice and even with a team that crumbles under the slightest pressure, United didn't ever look like scoring despite getting the ball back if and when they wanted. The fourth goal was sheer beautiful incompetence with Dobbie managing to keep the ball in finding Dyke who knocked it down to absolutely no one only for Dixon to blast it in under little to no pressure. On the opposition defensive calamity it is no Kevin James looping header but it was a rare moment of being able to appreciate someone else's defence being hilariously shit.

Good things happen when we play the ball down, Dom Thomas can make things happen when he has the chance , Lyle and Dobbie score most of their chance when we work it into the box, playing a big target man out wide makes teams fairly lazy by just aiming it at him rather than mixing it up. Not sure whether a team like United just offer more space to exploit but we looked very good going forwards which is frustrating when we play fairly negatively at times when we can't defend to begin with. Set pieces have been rank rotten for most of this season (Barring ref assists) and we are probably more likely to concede from our own corner than score from one.

Jacobs at right back was a concern especially as he wasn't particularly great there previously and struggled against Murray, fortunately Murray through the middle would have been a lot worse so small victories and all that.

The Edge was an absolute bombscare, was probably lucky not to get booked for the tug on the edge on the box on Thomas and i'm not entirely sure on the rules regarding lying on the ball in the penalty area but it certainly annoyed the people around me especially when Lyle got called up for it earlier on. He looked like he could barely move. Cammy Bell on one leg could probably have saved the 3rd goal and prevented the 4th goal. 

If you predicted 5 points and 9 goals including being unbeaten at Tannadice this season you would have definitely taken it, as we continue to threaten both sides of the table without coming close to actually doing anything of note. Nothing like the comforting embrace of mediocrity after a bizarre season.

 

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