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“Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”
Andy Grove.We are less than the sum of our parts.
With our budget, squad, player wages, stadium (maybe it should be more ‘intimidating’ for teams to come and play at GP) and level of support – we should be dominating this league.
2-0 (four occasions) is our must frequent score.
1-0 and 1-1 are joint second most frequent on three occasions.
For me, we don’t kill games off.
In 18 of our 26 games, we’ve either won or lost by no more than 2 goals or drawn on 18 occasions from 26 games.
70% of our games are tight, nervy affairs… where so far, we have managed to win more than we’ve lost.
Of those 18 tight games (scorelines with a differential of +|- 2 goals) here’s our performance:
P18 W9 D6 L3 Pts 33 Potential Pts 54
Of those six drawn games:
Scun 1-1 P Sports (0-0 HT) – we conceded 81st min equaliser.
Alfreton 2-2 Scun (1-2 HT) – Scales off in 6th min. Conceded 55th min equaliser.
Led twice in game.
Ten men for nearly an entire game!Chorley 1-1 Scun (0-1 HT) – conceded 47 min equaliser.
Boston 1-1 Scun (0-0 HT) – conceded 85th min equaliser.
Buxton 0-0 Scun
Scun 2-2 Boston (2-1 HT) – conceded 90+1 min equaliser.
Led twice in game.On average we score our first goal in the 31st minute (home & away)
On average we concede our first goal in the 45th minute.
At Home, on average we concede in the 49th minute.
Away, on average we concede in the 42 minute.
We seem very vulnerable 5 minutes before and after half time and in the last 10 minutes of games.
3 of those 5 drawn games listed above have seen equalisers scored in the 80th minute plus.“A little reconnaissance is butter than being ambushed”
Officer Crabtree; Allo Allo.
Another 2-0 score line.
Sadly, correctly predicted by myself.
In another thread, I said that Hall needed shackling. Couldn’t manage it could we Jimbob.
The goals we conceded arrived with the punctuality of Deutsche Bahn AG, the German railway network.
Brackley Town 2-0 Scunthorpe
Gudger (47′)
Hall (50′)
It wasn’t unexpected, I’d previously highlighted our defensive deficiencies and susceptibility to concede goals five minutes either side of half time. Brackley exposed our weakness.
What’s that old saying – ‘charity begins at home’
Our ‘analyst’ needs to forget about what the opposition may do and put our players, performances, stats and data under the microscope.
A correct score, a named scorer and correctly predicted times of when we would concede – the info was served on a plate.
I’ll come and play RCB for us next week – show them how to do it!
UTI.