Halifax (H) Thread

[DaggerJoel11]

The first Friday night game at Victoria Road in nigh-on a decade sees the visit of a Halifax Town side with the exactly the same record of having won, drawn and lost one, while scoring and conceding three, albeit from a harder opening sequence it must be said.

Known for their robust defence, it could be a similar dynamic to Tuesday where we were allowed more possession than usual, except this time hopefully don't run out of ideas quite so easily. They're always difficult to play against, with last season's meetings bringing a goalless draw at their place and 1-0 defeat here despite largely dominating.

Would hope to see some changes to our lineup. Hill and Morias both looked well below the heights they can hit. The latter will probably vacate the centre forward spot with Grego-Cox back available, maybe even moving back to the left where Strevens seems to like him. Or we could see Remy, who's deserved more than just nine minutes plus stoppages after being our most impressive performer throughout pre-season. Rendall has been untouchable at right-back even though it's not his natural position and he's been suspect there, so I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to see Vincent and Ling as the full backs, maybe even Rutherford introduced.

We could do with something here ahead of a tough week facing Southend and York.

Our last three
Daggers 2-1 Wealdstone (Rees, Pereira)
Rochdale 1-1 Daggers (Pereira)
Woking 1-0 Daggers

Halifax last three
Halifax 2-1 Barnet (Cooke, Alimi-Adetoro)
Halifax 0-1 Aldershot
Halifax 1-1 Gateshead (Senior)

Head to head
24/02/24 - Daggers 0-1 Halifax
26/09/23 - Halifax 0-0 Daggers
22/04/23 - Daggers 0-0 Halifax
22/10/22 - Halifax 2-0 Daggers
29/01/22 - Daggers 1-3 Halifax

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Very disappointing as should have won, a few chances in the second half to add to our goal and paid the price in the end. We need to finish teams off when we are on top.

[stanton101]

If ever we needed a striker tonight was it.
All over a very poor Halifax side but simply can't score and then out of the blue they knock one in, in the last few minutes.
Morias is not the answer Ben, sooner the better you realise that the better we'll be.
I'd like to say it was a fair result but in truth it was robbery how Halifax knicked a point.

[RM1Dagger]

Yep, can't remember a game like that for a while where I can't believe we didn't win (and unbelievably could have lost at the death). Like Woking on Tues they never looked like scoring but that's the price you pay for not killing a team off. Thought we were good overall.

[Danamite]

I wish Inih Effiong was still here.

[Dagdale]

A bit frustrating that we couldn't kill it off with a 2nd but that was a pretty entertaining game, end to end stuff and a good run up performance ready to take on the Shrimpers, just hope Ryan Hill gets fit for that? Certainly our defending is getting quite strong and special mention to Super Tom Eastman and Trent Rendall thought them two really shone!

[Diggerthedog]

Incredibly frustrating not to win that, probably would have done had we had a fully fit striker who can hold the ball up to help relieve pressure as when we’re under the cosh we have no plan b, last 10 last night prime example. The injury to Hess really puts a spanner in the works until he’s back as you don’t want to move Rees further back, probably looking at Vincent going back in the middle and ling coming in to left back.

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I wish Inih Effiong was still here.

He can't be very good at the moment as been dropped to bench for today's game.