A long day yesterday, but every home game is a long day out. We left at 9.30am, and met everyone else at Liverpool Street around 10:30am. Finally back at 8.15pm, thanks to a lucky H9 bus that appeared at Northwick Park station just as we had started to walk home.
As the game was a sell-out the atmosphere was a bit flat as often seems to be the way, and with City the worry is always the bigger the expectation the worse the team will play.
As regards the game, it was not a classic, but it was three points. City played well first half against an organised but limited Swindon team who were missing their best player, Jonathan Douglas. We had the majority of the play, created chances, and hit the bar before Chris Martin scored from close in after thirty minutes. George Francomb, who I first saw at Gillingham had a good first half, but didn’t appear for the second due to a thigh strain. Korey Smith dropped into right back and we lost some bite in midfield.
The second half was very average, but City didn’t look like conceding and I can’t remember Forster having to deal with a shot on target all game. The defence today looked very good, and I’m sure the reason Swindon didn’t look dangerous was that the back four played so well as opposed to Swindon being poor.
It the sort of result that teams near the top of the table need, get ahead, keep solid, get a win and move on to the next game.
And finally, well done to Wealdstone who won 4-2 at Aylesbury and are in the first round of the FA Cup for more than twenty years. I’m still optimistic that it will be City vs Wealdstone when the balls are pulled from the bag at 1.00pm.
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