Areas to focus on: Getting more shots on goal to test the keeper, general sharpness (particularly passing), being more vocal
Man of the match: Luke - has become Mr Consistent and put in another solid performance
Worth a mention: Pacey - was our main physical presence, Ted - did not deserve the bad luck with the goal as played so well for the whole match keeping things tight at the back.
Manager's comments: Following last weeks' performance I was expecting a more positive start to the game but it was Sidmouth who were well on top for the first 15 minutes but some good defending kept them out. We did come back into the game and Francis was desperately unlucky hitting the cross bar but I was happy to go into half-time honours even having been below par and playing into the wind.
The second half saw us getting more possession but there was still nothing between both sides and a draw was looking like the obvious outcome, which I thought would have been a fair result, but a cruel own goal gave Sidmouth a narrow victory.
I said before the game that Sidmouth are a much improved side and coming off the back of beating Bideford confidence was high. Whilst they are not a big threat up front (although put 5 past Bideford!), they work really well as team and are hard to breakdown getting numbers behind the ball but on the rare occasions we played our passing football we did get some success but this it was too far and few between, so we will be concentrating on this in training tomorrow.
To finish on a positive note, despite the soft goals we tend to give away only Bideford (who have played a few less games than us) have conceded less goals than us which is great as new comers to division 1; we now just need to score a few more by getting in more shots on goal to avoid narrowly missing out on so many points.
See you tomorrow chaps!
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