NL: Woking V Torquay United 7:45pm 3 September 2019

1-1 ft- will take that away from Home. Hopefully those knocks aren’t too bad.

Wonder what Buse is thinking....

Where are me and Ruairi going out on loan?

I thought we looked reasonably solid at the back tonight and Lewis and Cameron looked a decent pairing. Although, clearly the very useful new signing will be here as a starter. In the middle of the park, Poku was both dirty and effective for them. Asa Hall did not have a good night at all. Reidy’s turn and shot from a delightful move where he showed great legs in getting inside his man from a Duku cross and swivelling and shooting hard against the upright was promising. We had the ball in the back of the net reasonable early on. It looked offside. The linesman took an absolute age and celebrations were almost over when he eventually put his flag up to signal offside. Think it was Duku who put it in the net.

But despite the better chances falling for us, I thought Woking shaded the first half. They left their foot in a lot. And we responded. It was no surprise that there ended up being early injury substitutions. The officials were bloody awful, tbh. I think Lemonheigh-Evans was withdrawn at half time to save him being kicked up in the air for large parts of the second half. Armani Little was another nobbled by Woking and his replacement showed early promise on the wing. Compact little player who likes to run at players with the ball and looks good at it. Woking finished much the stronger in the first half as we did switch off a bit after Little went off.

Second half, it was hard to pick a winner until Woking went ahead. Would need to see it again, but just before Hall had been dispossessed in half way (as he was a few times tonight). It was a well taken finish from their number 7. I was up the other end. I didn’t think we’d be getting back level. It seemed that sort of night. Andrews then puts in a delightful cross, the type that’s a bugger to defend and the shortest player on the pitch, Ben Whitfield, heads home at the far post. Came after a period of pressure and probably deserved by that stage. Woking weren’t wasting time anymore. Their chavs realised bedtime was approaching and Ben Gerring wasn’t going to be on the winning side. As it was to be.

My player ratings

Covolan 7.5 Bloody good. Great on crosses. Couldn’t do anything for their goal
Wynter 6.5 Had a few different midfielders in front of him tonight with changes required. Did well.
Cameron 7
Lewis 7.5 Looked quite strong at centre back for a young lad
Davis 7 Still never seen him have a bad game
CLE 6 Kicked early. Might have taken a knock. Always looking to create something
Hall 5 Poor tonight
Little 6 A few good through balls, but another kicked about a lot and had to be withdrawn for injury
Vincent 5.5 Not so good. Looked a bit lost in the second half and was unsurprised when he was withdrawn
Duku 4.5 Wasn’t impressed. Poor first touch. Doesn’t get very high for headers. Don’t lump it to him.
Reid 7.5 Great shot against the woodwork first half and a constant thorn in their side

Whitfield 7 A promising debut.
Andrews 7.5 Good. Nice ball for our goal. Downesy saying it was Wynter. He’s probably right.
Kalala 6.5 Not on long but good going forward. Hesitant at times.

Very good point considering the mandatory rubbish officialdom we always seem to end up with!

We all know the turning point of last season, let's hope with the signing of the two newbies and that valuable point, this is the turning point of this season!