I don't deny the other stuff he does in a game, I have consistently praised his pressing, defensive play and everything else that makes up that side of the game.
When you look at the attacking side of his game, I praised him a few games back for the assist he got in the cup for Inoussa and the balls he was putting into the box where he was a real danger.
But tonight? He was involved in at least half a dozen high quality opportunities where he could drive at a full back, go outside them and put in a ball across the box or cut inside and look for a shooting opportunity or chance to play a reverse pass in for a runner.
And he made the wrong decision / got the execution wrong every single time.
In the first half he had the ball on the edge of the box and blazed a shot high and wide when the pass was on for an overlapping runner. He had another opportunity when he was in behind the defender, he put in a shot which was on target and the keeper saved however instead of such a shot being hard and low it was at the perfect height for the keeper to get a hand to it. He had a third opportunity where he had drawn two defenders to him, Franco and Widell were unmarked at the D on the edge of the box and instead of the easy pass for one of them to hit it first time he tried to take them on and over runs it to go out for a goal kick.
And I haven't even touched on his opportunities in the second half.
That isn't confirmation bias.
. But I'll take what I'm seeing under Matos over anything I saw under Williams, Martin, Sheehan and Duff. We might not always get it right, but it's more entertaining.
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