I am not going to give points per player scores as I think some members find this boring .
It was a topsy turvy game , we get games like this once in a while . The turning point was the missed penalty , the County fans did their bit by lifting Tanto’s confidence by immediately singing his name although after a fantastic first half he did fade a bit .
The opening was so exciting , Tanto and Barry were far too good and quick for a fairly static Grimsby defence and their goal was bring bombarded with shots raining in .
That’s the big difference with County this season compared to last , we have plenty of pace up front and with Sarcesvic spraying passes all over the park you can see why we are on this great run .
Grimsby to their credit somehow got it back to 2 - 2 and the game was hanging in the balance a bit at that point , and the Grimsby ‘ bogey ‘ was starting to loom over Edgeley . Fortunately , Barry got us out of trouble to win the game for us .
When County were good , we were very good , when we were a bit flat we were ordinary . Strangely when Grimsby got their penalty they didn’t really threaten us at all after that .
We have got to be a better team taking penalties , we seem to miss as many as we score . It’s a mystery why Tanto took the second one maybe it was because he was bundled over and the momentum was with him but he would be the first to admit the penalty was dire !!
I was speaking to a couple of fans in the Together Stand and the best way to take a penalty is how Geoff Hurst used to take them and that was a huge blast straight down the middle , which Barry did to some extent with the first pen . A keeper is going to move slightly one way or the other and if he doesn’t the shear power of the strike would be enough to go in off the keeper . How many penalties did Geoff Hurst ever miss ?
Anyway we won , all the fans were happy and we now move on to Crewe Alexandra , they are scoring a huge number of goals and am a bit surprised to see them in the top four , so this will be a big test , our record is fairly good at Crewe , confidence is sky high so I see no reason why we cannot continue our run .
A scoring draw is my prediction !
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