Wrexham 1

[Woody]

Expectations were very low, so pleased with first half, hooper was playing wide left, grant was wide right. It gave protection when we didn't have the ball but we struggled a little going forward. Probably need players breaking from midfield, but didn't happen. Still think we deserved the win, hanging on last 20 minutes

[spuderz123]

Originally Posted by moynkeepthefaith

Played some decent stuff for 35 minutes then sat back for 55. Akil Headless chicken,Redmond bypassed/bored Rutherford running as ever with little end product. Thought Lainton had a decent shout for MOM which speaks volumes.
One strange observation- absolutely no noise from the Chesterfield 73 apart from one ‘ooo’ in the second half. Were they protesting?

They were doing a sponsored silence. I said I'd give them 10p for every 10 minutes they were silent for but they ruined it with that oooh. I'm feeling generous though so will give them 80p

[paddockgraham]

messing about in these tin pot cups will cement our relegation place

[Prodigal Dragon]

Very good first-half, when we passed the ball quickly on the deck. Second-half we were dire, with Harris and Grant cocking up one-on-ones with Coddington. Barton was a good shout for MOTM but Lainton made some great reaction saves to keep Chesterfield out.

Glad we won but need some better players pdq because we will struggle to pick up points these next few games if our second-half performance becomes the norm.

[Prodigal Dragon]

Originally Posted by paddockgraham

messing about in these tin pot cups will cement our relegation place

Little sign of cement but lots of jelly.

[eslessred]

Agree with all above. Main positive for me was Horsfield who I thought had a pretty decent game. Solid, plenty of energy up n down the wing. Doesn't panic on the ball and always found his man with a pass.

[Red Light]

Came out of the blocks on fire - played some nice football first half - nice passing to feet - my belief is that Chesterfield were treating their derby on Saturday v Notts County in the league as top priority and made 6 changes - out went the big guns and they started with Boden and Spyrou - we started with Hooper and Grant up front.

First half we were better - but in total contrast it was if the teams just changed shirts at half time - second half we hardly got out of our half and sat deep almost inviting pressure - that said we had good chances to increase our lead - a breakaway where two Wrexham players had shots in quick succession but both couldn't kill the game plus Grant with a straight run on goal with only Coddington to beat in the closing stages but messed it up.

Chesterfield were like us - some good approach play and when they brought on Denton late on they looked even more threatening - lumping in lots of crosses that Chambers and Barton dealt with - but they too had their chances.

Both teams were poor and neither show any cutting edge or can turn in a good performance over 90 minutes - if you throw two turds in a confined bucket of water one always floats a bit higher than the other - marginally we were top turd tonight - but I doubt Rochdale will be so charitable in the next round.

The new right back Horsefield looked solid enough - the back four did well but it's a team thing - we just seemed to sit back and allow Chesterfield to dictate play in the second half - granted they had to come out and chase the game but it's not the first time we seem to adopt this tactic and hope by scoring first we can defend the game out or are we not fit enough to play full tilt for 90 minutes ? Second half was exactly the opposite to the first - we totally lost out high tempo and playing with zip.

[barnsley]

I watched it but Ive got no idea how we won

[René Higuita]

This team could seriously go down. That was awful. Two dreadful teams. Any half decent side would have thrashed us tonight.