Have you ever been to a restaurant and felt like you've eaten too much after ordering three courses? This isn't an attempt to veer the blog into producing more #relatable content, I think that feeling of being bloated and tired after eating food is the best way to describe our three matches against QPR, Bournemouth and Reading. It started well with a commanding victory against the R's, hen we got to the main course of entertaining but frustrating draw against Bournemouth then we got to the tired, disinterested, bloated loss against Reading on Friday. Right, let's have a go at reviewing this three course match serving.
Match 1: VS QPR This match was a while ago now, or it feels like a while ago (just shy of two weeks, that's pretty long isn't it?) Due to this match being a while ago I've forgot a lot of what happened apart from the goal from Oli Norwood within the first ten minutes after a well worked corner routine involving Fleck and Baldock which Norwood despatched past Westwood to ultimately give us the win and the three points. Despite the 1-0 score line, it was a pretty easy game for United and we managed to restrict QPR to not many chances whilst we tried to probe for more goals, Morgan Gibbs-White might have missed a good opportunity in this game after good footwork to get in the box, that might have happened in this game? Maybe not? Oh well, we won, we looked decent, that's all that matters. Match 2: VS Bournemouth A crucial match in the race for promotion and the play-offs was next with the visit of second place AFC Bournemouth to The Lane. This match can best be described as the perennial 'fantastic advert for the division' with United being very unlucky to not come away with the three points after Morgan Gibbs-White was denied twice by Mark Travers in the Bournemouth net. Before these two chances, Bournemouth nearly helped us out a bit with a header going narrowly behind Travers goal and an attempted clearance slamming onto the crossbar. John Fleck felt he needed to repay Bournemouth's generosity just after halftime with a whipped cross across his own box that almost nestled into the bottom corner of Wes's net. The big controversy of the game came in the last ten minutes when MGW was hacked down in the box which the linesman gave as a penalty but the better placed referee didn't despite Gibbs-White being kicked by Nat Phillips with the Liverpool loanee getting nowhere near the ball. Disappointing? Absolutely, but surely this good performance would be followed up against Reading? Match 3: VS Reading I don't want to talk a lot about this game because we were just the absolute pits. We never looked bothered about trying to win this game and until Ndiaye got our equaliser in the 90th minute we never looked like scoring. Reading were well worthy of the win and it wouldn't have been a fair reflection of the game if we did manage to get a point. That doesn't mean I'm not annoyed we didn't defend for literally two minutes but it is what it is. We were bad, Reading weren't, let's just leave it at that yeah? It all looked so positive against QPR but now after the loss against Reading, everything is looking a bit more precarious. We had a chance to ensconce ourselves in the play-off picture but now we're clinging on a bit. Our run in isn't too bad compared to teams around us but we'll probably need to go unbeaten from now until the end of the season to ensure we get in. Can we do it? Let's hope so. Until next time, enjoy Bristol if you're going today and, as ever, UTB.
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