AFC Wimbledon - Good Friday

[SeanODonovan]

Three great assists from Bayo and after 24 hours I have forgiven him. Header for the first one, then he slide a prefect pass for a shot which was saved. Then it came back to him a few seconds later - no panic from the big man - just slide another perfect pass to exactly the same position and this time Duke couldn't keep out the shot. 

[Ryan Amoo 14]

  Not quite apparent from the highlights but it was quite a nice (intentional) dummy from Toney at the nearpost for the first goal.

[Poggy]

That knee slide from one of our fans celebrating the second goal is my highlight from them highlights.

[guest2487]

The pic of Gray celebrating and the fan on his knees is brilliant. Shows the true passion and why we all go to watch football.

[betamax toploader]

That knee slide from one of our fans celebrating the second goal is my highlight from them highlights.

Hello Poggy. Now available, courtesy of the Herald and Post.

[guest2235]

just seen the highlights, their first goal should never have been allowed. It was a blatant push by Bayo before he heads it across goal.

[TheLuxuryFan]

I've written an alternative match report for the Wimbledon game, from an independent (and mildly odd) perspective. Check it out (here: https://theluxuryfan.wordpress.com/2015/04/04/don-and-dusted/) and, if you like that, tweet @TheLuxuryFan or comment on my Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/theluxuryfan?ref=hl).

Good luck to the Cobblers for the rest of the season.

[BRING_BAYO_BACK]

Great result for the town, personally thought that James Gray did very well to get in that position for the first goal, kudos to him. Unfortunately I was in the toilet for the second goal, but by the sound of the cobblers faithful it was a good's. come on cobblers.

[defender]

  Who was told to mark Bayo? he was unmarked when he made the two passes!

[bungle]

Bayo was well-marshalled in the first half. According to Ardley's interview, they changed their system and really went for it in the second half, with three up front and full backs bombing forward. Unsurprisingly, Bayo got more space and showed again why he is arguably the best hold-up player in the lower divisions.

We should have dealt a lot better with it, though. The second goal in particular was poor defending and I've noticed that we've become particularly vulnerable to strikes from the edge of our penalty area (C.f. Bury, Luton and now AFC W) over the past few weeks.  Taylor does a good job of screening the back four, but there are times when Byrom, as the second deep-lying midfielder, could do better.


O'Toole is marginally more solid and defensively useful than Toney, and is occasionally capable of some neat passing. However, as an attacking threat he is absolutely non-existent. I actually think if we played Darren Carter as an attacking midfielder he'd probably be more effective even though his legs went about five years ago!

Toney made some poor decisions but he still made a far greater attacking impact than O'Toole by virtue of his sheer energy, urgency and desire to score. O'Toole is starting to remind me a bit of Emile Sinclair: a supposedly 'attacking' player who seems unwilling or unable to commit himself in the penalty area. I'm starting to think that the only way this guy will ever score goals is if he has a big Bayo/Harrold style target man roll the ball out to him to stroke home from 12 yards out. Unfortunately, we can't afford to set the side up purely for his benefit.