Ref was singularly mediocre second half; first half had me reaching for the swearwords. (Not something which is all that common.) I gave him a 3 overall.
Great defensive performance and Howard showing good GK skills.
Sadly, all the wonderful hard graft on the other parts of the pitch was cancelled out by some truly dreadful retention of the ball. Can’t blame the pitch for that – they kept the ball far better than we did.
We deserved to score one goal – which we did.
They deserved to score zilch which they did.
3 points to us? – Fair result.
