I don't know what all this wingeing about Kamara is. I've seen him at Bournemouth and Millwall and hes turned in 2 man of the match performances. He had the ball 6 times in the first 20 minutes. From 3 of them he produced good crosses which we should/could have scored from, from 2 of them he was fouled and won us free kicks in valuable positions, he won a corner from the other. However, the telling moment was when he picked up the ball on the half way line and left 3 Millwall players in his trail. As at Bmouth, from then on the defenders were scared witless.

Keogh had a torrid first 5 minutes looking yards off the pace and hopelessly out of position...he looked suspiciously like McCoombe returned. However, after that he settled to turn in an excellent performance, to outshine Clarke who was having one of those days when he didn't seemed to be able to get off the ground.

While we never dominated the match I thought we always looked more of a threat. However, with 9 men behind the ball most of the time, the threat was pretty bare. Millwalls main approach seemed to be to bang it forward for their two front man. Both of them looked smaller than Clarke and Keogh, but they seemed to win most of the ball. Their other threat came down the right flank where Skarz and Brandon looked a weak combination. Brandon covered the ground ok to get back to support Skarz but his tackling is so lightweight the Millwall right flankers were having a field day.

This resulted in the first goal just before half time. Around the edge of the box outwide three Town players Sklarz, Brandon and Holdsworth all closed the same player down. He rolled it back to a colleague who put in an excellent far post cross, where Clarke was flat footed and easily outjumped by the opposing centre half Robinson.

Now comes the funny bit. The bloke behind me was constantly berating Glennon for not getting off his line. Town won a free kick for offside. Keogh spotted Boothy 50 yards away in space out left towards the edge of the Millwall box. I was right behind it and it looked a goal all the way from leaving Keogh's boot. The goal rushed out into no mans land and Boothy nodded it over him from the edge of the box ... classic.

Halftime

10 minutes into the half I wondered what happened if Kamara actually got the ball in tight space in the box. 12 minutes into the half he did, shimmied round a couple of Millwall defenders and hit a glorious strike with the outside of his right foot. I don't think we'll see many better goals this weekend.

For the rest of the game we got nine behind the ball again ... and, as at Bournemouth, held on without a vast amount of problem.

Oh we played a pretty orthodox 4-4-2 with Kamara on the right.

By Richard Holt from the HTFC mailing list.