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95th minute. But only 3 minutes stoppage time.

Keith Stroud gives a penalty for a foul outside the box...

Would love it if he at least attempted to try something different. Even Rodgers wasn't this stubborn. Part of being a good manager (at the very least) is to be adaptable but still maintain any core principles. Right now he's just making us suffer to prevent his own pride diminishing. You can still play possession based football but mix it up a bit either in the game or from game to game. We're just doing the same thing over and over again now expecting a different result but not getting them. And that's what leads to results like last night. It was clear from parts of the first half and definitely soon after second half started that our tactic was being nullified and just wasn't working. He made the triple change eventually but he needed to be bolder. I fear Maresca is so risk-averse he won't ever gamble on something mildly different. For a side that had such a good defensive record for majority of the season, we've now conceded 9 in 11 games. Even if he wanted to stick with the formation, there's a time to perhaps go back to basics and keep things simple, for example don't allow your CBs to go bombing forward and leave a big gaping hole in a defence which isn't blessed with pace. Don't be so perfectionist and hope for the exquisite goal after X amount of passes - develop a more 'shoot on sight' policy. We have the players that are capable, but we don't use them. At least mix it up a bit and make things less predicable for the opposition.

Unbelievable refereeing. Linesman should be seeing that it's outside the box if he doesn't see the handball. Rubbish.

West Brom just got a penalty for the ball hitting a players head outside the box

Yep, bodes well for us at the moment in that they have something to play for.

Just needs another person walking in ahead of them as Ipswich to complete it

Not necessarily, considering other teams have also dropped enough points to not be better than us. So if anything, it just emphasises a) how well we did in the first half of the season and b) how badly other teams are doing/have done. It's shambolic by our own standards, but I wouldn't say we don't deserve promotion because of it.

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Surround him with better/creative players and he'll flourish. Overall he's been superb. Had a bit of a patch where he became ineffective but could have been a factor of fatigue or other players missing. He and Ricardo form a great partnership in midfield.

This guy needs a break out of the side. Not only for his own good but give Coady more of a regular chance in the team?

Coventry could easily win all their games barring the Ipswich one, hope Norwich lose enough to get to 6th, and then we don't win enough. It's not like it's only Coventry vs Ipswich as the only fixture left.

It's up there. Although, maybe not stressful considering how far we blasted ahead up to Jan/Feb. It's perhaps one of the most frustrating considering the situation we find ourselves in though. Frustrating that we just haven't finished the job off and piling on the pressure on ourselves for no reason.

He did better than vs Sunderland to be fair. So if we're looking for improvement he's on the right trajectory. Honeyman should have been sent off for the early tackle on Yunus though.

The one vs Leeds sometimes still irks me. Not a sitter. But definitely one you expect a striker at this level to score. Or at least hit the target.

If we did win it'd at least make the weekend a bit comfier having a 4pt cushion over Leeds and putting the pressure back on them for their Blackburn game.. But it just seems so inevitable we'll miss this chance once again to make a bit of space between us and 3rd again (on the basis Ipswich win tomorrow).

Yep. All so predictable these days isn't it.

Leeds should have had two penalties as well. Be fuming if we didn't get them in our game.

Shouldn't be anywhere near the squad on Friday.

Was clearly knackered as the game wore on and he became less and less effective. But even before that, he had to do something different, but part of that comes from Enzo refusing to budge from his tactic or change things to help him out. Was crowded out by Millwall and therefore became less than useless.

Decent odds for Plymouth to win...

But he has a job to finish the chances! He's so bad.

Even more pressure on this game given today's result. Could have had a bit of breathing space over Leeds if we won tonight. And playing before them this weekend. I can't imagine we'll win either regardless. Away at a relegation-threatened side that need the points? Nah, we'll fvck it up. Too easy to play against and Plymouth have a few decent players, at least more than Millwall.

He's injured isn't he?