The Voice - Match preview #7: Bradford City vs AFC Wimbledon Saturday 21st September 2024 3:00pm

Bradford City...we will be "as fit as anyone" in next season's League Two after a gruelling training camp in Austria, according to regular visitor Graham Alexander.

Also Bradford City... a new player (or two) gets injured every match.

 

This long ball to no one is getting boring now

 

Why is Vadaine Oliver a footballer? Surely he could do something else? Tesco maybe?

 

“We don’t shoot at goal, we don’t shoot at gooooal. We’re Bradford City, we don’t shoot at goal”

“Ei ei o, we like having under 5 shots on goal”

 

Dimiti don’t you dare say co op.

 

Waitrose, the Posh barstool

 

Losing Richards has been a blow. He was our best player first half and the second half has proven that Wright is no LB. We’ve looked disjointed the entire second half.

 

The positive is in Oliver. Gets sent off he’s banned for a few games

 

Nice of the referee to add 5 minutes on and only play 2 of them…

also, just needed a Cheek goal for Bromley for £300 on a goalscorer acca! Gutted

 

Also proof today once again that Cook and Oliver as a strike partnership doesn’t work.

 

What a classic…

 

Oliver’s Bradford City career highlight is grabbing hold of a Bromley player and falling over

 

Bore draw. Wimbledon came with a plan to nullify us and it worked. One dimensional play from us.
Positives - Diabate and Shepherd
Negatives - Wright, tactics

 

It was an abysmal game of football. Wimbledon fans saying it was a good performance and they look a top team - just shows you how easy it is to get KET in Bradford.

Crap football.

 

They had 3 or 4 superb passages of attacking play. We defended really well. You sound like you haven't watched much league 2 football. Quality wise it was comfortably better than average.

 

Well at least that 23 man scuffle woke me up.

Dire spectacle and thankful for a point to be honest.

Shepherd and Diabate were excellent today, Smallwood and Pattison decent and Richsrds did well before the injury.

We do miss Walker massively in my opinion. Hopefully not out too long as I believe just bruising.

 

Compared to absolute dross we’ve been served up in past few seasons, that was considerably better.

 

Ref will get stick but we didn’t do anywhere near enough to deserve a win.
Defended resolutely but nowhere near enough quality in the final third.

 

I thought our two centre halves, Shepherd and Diabate were both excellent.
We were lucky to avoid conceding a goal when the ball pinged between the posts.
I was baffled as to why Richards was taken off, it disrupted the defence and Wright was not an improvement as a right back.
Finally I was also baffled as to why we weren't given 2 penalties. There was a clear foul on Adams, that injured him, with no attempt to play the ball. Oliver also had his shirt pulled (very extensively) in the penalty area. Both should have been given in my opinion.

Edit: Was Richards injured?

 

Agree on Walker.
There was one passage of play when Shepherd beat a couple of their players on half way and was desperately looking for a pass but didn’t have one.
Walker always seems to be available for that sort of situation.
We will miss him more than most fans think.