Posh Blog

Our first half performance against Huddersfield was pretty bad, as was our entire match against Leicester, but Saturday was just pathetic. Yeovil are one of the lowest scoring teams in the league yet they quite easily beat us at home no less. The statistics state that they had 74% of the possession. That's completely unacceptable for a side supposedly challenging for an automatic promotion spot this year. Sure we had a makeshift defence which was further weakened during the match but that's no excuse for a performance like that.

We hadn't really threatened their goalie much in the first 30 minutes and that's when they took the lead. We failed to deal with a set piece allowing their giant centre back to head the ball on for their striker to put away. The second goal was just two minutes later and was almost completely identical to the first except this time the defender just headed it straight in from the set piece.

By this time the crowd were pretty stunned into silence and the shock of it seemed to be affecting the players too. Russell Martin even managed to foul throw the ball by inexplicably dropping it on his feet while taking a throw in. Nobody in the side seemed to have a clue except Dean Keates.

Fergie had to give yet another half time bollocking as this was the 5th match in a row that we had gone behind first. It seemed to have some effect, we finally managed to make some attacks forward and it paid off when Aaron McLean put the ball away 20 minutes into the half. We really started to put some pressure on now and it seemed that perhaps we could come back into the game. Then it happened...

Yeovil made a break down the wing and their attacker made a fairly easily saved shot from the side of the box, the shot didn't appear to be on target and there were no players pressurising Joe Lewis at the time. He stretched his arms out, touched the ball but instead of catching it, managed to fumble the ball into the net, to the surprise of pretty much everyone. I'm not even sure the Yeovil players realised they could have scored that one. There was no chance of coming back now and the last 15 minutes just kind of petered out.

Lewis has made a lot of mistakes recently and his confidence seems to be at an all time low. He has no competition at the club for his place as we only have a youth goalie as our backup at the moment with Tyler on loan so he will have to get his confidence back in front of everyone, and he needs to do it fast before it costs us too many more points.

Next Match Attending

Tranmere v Posh
17/1/09 7.45pm
Prenton Park