Post-Match Thread and Ratings Aldershot 0-0 Southend Utd

[GBJ]

A frustrating night all round which sadly mirrors so many previous games. Absolutely bossed it from start to finish, but for all our endeavours we couldn’t find a winner.

Positives, it’s another clean sheet. The reality is Aldershot could have played all night and not scored against us.

Negatives, well for all that dominance it’s unfathomable we have come away with a measly point.

Over to you….

 

[Barling Magna]

Full time 0-0. How did we not win that game....? Jeez, we miss Harry.

 

[kentblues]

So Bonne is all up top on his own (it will be all his fault, keyboards spittle covered) but what is the root of this Southend 0 disease that is now years old… it’s a good performance but toothless., actually gumless..

 

[mark387]

Decent dominant performance lacking any real attacking threat. Poor balls in and poor finishing when the ball does make its way through. Aldershot did well to hold GSM out far wide for most of the game.

Not unhappy with the point but it definitely could have been a win.

Husin needs a break, he has been poor in attack for a while now and losing the ball a lot. Give KAF his spot, he's earnt it

 

[Shrimper]

2 points dropped from the sound of it

 

[WickfordShrimper]

Well done to the 537 away Fans I say

Roll on Saturday :-)

And a bit of shooting practice in order :-)

 

[Sunnyshrimper]

Familiar story, better team let down in final 3rd… We would struggle to score in a monkey brothel with a bunch of bananas

 

[palexander]

Got to solve the puzzle of winning games where we absolutely batter teams.

Best chance? Crowthers header 6 yards out he put about 15 ft wide?

 

[Fairport]

We have far too many players in the squad who rarely score goals. Until this is addressed the frustration will continue
.

 

[bazzashrimper]

We had 8 or 10 headed chances there and I think one made the keeper make a dive. Aside from that, excellent display.

 

[Tinks]

Disappointing result if honest and KM must be concerned on our lack of goals

 

[Chrisb]

Full time 0-0. How did we not win that game....? Jeez, we miss Harry.

We certainly do - our other Harry did well again.

 

[kentblues]

We have far too many players in the squad who rarely score goals. Until this is addressed the frustration will continue
.

And it’s the tiniest squad in the league so when our transfer department re opens for Xmas maybe it will be fixed?

 

[Leigh_Seasider]

The clean sheet is definitely a positive and the fact we controlled most of the game. These are the kind of games we need a big centre half heading it in from a corner or a deflected 25 yarder.

For me I still can’t believe we are so poor at set pieces. What, 11 corners?! It’s getting annoying now Kev.
We lack that composure in the final third and that killer ball too often. How many times have we seen it. Anyway .. we didn’t lose, or concede. Let’s bank the point and make sure we get 3 on Saturday.

Oh quick word for April, thought she spoke a lot of sense on BBC Essex.

 

[hlane17]

It's as if we're allergic to scoring out there, so many wasted chances.

 

[Lincoln Shrimp]

Played very well, working ourselves into decent positions on countless occasions, but we paid the price for trying to walk the ball into the net.
Morton and Husin really should be testing the keeper given the positions they take up on the edge of the box, but too often it's the safe ball back out to the wing.

A frustrating evening given that we controlled 80% of the game.

 

[stewart]

Well done to the 537 away Fans I say

Roll on Saturday :-)

And a bit of shooting practice in order :-)

A bit ,maybe they should go watch the u/18s, strikers getting paid for nothing AMs need to learn to pass forward Maher and co need to stop being so nice to the so called strikers. etc etc etc .and remind them what there job actually is .

 

[Suomi Shrimper]

While not getting three points from a game we dominated is disappointing, I'll take the away point and another clean sheet for their 'stop the rot' value after the pre-Eastleigh run.

Finishing an obvious problem but we also need to improve our attacking movement, starting with finding a way for KAF to start - he's our most creative and forward-looking player right now.

 

[Southend Elvis]

We seem to lack movement off the ball, maybe this is why we struggle to open teams up?

 

[Hooly]

Probably a true reflection of where we are as a club unfortunately.

Pretty blunt in attack but did they get much service?
Apart from Coker we had no real go forward in midfield & how Husin warrants a full 90 I have no idea. To many times the player seems to face back to goal rather than turning upfield.
Thankfully reasonably sound at the back although we nearly gave it away a couple of times but you can't ask much more of them than a clean sheet. Gus looked like he'd been out for 2/3 months not 1 game.

Allround a bit meh!