Post by Sons FC on Apr 14, 2019 14:55:26 GMT
It was a totally dominant display and it was wonderful to see us play such good football.
The BBC use the Press Association for their stats and these are either drawn from a local reporter at the game or a young lad who lives locally, which introduces presumed bias into the stats in the first place.
Stats can only tell you so much (the stats for the game are wrong anyway). How ever many shots the stats say Yeovil had, other than two very good saves from Morris (he was right there anyway and his positional sense allowed him to make them look relatively easy) all the Yeovil shots resulted in "gathers" rather than saves.
In the first half we had three headers at goal in quick succession, one was saved, one was blocked and one was hit into the side netting (this was the only one shown on the highlights). Add in two more headers off target and one further "gather" by their keeper and I counted at least 6 shots with two on target for us in the first half - the BBC stats stated that we had two shots , none on target!
The stats only tell part of the story - they cannot show how well we kept possession, how we pressed, moved, played and passed.
Was the reporter at the wrong game? That is a question for him rather than me but I take it from your question that you weren't there - this is why I have tried to give a flavour of the game - to help those who couldn't be there by analysing the game rather than the result or the stats.
GABRIELLE CIOFFI'S RED ARMY!