King's Lynn v Chester match thread

3-0 to The Men from Bumpers Lane.
Attendance 904; 153 CFC supporters.

King’s Lynn 1-1 Chester. Caton

107 Blues

0-1 peers again

120 Chester

Going for KL 1 - 2 Chester
Peers & Caton

Is Roberts injured or suspended?

No midfielders on the bench, with Murray out injured.

Looks a very attacking team that.

Match thread as lively as the game by sounds of it...

An ok result basically. A bit disappointing that we can't win games like this but if we can keep solid on the road and do OK against the teams around us it's fine. Not sure I'd have liked to make that journey for what sounded like a dull 0-0.

These are the games that we need to find a way to win, a scrappy 1-0 will do me just fine. Wasn't a particularly good game to be honest but yet another clean sheet & 7 points from a possible 9 with three clean sheets is still very good. Maintain that form & we'll definitely finish in the playoffs. 🙂

Dull match.

We had all the ball in the first half but struggled to create anything meaningful. Even second half with a few half chances for both sides later on.

Don't know why he took Okeke off, was the most likely to do something.

Must be one of the shortest match threads we’ve ever had on here, but the fact we’re still on the first page sums things up because there really isn’t a lot to say. As dull a game as you could imagine, which neither side particularly deserved to win - not our worst performance of the season, but surely our most forgettable. King’s Lynn looked a far cry from the swashbuckling outfit we’re used to seeing - save for the vastly-experienced Coulson, their squad has been totally gutted of quality even since our last meeting in August, and they had very little to offer other than physicality and aimless long balls - but we were barely able to test them and seemed content to play into their hands, either by doing our usual trick of passing it around on the edge of the area until the move inevitably peters out, or by lumping it forward in the hope of forcing an error from defenders against whom our strikers were never going to win many aerial battles. Think of the game at Telford last Boxing Day to give you some kind of idea.

No doubt there’d be more of a meltdown if this result had come a few games earlier, during that mini-barren run, but I imagine most of us would’ve taken four points from these two away games. I also get the impression that there hasn’t been a stronger reaction because we’re all simply so used to us failing to win these sort of fixtures, against opponents happy to sit back and slow the game down, and are beginning to come to an acceptance that it’s something we may never be able to totally remedy. If we make the playoffs then a result like this will pale into insignificance, though by all means it’s not something we can particularly afford to replicate often while our place in the top seven is still far from assured - so let’s hope it’s back to winning ways next weekend against Banbury.