The Voice - Match preview Crewe Alexandra vs Bradford City Monday 1st January 2024 3:00pm

Much, much better in that last 3 minutes when the ball was on the ground. Smallwood passing to Cook on the floor so he could control it and then getting it wide. Much, much better. Problem is we're defaulting to the "get it forward asap" stuff and we don't need to. There's space in the midfield for Smallwood, Gilliead, Oduor. They need to get the ball on the deck more

 

Shocking game of football, but if anyone wants a laugh then bob the commentary onto home audio. These two sound like the 2 old men from the Muppets. Woefully sour commentary, everytime we breathe near a Crewe players there's 45 seconds of "what a disgrace" type commentary.

 

Improvement needed second half. Needs more composure in the final third. Score next, and we win.

 

Incorrect. It has to be deemed a genuine attempt to play the ball and as with everything, it's open to a referees interpretation.

 

We're the better side but there's a glaring lack of quality from everyone when we enter the final third.

The standard of crossing from open play and set pieces has been pathetic.

 

Absolutely sick of losing to teams bang out of form and with several players missing. We lose one player in Walker and we look naff.

Need to test their young 'keeper; He looks dreadful.

 

It was changed in 2017. If the defender makes an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball it can't be a red card in the penalty area.

 

It’s the names wrong as well.
Charles Odor.
Get Smallwood and Halliday mixed up.

Still better than AK though.

 

Once again we see a goalkeeper guess at a penalty and the ball goes more or less straight down the middle.
For goodness sake stand your ground, just for a second, and that pen is saved with ease.
How many times do we see this???/

 

23 crosses according to iFollow.

I think we could mix it up a little maybe?

 

We are missing Walker big big style.

 

Tons of possession means feck all if can't do anything with it; that final pass is severely lacking. Crewe is nothing great, but are on top. Need to figure it out in this one, all 3 points should be ours.

 

It only has to be "attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball" which means as long as the challenge is somewhere near the ball it won't be a red card. You'd have to be a long way away from the ball to red card with a challenge like Tomkinson made.

 

Think im gonna listen to it in silence rather than listen to these bellends ...........not sour grapes because weve had other teams commentary that give a well balanced view of the game but these two winkers are reet up there with the Tranmere lot

As for the game..... Crewe are deffo there for the taking if we can get a grip of the game

 

Been the much better team, Crewe have been very poor. But unfortunately in both boxes we’ve been shacky and poor when it matters. Need much better end product second half.

 

Smallwood a passenger since being booked he can't make a challenge, just getting run through

 

I can see Smallwood coming off for McDonald either at half time or by 60 minutes as he's had to pull out of a few challenges because of his yellow card, last thing we need is a sending off.

 

Or a back up that can do the same work ...

 

What’s happened to Wilson? Injured or another out of favour player?

This is the sort of game Pointon would enjoy imo.

 

Salford 3-0 down at half time

Wrexham have scored in 45+9, 45+11, and 45+13!! That reads like a maths equation lol