Closer game tonight, thought both teams were evenly matched, but Rovers didn't have the play with Valery, Musaba or Gassama, so they were always going to edge it. FT 0-1 on balance a fair result
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Peep-peep.
Another home struggle against an ordinary visiting team.
Plenty of commitment from the players, but I can't remember one bit of quality when and where it mattered. And the grumbling fans not helping by watching in silence.
Can we play away every week?
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4231 with fullbacks making it 2251. But just nothing balls into the area, their defence clearing easily. Flat, uninspired, out of sorts. No lack of effort or intent or fight; just quality.
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82' Smith's header is saved and Rovers manage to scramble the ball wide for a corner as the Owls search for an equaliser..
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Pato and Ugbo on, Musaba and Iorfa off.
I think we're just trying to overload them with attackers and hope we don't get caught on the break with reduced numbers at the back.
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77' 🔁Double change for the Owls as Ugbo and Paterson replace Iorfa and Musaba
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75' Bannan on the half volley just over the bar!
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Buggar. Soft cross, not cleared, put back in, their striker too strong for our defence, nods in from not far out. Or maybe own goal? #Owls one down anyway. Buggar.
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69' 🔁 Windass and Jamal Lowe are replaced by Smith and Gassama
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68' GOAL - Gueye heads in the opener for the visitors
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63' 🔁 First change of the game for us as Valentin comes on in place of Valery
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#Owls looking sharper and more dangerous after restart, and crowd strike up a song too.
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53' Good spell here for the Owls as Windass and Jamal Lowe both go for goal in a Kop end scramble!
Bannan shoots over as the ball came out to the captain from the resulting corner
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46' ▶️ We're back underway at Hillsborough
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Atmosphere at Hillsborough is as flat as a southern pint of beer. Again It's becoming a problem. Fans quiet -> Team quiet -> Fans quieter -> Team quieter...
Maybe we need some great injustice or adversity to overcome together and get everyone geed up as one.
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Thin fayre, that half. A bit of danger here and there from both teams, the #Owls having a bit the better of what there was.
I have been reduced to pondering #BRFC's away kit. It's all pink, but with an annoying mismatch between shirt (candy-floss) and shorts/socks (bubblegum).
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Ball works over to the left, Bannan curls a lovely cross from deep in and over the defence, Bernard wins the header but just a bit off-target. A burst of excitement from the two teams!
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40' Owls close again! This time Bannan delivers into the middle, Bernard met the cross but his header was off target
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We win a corner, not the best deliery, but Valery gets summat on it at the front stick that loops it over Pears and onto the bar. Scrambled away for another #Owls corner.
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39' Now the Owls hit the woodwork! Valery's header hits the bar from Charles' corner!
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In a panic we clear a corner to the edge of the area, ball comes straight back as an uncontested shot that hits the underside of the bar, bounces down onto the line and out. Beadle beaten. Owls lucky. We am cackapooey at setpieces still.
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36’ Almost the breakthrough for Rovers as Travis’s strikes hits the underside of the crossbar..
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Musaba dribbles to the edge of their box, wins a foul. Windass gets the freekick on target, but Pears messily pushes it behind for a corner. Which gets across to Bannan on the edge of the box. He volleys, deflected for another corner, which we piss up the wall. Good spell tho.
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27' Free kick struck well by Windass but Pears makes the save!
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