Unlike most of the reviews that I do for our fair football club that can be far ranging and long, this will be an actual brief review because I don't want to talk about this game of football for a particularly long time. Partly due to the dire football on show and partly down to us failing to win. So, let's get on with review.
Three changes from the weekend's fracas with Blackpool with Anel and McBurnie returning to the XI and, nearly a year after joining the club, Adam Davies debuted between the sticks for the suspended Foderingham. Very little happened in this half and that's an understatement. It was so, so poor from both teams. Neither created any chances I think apart from pot shots from angles that only Ronaldinho would score from. The big news of the half was the inevitable injury to a United player. This week's victim was one of our top performers of the season so far in Rhys Norrington-Davies who pulled up with a hamstring injury after attempting to swing in a cross 10 minutes in. RND was carried off on a stretcher and the proverbial idiom 'when it rains, it pours' immediately came to mind. Maybe we should just stop employing a left side of the pitch because of all the injuries we have on that side of the pitch. McAtee came on and poleaxed a Coventry player and that was that for half one. Crap? Absolutely. Did it get any better? Not really. There were a few more chances to write home about in the second half which was nice from a viewing perspective, I guess. Illiman sent a couple of efforts flashing wide and then Norwood hit the top of the crossbar with a free kick akin to 'that' one against Villa many moons ago. United did pick up the pace and quality of play after this for a bit and did manage to string some decent passing moves in and around the Coventry box but with very little end product. All of a sudden, a big flashpoint in the game occurred like a Randy Orton RKO when Ndiaye and McBurnie connected just outside the Coventry box eventually seeing our Scottish international send an effort flying towards goal that had the keeper beat... But stung the post and bobbled away before anything could formulate. Coventry had a shout for a penalty at the other end but that looked like it would be that for a truly turgid game of football. Wait, why's Basham brought down the Coventry player there? Oh, great, we've given away a penalty and Waghorn has struck it hard and low past Davies to steal victory and condemn United to a second away loss on the trot and leaving us without a win in five. Fun times, I'm sure you'll agree. Not much else to say really, you don't want to read any more about what was a godawful game of football, and I really don't want to write anymore about the godawful game of football. So that's that then. Onto Norwich at the weekend. Until then, UTB.
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