FA Cup: Walsall 2-1 Bolton

Sluffy - can we watch the game on 'X' ????

If so how?

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terenceanne wrote:Sluffy - can we watch the game on 'X' ????

If so how?

I don't think you can live stream on Twitter?

So I doubt you can watch in on Twitter/X

People will video the goals from Sky and embed them into a tweet - and those are the clips I sometimes put up on here.

Sluffy wrote:

terenceanne wrote:Sluffy - can we watch the game on 'X' ????

If so how?

I don't think you can live stream on Twitter?

So I doubt you can watch in on Twitter/X

People will video the goals from Sky and embed them into a tweet - and those are the clips I sometimes put up on here.

Sluffy’s correct unfortunately.

Ian Evatt was disappointed with Wanderers’ cup exit at Walsall – but says focus must remain on the League One promotion chase.

After making five changes at the Bescot Stadium, Josh Sheehan’s second-half free kick seemed to have put the Whites into a good position against their League Two opponents.

But poor defending just four minutes later allowed ex-Bolton defender Liam Gordon to grab an equaliser, and Walsall went on to force a winner in the final minute through Jamie Jellis.

“I think second half they made it difficult for us, first half an hour we were excellent,” Evatt said.

“Tuesday we took our chances but today we didn’t. We should have been out of sight.

“They are a team which is going well, they have a distinctive way of playing, very direct, lot of forward runners, a bit like Stevenage. And we just didn’t cope with it well enough, we didn’t do the basics, and after getting ourselves ahead to concede from a long ball, not matched up and tracking players, giving them freedom in the box, it is just not acceptable.

“Then the second ball, a turnover, long counter-attack, they out-run us to get to the ball first, which is frustrating and disappointing. But the biggest positive today is no more injuries because we just can’t afford to lose any more.

“We had to give Rico a game off, we can’t risk him. We had to rest the front three who had been doing well in the league. I am disappointed but we have to concentrate and focus now on what is a really big game coming up on Saturday.”

Evatt had announced prior to the game that he would be making changes – and brought Scott Arfield, Klaidi Lolos, Dion Charles, Randall Williams and Will Forrester back into the side, resting centre-half Ricardo Santos.

But he insists changing the team was a necessary evil, with eight senior players currently unavailable going into next weekend’s crucial clash at Stockport County.

He said: “It is not about pointing fingers at the ones who came in. We are a group and we celebrate together when we win, and we suffer together when we lose.

“We have given it our best. I could have played a lot more changes and played more of the youngsters because the league is the most important thing for us.

“I thought the fans were magnificent, got behind the team second half in particular, but just as we were getting to grips with it again and pressing forwards, we concede on the break.

Evatt is also confident there will be no knock-on effect to league form after the cup exit.

“These cup games are games in isolation,” he said. “We have found some good form in the league, good rhythm, and we changed things around today to try and rest and recover some of the ones who are crucial to is in the midst of an injury crisis.

“We just know if we can get through the game on Saturday we have bodies returning that can make us incredibly stronger.”

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Mat Sadler was proud of his Walsall side after coming from behind to knock Wanderers out of the FA Cup.

Sadler had challenged his players to get on the front foot before the game and was delighted with their approach from the off against the Whites.

“It was a proper FA Cup game,” he told the club channels. “I thought we started really well, right on the front foot as we wanted to be.

“Then there was a period where Bolton really looked a good team, and they are a good team. You know they are going to have spells in the game and that was their spell, but we came out the other side of that and finished the first half strongly.

“That was the message to the lads because - barring that 15-minute spell - I thought it was a proper FA Cup tie with two good teams and with us in the ascendancy, having chances and being on the front foot.

“I knew before the game the quality that (Josh Sheehan) has, he is a fantastic football player. I am screaming at the fourth official to move the free kick back because I know that position is pretty much where he would have wanted to put the ball down.

“We had a big wall but he showed his quality there. To turn it around in the way we did and just continue to be us… I said before the game we wanted to make memories and we have done it again today.

“I am so proud of everyone connected with the football club because that was an incredible team performance.”

Liam Gordon got on the scoresheet against his former club with an emphatic finish moments after Sheehan’s opener.

“I am buzzing for Liam because coming up against one of your old clubs, your old manager, there is always that little bit of extra that you want to show what you are about,” Sadler continued.

“It was a cracking finish and I am buzzing for him to get that moment, especially in front of the supporters.

“You could think, ‘It’s 1-1, let’s see the game out and try to work our way to penalties’. But the group don’t believe in that and we wanted to be on the front foot again.”

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I never want Bolton to lose but if we are going to lose then best it's in the first round of the Cup and save ourselves all those unnecessary cup games we ending up playing last season.

Well done Walsall (and the two ex-Wanderers in the side - Gordon (who scored their first goal) and Earing), best of luck in the nest round.

Like most not bothered about going out of the cup - still a concern about being outplayed by a lower division team considering we had a fairly strong team out.
Anyway onwards...

terenceanne wrote:Like most not bothered about going out of the cup - still a concern about being outplayed by a lower division team considering we had a fairly strong team out.
Anyway onwards...

Like you TA not especially bothered about going out but once again it’s a chance missed to give one or two of our young players a run out in the first team to measure how they get on, especially when our first team players are performing so poorly. Williams in particular struggled second half so why not replace him with Matheson and likewise Cogley at Centre Back who could have been swapped for Inwood who looked good when he came in recently. I know he’s left footed but at least he’s a proper central defender and what good experience it would have been for him. Let’s just hope they don’t play like that at Stockport next week?

To be honest I'm not sure of the rules anymore - maybe we had to play a certain number of players who appeared in our last league match because at one time teams used make ten or eleven changes to play the full reserve team and save the first team for their next league game?

And Matheson is clearly not good enough otherwise by now he would be in the squad at least (he isn't and we have a vacant place - which should tell you something).

He'll be gone at the end of the season.

Having watched the highlights I must admit that Sheehan's free kick was spectacular.

Goal of the season right there for me!