They shaded the first 15 minutes

Largely because Stiepermann seemed to think he was playing central midfield rather than left back so there was a huge gap down the left. Once we worked that out I thought we completely bossed it from minutes 15- 35. They then had a good 10 minutes at the end of the half when we got sloppy.

Their two good chances (post and mcgoldrick header) came from two laughably bad refereeing decisions. When they had the ball in open play they were slow and predictable and didn't really look threatening.

During the middle section of the half we created at least 3 or 4 good opportunities via Wildshutt who they couldn't cope with until he tired a bit. The end shots were weak but these were decebt chances, we also had one when Pinto got in down the right.

I'm not saying we completely bossed the first half and arguably McGoldricks chance was the best (although it was never, ever a free kick) but it was certainly even and they at no point looked the better side.

Posted By: Jim on October 23rd 2017 at 08:32:24

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Sky highlights are bizarre (NCFC) - Jim, Oct 23, 07:16:14
- Was that the same commentator for the play off final? (n/m) (NCFC) - BSE Canary, Oct 23, 09:03:31
- I thought they were most likely to score. (NCFC) - lurd, Oct 23, 08:38:29
  - We caused our own problems (or the referee did) (NCFC) - Jim, Oct 23, 09:25:24
    - Just because we made mistakes, doesn't make their chances count any less. (NCFC) - lurd, Oct 23, 09:32:09
- The commentary for the first half had a massive pro Ipswich bias. (n/m) (NCFC) - bobble, Oct 23, 08:19:35
  - I agree with this. Higginbotham seemed very pro-scum. (n/m) (NCFC) - JD3, Oct 23, 08:25:53
    - Did he play for them on loan once or have I imagined that (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Oct 23, 08:33:40
      - Yes in 2012. (n/m) (NCFC) - lurd, Oct 23, 09:25:40
      - I thought he was very fair and knew a lot about us and how we play (n/m) (NCFC) - Hulk Rules, Oct 23, 09:00:43
- We had chances to create without actually creating much (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 23, 08:06:32
  - They shaded the first 15 minutes (NCFC) - Jim, Oct 23, 08:32:24
    - Without being patronizing, probably the best Shitland Pony team we've played for ages (NCFC) - BSE Canary, Oct 23, 09:05:21
  - Got to be honest, I was there and I thought it was 50:50 at HT (NCFC) - Yellalee, Oct 23, 08:28:37
    - Yep 2nd half was quite comfortable (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 23, 08:35:26
      - It was similar to Reading. What is encouraging is that Farke seems to be able to spot (NCFC) - Jim, Oct 23, 09:27:37
  - 5 shots on target to their 2. (n/m) (NCFC) - avenging canary, Oct 23, 08:09:48
    - And the best 2 efforts/chances of the first half were off target (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 23, 08:12:38
- That's OK. Let them think we were poor and just got lucky. (n/m) (NCFC) - derbyshire canary, Oct 23, 07:28:05
  - We weren’t poor (NCFC) - SCC 28, Oct 23, 08:07:43
- I saw that, must of been a scummer edit the highlights (n/m) (NCFC) - Hit Squadie, Oct 23, 07:23:21

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