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"...but considering the subs were on for 30 mins and we didn't trouble the keeper once, I don't agree that we would definitely have won with those starting".
Spot on. The subs had plenty of time to make a difference.
It's a long season, with taxing midweek games some weeks, so we are sure to need to call on some of the players who now don't make our strengthened starting eleven. They need some game time, rather than being thrown into the starting line-up having had no proper football.
I think the manager is also experimenting with different ways to play. We might need to vary things in the course of the season.
My perception is that Oxford were very negative and that their ploy worked.
I don't think we were awful because we did mostly look very solid at the back, but we created so little. I thought Frey brought others into the game well but the downside of having him on is the lack of pace up front. Kone had a quiet game, I thought.
This season's whipping boy Sam Field is getting criticised but I think it was him who executed a crucial last ditch double block, the second time with his face.
It wasn't a great performance but even bringing on all those attacking subs didn't yield any gilt-edged chances plus that is the sort of scenario in which we often lose.
The squad looks the strongest it has been for a long while but I still don't think it will *easily* beat many teams. It's not yet that good and the division is full of determined and very well organised teams.
Di Carmine is still playing, at Serie C outfit Livorno. He has team mates called Moses and Jesus Christ - yes, honestly - and also plays with another Samuel and two Samueles.
Di Carmine actually got 14 goals last season, for Trento.
If narcolepsy hasn't already struck you down, bear with me, because the best bit is coming: His current team have three nicknames, the last of which is wonderful :
Gli Amaranto (transl. The Dark Reds) I Labronici (transl. The Livornians) Le Triglie (transl. The Mullets).
What a lovely trip down the rabbit hole I have had today .
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