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Post-Match Thread and Ratings Newport County AFC 0 -1 Southend Utd

Just watched the extended highlights on iFollow (with the Northern commentator, not the one from last night), it's a measure of how poor the first half was that of the 9 minutes of action, only the first minute is before half-time and that includes the pre-match build-up!

One of the keys for last night was keeping it at 0-0 for a long time. Credit to the whole of the midfield for working hard to do that. Demi gets a fair bit of criticism on here but I thought he did his job well last night. He wasn't so great going forwards but he works hard, breaks up play and covers well. Same for Dieng and Ferguson I thought. The fact that they didn't get forwards to support Halford left him rather isolated and I think RHF and ANG should have got closer to him to help him out on that score. However credit to Halford, he kept trying and, like @rigsby , I did enjoy him flattening their centre half!

Halford is definitely not the long term solution up there, but Acquah could learn a lot from him.

I still think Ranger could do that job even better if he can get his body, and more importantly his mind fit for purpose!
 
Just watched the extended highlights on iFollow (with the Northern commentator, not the one from last night), it's a measure of how poor the first half was that of the 9 minutes of action, only the first minute is before half-time and that includes the pre-match build-up!

One of the keys for last night was keeping it at 0-0 for a long time. Credit to the whole of the midfield for working hard to do that. Demi gets a fair bit of criticism on here but I thought he did his job well last night. He wasn't so great going forwards but he works hard, breaks up play and covers well. Same for Dieng and Ferguson I thought. The fact that they didn't get forwards to support Halford left him rather isolated and I think RHF and ANG should have got closer to him to help him out on that score. However credit to Halford, he kept trying and, like @rigsby , I did enjoy him flattening their centre half!

Halford is definitely not the long term solution up there, but Acquah could learn a lot from him.

I still think Ranger could do that job even better if he can get his body, and more importantly his mind fit for purpose!
Demi and Ferguson did the battling disciplined stuff in front of the back 4 very well. Demi totally underrated by those that don't appreciate the importance of what he does in the system- the 3 & 1 ahead do the fancy "attacking" stuff - in part due to the ugly stuff done by the 2 behind them.
 
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