Following Saturday’s 2-1 win away at Crewe Alexandra in the First Round of the League Cup, I asked our members what three things they learned from the match.
Here’s what sedgleyimp said:
1. We are still a team in transition. It was an excellent win. It was a good team performance. Everyone did their job very well for the 90 minutes. Not everything came off though. Some decent pieces of play were undone by some players not being quite on the same wavelength as others. Little give and go’s weren’t quite read. The fact that we won and played well whilst it often didn’t quite click is a promising sign for the future.
2. Adaptability will be important. We had a very young team, especially in defence. That defence has a central midfielder playing at right-back and a central defender playing at left-back. Neither let the team down and both contributed to the improved second-half performance. In players such as Bradley and Roughan, we have adaptable young players who will be essential if injuries and suspensions start to bite as the season progresses.
3. Home advantage means nothing in an empty stadium. If you are losing at home 2-1 it used to be the case that thanks to home supporters raising the roof, the home teams performance become that little more intense and often an equaliser will come. Yesterday that extra bit of intensity seemed to be lacking from Crewe’s game after our second goal. There might be other reasons for their lack of that extra 10%, Crewe have played quite a number of pre-season games so perhaps that little bit of tiredness played its part. It just seemed to me that home teams previous advantage just might be considerably less when you don’t have any supporters. The real tester for that for us will be next Saturday when we host Oxford.
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Thank you to Graham Burrell and Lincoln City Football Club for the photograph!
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