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Post by Andy K on Apr 17, 2019 15:32:02 GMT
3 games from the end now. After last weekend, we're playing for pretty much for as high a position as we can get, whilst Wrexham are already certain of a play off spot will be looking for a result to try and avoid that extra game.
Mathematically it's impossible for us to finish lower than 15th, and with teams playing each other very unlikely to finish any lower than 11th, which is already a great season bearing in mind the injuries we've had to deal with especially in recent weeks - I certainly can't remember a season like this.
We're not quite out of the play offs, but it would mean that we'd have to get 6 more points than Eastleigh in the last 3 games and hope Ebbsfleet flounder (or we gain 4 more points than them in the last 3 games). Both of those sides face teams in the bottom half of the table with virtually nothing to play for (as we do for our last 2 games), so the most likely scenario is the 3 of us stay in our current respective positions. Gateshead, a point behind us have a tricky trip to Harrogate to deal with on Easter Monday.
Finishing 8th would be a huge achievement.
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Post by os on Apr 17, 2019 22:41:25 GMT
I think its a free hit for the team, they can go and play with a bit of freedom. It might be slightly different for 1 or 2 of the players who maybe looking to secure a contract for next season though.
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Post by Amber Aleman on Apr 18, 2019 6:34:27 GMT
Wrexham have the best home form in the NL (it's their away form that's let them down a bit), so anything we can get from this match will be something of a bonus!
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Post by jr on Apr 18, 2019 8:11:06 GMT
Given that we're down to the bare bones, a point will be a tremendous effort. Aswad will be back and hopefully Beckwith will be fit as well.
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Post by Andy K on Apr 18, 2019 8:21:58 GMT
Wrexham of course are never know to be prolific scorers. They've only scored one more league goal than us this season. The difference is that they've conceded 18 fewer goals than we have.
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Post by Amber Aleman on Apr 19, 2019 6:43:08 GMT
Beautiful morning up here in NE Wales.☀️See some of you later! 🌝
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Post by Del on Apr 19, 2019 13:45:40 GMT
Come on Ross. Keep them out!
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Post by VCLXI on Apr 19, 2019 13:48:30 GMT
I'm not there so popped onto Flash Scores to check out the line-up. Deacon is playing as a centre back according to them.
Enjoy the game everyone who went, let's hope for three points.
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Post by Amber Aleman on Apr 19, 2019 19:36:50 GMT
Lost 1-0. We started with the same back four as against Orient, with Aswad coming on as a second half sub.
Wrexham offered even less of a goal threat than the league leaders had, most of their efforts wafted or headed wide. There were no gifts handed out this afternoon, the game's only goal coming when we couldn't clear a corner and the ball was looped back over our defence.
Our main threat came from Touré, who had some joy running at their defence, but didn't manage to trouble the home keeper. The Sutton players worked hard again to disrupt their opponents' rhythm, but did seem to tire in the heat during the final twenty minutes, which was when the goal came.
With Gateshead winning, we slip a place to 10th. We can't now finish any lower than 11th, and a point from Monday's match would guarantee a top ten finish.
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Post by os on Apr 19, 2019 20:02:37 GMT
The reason these top sides are struggling to create against us is simply because we have discovered a league winning defence combination, got to say it Craig is a bloody good central defender, with Roarie doing a sterling job. Beauts is working his socks off in the middle, but we are just short where it matters.
Bairdy is right to be positive about both performances, but the fact is we don't look like scoring if we played for a week. If only Tommy Wright had been fit, we would be comfortably in the playoffs.
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Post by garethl on Apr 19, 2019 21:09:54 GMT
League winning defensive combo! Calm down!!
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Post by markf on Apr 21, 2019 13:37:47 GMT
A belated entry from me for U's final excursion beyond the realms of civilisation that we call the Home Counties, although Wealdstone looked pretty dead at just after 8am on a Good Friday morning.
Still, the train went on time (got back on time too) and the tube ran efficiently, the climate change protesters must have run out of super glue (is that stuff eco-friendly?).
Wrexham on a sunny afternoon wasn't too bad and the old-fashioned Wrexham General station a gem for those who like that sort of thing.
The match was played at a decent pace with little of the frantic football often associated with the NL and both sides tried to keep the ball on the deck and on a big pitch there was plenty of space to do so. I thought we did ok against a team who will surely need to improve up front if their ambition of the EFL is to be realised in early May. Most of their first half efforts were wide of the target with Ross W's most anxious moment being an early collision as he took the ball from a through pass.
U's tried to construct moves forward but one of the meanest defences in the NL were resolute and as it took an hour for the ref, yet another NL homer, to give U's a free-kick in Wrexham's half, set piece opportunities were at a premium. And so it was from a corner that the home side netted the only goal and their only real decent effort on goal throughout such was Sutton's dogged defensive work.
A decent effort once again from the lads but the same old issues up front; plenty of effort frustrated by some unfortunate decision making.
The Wrexham forum is another full of the deluded; you have to wonder what some are watching. They criticised U's players for going down with head injuries meaning they must have been as myopic as the ref who missed a fair few. One in particular, captured brilliantly by Paul L, had their skipper leading with his arm across Ross W's chin. Ref didn't give a free-kick but went and had a word with the home captain suggesting that he hadn't seen what happened but knew something had. But then he failed to give U's three nailed on free-kicks in the Wrexham half in the first period and got dog's abuse from the more vocal of the 70 odd Sutton fans in attendance.
Only the one yellow though and no argument with that particular award. It was a "clean" contest as far as NL football goes so one wonders why the home fans got so uptight at times.
As ever, outside after all was fine and dandy though as has been the case on every visit plus the fact that those stewards responsible for the away fans just let you get on with it and are a friendly, helpful lot, other than the result and the ref, visits to what was once known as The Race Course Ground are not a bad experience.
Relegated Maidstone next and it would be nice to end the home programme with a win.
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