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Bad defending one down.

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why the hell do we take many short corners? certainly deserve a goal imho.

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How has Charles missed from 3 yards ? Easily the best side so how we’re behind I do not know ......

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Charles shoots over from a yard out

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Story of the season

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Bad defending

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Opuku not defending very well keeps getting caught forward.

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Stanley started well but have struggled for any fluency since going behind.

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And Charles misses again with Clark stood on his own square .... I could weep.

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think bishop has done ok.we did start very well i thought, but oxford for me have been more dangerous going forward.

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We can't let them score another game over to be fair I think Stanley slightly shaded a very poor first half of football poor passing mostly by both sides a bit of quality and thinking on the ball we might get something.

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agree andy, the only thing we are lacking is the finish. and thats the main thing.

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Where, oh where is our Midfield ?.. Sam is poor.. Conneely abysmal !...That is where I'm afraid, this game will be lost.
Oxford's midfield have so much time and space it's unbelievable !.

REDS !.. YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS !.

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2-0 poor ball from Charles led to that.

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Anyone seen our defence tonight ? Love to know where they’ve gone ...

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There's the second we lose it upfront again they break and quality finish but again we're was Okupu.

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Two nil !.. so easy for Oxford it seems.. Changes to midfield desperately needed ?

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very lucky that were not the third.:eek:

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What midfield

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Oxford first to make a change.

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Seal on for Charles.

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Take Finley off before he his sent off.

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3-0

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3-0 game over Okupu short again he has been poor tonight has have Stanley.

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No words - goodnight all :(

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Tranmere winning

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Tranmere won

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Well that was an embarrassment !.. A well-drilled Oxford walking round and through at will, an inept and leaderless Stanley !.
POOR defending and a midfield bereft of basic footballing skills, imagination and urgency, giving no support whatsoever to a well below-Par set of Strikers !.
Oxford must have felt that their collective Birthdays and Christmases had all come at once ,
having barely to break sweat to overcome the weak and inept Stanley team in front of them !.
Tonight, The Reds were just not fit for purpose, and it gives me no satisfaction whatsoever to say that !.
We must all feel sorry for the Stanley fans who had travelled South and then had to witness and endure the disappointing event !.

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Barclay is worth a start in midfield - surely??

:) :)

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A bit baffled by team selection we win 3 on the trot with McGuire playing well at left back Diallio looking solid in midfield and Grant brought in to add a bit of experience and quality up front.I know Diallio supposedly had a knock but all 3 dropped and we lose 2 games one tonight embarrassingly.

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Conneely was our best player.
Only one who moved the ball, picked up from defence and looked to play it out wide.
Anyone care to explain different?
Sykes was okay. Bishop battles but didn’t get rub of green.
Rest of team poor.
Opoku positional play is dire, Finley too sloppy.
Nothing went to Bishop.
Johnson, Clark and Pritchard so predictable.
Bursik should have done better.

Bolton will be a tough test .

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Shouldn't be every ones beating Bolton, but then again.

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Just watched Coleman's post match interview and how he can say we were better in every department is to be honest delusional defence all over the place apart from were they should have been midfield out muscled wingers not at their best , lest said about upfront the better, Ashley-Seal been disappointing so far Grant mysteriously left out?

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What an embarrassment that was sitting in a freezing cold stand watching one of the more pathetic performances from Stanley this season.
If someone had said that the team in white had never played together before tonight I wouldn’t have argued with them. They seemed clueless as to where each other were or what they were about to do; lost count the number of times Stanley passed to no-one or, even worse, to the nearest colleague who was already surrounded by Oxford players within tackling distance.
The last 30 minutes was like a training session for Oxford who were fitter, faster, stronger, quicker thinking, more skilful, more eager, and made scoring look easy, three times.
There was more than a league in difference between the two teams tonight and, whilst a competent team, Oxford don’t yet look Championship standard.

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And Stanley didn't look league 1standard.

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Freezing cold stand it will be at Bolton on Saturday to good luck to those that attend surely Stanley can't be that poor again.

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Surprising as that was it was actually a better result for us than if the Shrews had won or even if it had finished in a draw - the only positive from last night

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With Tranmere winning we now need 50 points 4 wins we have to play Bolton,MK Don's away Tranmere, Bristol Rovers at home they are your 4 wins on paper 12 points +39 would give us 51 really important games because the rest are all difficult against a lot of the leading teams.

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thats why stanley are where they are. irratic players and results. the players are not that bad to get a few results to make division 1 mathmatically safe for another season. like a lot of sides you never know which one is turning up on the day.

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i will be very shocked if we need 50 to survive, we will have to see andy,

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I agree to a point Cashy but better to be safe than sorry can easily go on a losing run as you can a winning one, not sure Coleman knows his best 11 now some strange choices to me last 2 games.

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think he knows his prefered team which for me isn,t always the best team. always seems to trust certain players more than he does others.

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I must have watched a different game tonight.
To call it an embarrassment is quite frankly embarrassing.
For 50 mins we more than matched Oxford, in fact I’d say the better team. More chances and we actually looked quite decent. Suppose this doesn’t fit the narrative though.
Poor result yes, completely disastrous no.
We’ll still stay up and that would be a great achievement. Although I imagine for most people that wouldn’t be enough.
It’s became increasingly apparent the lack of praise when we won 3(!) in a row on here and the abundance of negativity after we have lost back to back games to top of the league and the best team I’ve saw this season in Oxford.

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it was a poor result yes, the main difference was oxford could finish when they came forward we could not, certainly not a disaster to me,

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same for me. football is about scoring more goals than the opposition and not who actually plays the better football whatever anyone classes what better football actually is.

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Our problem wasn't midfield in fact they did ok apart from distribution. The age old issue of missing absolute sitters was the problem.
Last night was Charles turn to take the Zanzala award for sitters.
We also missed Hughes.
I dont think Opoku is remotely interested .... unless its just his body language.
On to the next one.
They will be fired up after the mauling at ours.

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Agree with all of the above, 28, although poor distribution from midfield was a pretty significant problem.
Also thought Opoku look uninterested and/or not fully fit, but Alese appeared to do his best to stand in for much missed Hughes.

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if he aint interested J.C. will know therefore if so send him back. imho.

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As 28 wrote, difficult to tell from Opoku’s body language, which can appear ‘leisurely’. Maybe he thought he should have been CB? Or just not yet match fit?
I like him, but still wonder if he could play further forward as he clearly likes getting up the pitch and can get past opponents.

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Can't get back though

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Yeah know what you mean about Opoku. It's his style of play that often feels casual. He reminds me of Beckles in that respect. He will play at a much higher level...won't be with us next season...will be snapped up by a club higher up the pyramid......I think Mguire is more a league 1 player. Played well when he got his chance, but seems second choice for some reason.....I wish he'd get a longer run in the side...Up the Stanley!....see you all at Bolton on Saturday....😁⚽️