Will the real AFC Wimbledon please stand up. Could we just be starting to see the hard work pay off in recent weeks. Last week we got a good point against a play off contender. This week we win emphatically away, admittedly against a woeful Rovers team. If we get something from Tuesday against Oldham and beat Walsall, we could just be talking about mounting a play off challenge ourselves. Yes the division is that close.
A couple of words of caution though.
Yes we scored three, but we should have been five up by half time. Cody’s open goal miss was a shocker and shows he’s still not the complete answer to our problems up front. Mind you, the way he took the ball down from Young’s Beasentsque hoof was sumblime as was the finish.
We’ll also come up against better teams. Rovers are even lower in confidence as we were a few weeks ago. Oldham will be far tougher, but winnable. If we could get four points from the next two games, we could be in a much stronger position.
It was interesting listening to Neal Ardley’s post match comments though. When talking about the subs that came on, he said it “wasn’t about me being defensive.” He’s obviously conscious of the criticism aimed at him, but feels it is unjust. Trouble is, if the likes of Sibbick and Hartigan are seen as defensive, it is the gaffers fault if we don’t have any midfielders that aren’t defensive. Personally I’d like to see Hartigan play further forward, perhaps behind a front two in the hole. It’s easy being an armchair manager though.
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