dtp, on 17 November 2019 - 08:26 PM, said:
Denton's a big lad playing a grown man's game and at his age he should have learned to deal with close attention. The problem is that he is so immobile he makes it easy for a defender to bully him as it's not as if they don't know where he is going to be.
Your statement about when the midfield push forward, as in the second half, it leaves us wide open at the back wasn't proved yesterday in my opinion. They were on the rack because we were pushing forward, Jalal hadn't had a save to make, and if it hadn't been for some inexplicable calamitous defending by Evans they wouldn't have scored. Whereas, when our midfield weren't pushing forward Chorley scored 2 goals and could have had at least one more.
That's a strange argument. Denton isn't very good because he can't play whilst being fouled? If refs allowed Harry Kane to suffer the shirt-pulling, holding and outright wrestling that Denton gets every week he'd probably be paying at our level. On just a few occasions this season refs have given Denton some protection,and he's played well, but most haven't, and we've all seen with our own eyes what goes on.
Granted it's a man's game, and players have to be able to take some legitimately delivered hammerings, but there comes a time when the level of foul play must have its effect. Yesterday was a prime example.
I take your point about our conceding two of the goals whilst the midfield were hanging modestly about in their own half, but by the second half Chorley were just settling for defence of a decent lead and weren't really interested in going at us. Which is just as well, because the defence are never very far away from gifting the opposition goals at the best of times.
This post has been edited by h again: 17 November 2019 - 09:57 PM