Will Evans

That would be my honest conclusion at half-time.

Sam, I've gone through the match report and I've got here big Will Evans header miss.

Does that mean anything to you?

I mean, he was throwing himself at most things.

And I don't know why they did that because they...

Yeah, they signed their own death warrants, really, because what Evans is very good at is that.

Now, you will have seen when we went away to Leicester, actually, if you were to critique Will Evans on anything, it's once you've done that, what do you do with it? But again, the opposition here, you know, Evans is at a level above that.

So...

We've been lacking a bit of quality on transition.

When you win the ball back as many times as Will Evans does with his pressing work, we need to show a little bit more quality and Ronan's goal was a nice piece of that.

All in all, a good day and a nice occasion for the opponents

as well.

Hopefully he can keep his place for many weeks to come because we do look a lot more dangerous.

Will Evans, again...

Again, we can't question his work rate, can we? He's here, there, everywhere, putting in tackles.

But he's just terrible on the ball.

I thought the performance was probably better than Cambridge overall, but we just didn't have any firepower at top.

Pepe looked quite exposed today.

He had two or three round him and I don't think him and Evans were close enough, but playing in the three, it's a bit difficult.

I think all the wide players should have probably got a bit closer and a bit more central to play off each other, especially when we go and direct up the pitch.

They haven't been playing that well, to be honest, but they have been somehow coming back into games.

They didn't hear Will Evans.

What does he do? He runs and he runs and he runs and he runs.

He ran in behind, went round Eastwood, got taken down.

Obviously, you defend as a collective, but we do look a little bit soft against well-seasoned and quality forwards.

We saw it with Jadon Wareham on Tuesday night, and the likes of Will Evans and the lad, Ben Pebble, just getting punished by really quality strikers and forwards.

it is a learning process they're a young side and we just look like we lack a little bit of leadership and experience at the back line would you agree with that?

Yeah I think that's right I think I mean Kel Watts has certainly stepped up but you need everybody to step up because you know United have come up a level and we clearly had a very very good defence at League 2 level we had the best defence in the league but we are looking shaky We are looking vulnerable at the back.

I'm thinking of, I'm sure he'll come on to it, but the third goal is like Watts is definitely in a free role, like a 10.

And Evans is part of a two.

But Amici was starting the game and he was doing his best stuff out wide with crosses and beating players.

So I'm not sure.

Do you remember Mitchell had one at the...

There was a little ball from White, wasn't there? And Mitchell kind of did really well and got it back across.

Did Evans...

He got a shot off, didn't he? But it was slightly behind him.

They just weren't controlling their areas really well.

I think Evans was trying to be here, there and everywhere.

He may have been in the tea room at one point and back out again, but he wasn't where he was supposed to have been up front.

And we couldn't hit the barn door, I think, at the moment.

I still think the squad as a whole is a lot stronger than last season.

Obviously, we're missing Tolly's goals, which obviously was a massive task in itself to try and replace.

Obviously, I don't think Evans is that man to get us the goals.

I still think at the end of the season, he will contribute.

I would've said from the eye test it, I would've probably guessed it would've been even more than that but think their XG was about three, ours was about a half and I don't really see, like apart from the whats, I don't really see where we even got a half from to be honest.

I think maybe Evans had, Evans had one half-decent header.

Uh, yeah.

Sec- yeah, second goal just after half time.

He does just run around everywhere and is a bit headless with it.

Yeah, love that, love that comment.

Um, Will Evans probably showed yesterday he can trap a football further than I can kick it, if that's not a bit too harsh.

Um, yeah, game to forget I'm afraid.

For me, he does cover a lot of ground.

I think there's a comment in the chat there, Will Evans, nothing but work rate.

I mean, he does work his nuts off.

He's always working hard.

You have to find a way to dominate your opponent, to win the game, to be effective in the game.

We had a lot more questions than answers today and that's staff included as well.

Yeah, let's do the Will Evans post-match quickly as well.

Another two-minute one.