Livingston 2-1 Dumbarton
Posted in Dumbarton FC at 12:00 on 1 October 2017
SPFL Tier 2, Almondvale Stadium, 30/9/17.
On another day we would have won this.
We started quite brightly but they soon came into it. By the time they scored I felt it had been coming. For the rest of the first half we showed nothing – not even a shot on target in the whole half. Froxy looked a good player with the ball at his feet but sometimes wanting defensively. Their goal was another lost to a set piece. That needs sorted.
Second half was a different story. We dominated it with Tom Walsh skinning their right back almost at will. Unfortunately his crosses were not met by any of our players. Christian Nade did have a header that crashed off the bar and cruelly bounced off the line. In the meantime Livi had begun the time-wasting early.
In the end Tom Walsh did it all by himself, again taking the right back to the cleaners before his shot beat the keeper. From our angle it looked like he’d chucked it in but there may have been a deflection.
For a while after that we looked very lively and Walsh again tried to beat the keeper at his near post but this time he saved it.
Livi came out of their shell and started to threaten. If they’d played like that the whole half they might have found the game a lot more comfortable.
Communication at the back seems a problem for us. It was an attempted header backwards that undid us, their forward pouncing on it to head home.
From then on Livi’s time-wasting was even more blatant.
A frustrating day in the end. Two, or even three, points lost.
