Watched it on stream Awaywego and I would say it was different to most of our away performances this season.
That was more down to Blyth than ourselves. They deliberately stood off us and kept a rigid defensive shape. We were allowed to pass at will across the back four and pretty much across the midfield with them thinking we would be ponderous and lack creativity in those areas. They got that right.
We did create and squander a few chances and had a perfectly good goal disallowed and if we had scored earlier we would probably have won comfortably against what was a fairly poor side.
As it was we scored late and then did the Iron speciality of sitting back and “managing” the game. Roughly translated this means surrendering the initiative until we make schoolboy errors to hand them a goal. This time Wilson and Fitzsimons managed to drop a clanger each in the same move.
If we had played with any pace and purpose we would surely have scored 4 or 5. Butterfield doesn’t half look good when he doesn’t play.
