Post Match: City 0 - 1 Cardiff

[Kopfkino]

Fair play to Cardiff, play ugly but deserved the win today. We were totally inept. 

[st albans fox]

Keep allowing shots from outside the box and eventually you will pay ..... we allowed them plenty of chances to shoot and nearly got away with it ....  think we would have learned after the past month or so .....

[Beechey]

5 minutes ago, Sir Shep said:

Just on the booing, was it more a case of booing the substitution rather than the player?

They jeer him every time he goes off as well.

[Finnegan]

Absolutely awful. 

 

I'll probably trigger the huge in fight here but the sooner he goes the better. 

 

Chelsea and Man City two absolutely brilliant results back to our best, playing our way, playing solid, counter attacking, smash and grab football. 

 

Today, back to standard Claudeball. Getting bored of saying it now, you cannot play passing, possession football if nobody is going to move. It is all about movement. 

 

Maddison, forget the penalty, he should never have been given it in the first place, but he spent half the game next to Vardy on the shoulder of the last defender waiting for play to come to him. 

 

What are you doing, man!? Watch Bernardo Silva the other night against us, he's the pivot. He's there to run the game, so he's constantly moving towards the ball carrier to provide an option and keep the ball moving. 

 

Nobody plays that role for us. 

 

I think after a few months of Puel, you have every right to blame the players for not adapting or not being capable of playing his system. 

 

After a full year of his coaching and leadership when players still don't have a clue how to play a possession system and move and create chances, that's where the buck stops with the manager. 

 

Nobody is learning or getting any better. Whatever he does, they don't understand, it isn't working. 

 

We look great playing our old way, his way? Narh. 

Edited 29 December 2018 by Finnegan

[Sionnach gorm]

How in the hell do we beat Man city and lose to these blokes?  Befuddling!  

[The Guvnor]

It was just a Lack lustre performance, (and that includes the penalty)  and win or lose that is not acceptable.

[ealingfox]

It was written

 

That's so Leicester it hurts.

 

No more penalties from Maddderrrzzzz please.

[Ric Flair]

We didnt play that badly but it was plainly obvious that we were going to continue to be frustrated sticking with the 4-2-3-1 and Ndidi and Mendy together, it was painful at times.

 

Our subs weakened us whilst not changing the way we played either, fair enough make subs but get two in the box and Maddison deeper to create something. It was just horrible at the end.

 

So annoying, we have to find a long term strategy to break shit like Cardiff down at home. Our squad needs strengthening and if he refuses to do that this month then its curtains for him.

[m4DD0gg]

8 minutes ago, Vacamion said:

 

 

Bob.

 

Not Puel’s fault, although he will doubtless be blamed in here.  Conceding a late loser was pretty predictable as the game wore on.

 

Well played Cardiff, they executed their game plan, stifled our threat, rode their luck and deserved to win in the end.

 

Those six points last week were precious.  Clubs around us did not win, and we are still doing well in the table.

 

Who knows what we’ll get away at Everton.

 

And once again, booing our own player as he came on was utterly, utterly moronic.  Shame on those who did so.

 

 

Yeh I guess you were not at the match. 

 

One up from two dm's and appalling use of substitutions says it was his fault. 

[Sir Shep]

1 minute ago, Beechey said:

They jeer him every time he goes off as well.

Well that is out of order then. 

[Beechey]

1 minute ago, Sionnach gorm said:

How in the hell do we beat Man city and lose to these blokes?  Befuddling!  

Because we were the Cardiff in that game. We sat everyone behind the ball and countered. We can't do that here.

 

Our players just aren't good enough.

[ealingfox]

Had a bit of luck in the last 2 and didn't get it today. That's football really.

 

Bloody Warnock

 

[somebum]

Yet again proof that even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut. Normal service resumed. Is this guy the most boring git we have ever had down here or what

[Tringfox]

We are consistently inconsistent! 

[Larry_LCFC]

I'm sorry but if we can't break down Cardiff at home, then Puel has to take responsibility for that. We will never achieve anything if we can't win these games. 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

As said in other thread Puel can **** off, so fed up of his teams inability to break teams down and all the dropped points at home. I actually wish we'd lost to Chelsea and City so he'd be gone now 

[The Blur]

Many things to feel annoyed about.   I know lot on here are slating Ghezzal but I honesty think he is a better option than Gray going forward,   he just need to improve his decision making at times but his erratic decision making is lot better than Gray's non-existent decision making .   I am done with Gray,  he has reached his plateau and is not the same player when he first signed.  Maddison despite his penalty miss was our best player-  it is shame that Vardy and Albrighton was off boil today otherwise we could have looked better going forward however we sorely needed an extra body in the attack today.  

 

PLEASE PLEASE STOP PLAYING NDIDI/MENDY AGAINST STRUGGLING TEAMS AT HOME!

[UniFox21]

One of the worst footballing teams I have ever seen in the prem. Genuinely, they didn't deserve to take that win. 

 

Did not deserve to lose that game at all, blinding display from their Keeper kept them in that. 

[hebangsthedrums]

1 minute ago, The Blur said:

Many things to feel annoyed about.   I know lot on here are slating Ghezzal but I honesty think he is a better option than Gray going forward,   he just need to improve his decision making at times but his erratic decision making is lot better than Gray's non-existent decision making .   I am done with Gray,  he has reached his plateau and is not the same player when he first signed.  Maddison despite his penalty miss was our best player-  it is shame that Vardy and Albrighton was off boil today otherwise we could have looked better going forward however we sorely needed an extra body in the attack today.  

 

PLEASE PLEASE STOP PLAYING NDIDI/MENDY AGAINST STRUGGLING TEAMS AT HOME!

Maddison our best player??? 

Our best attacking threats are our full backs most of the time now. He hopefully will develop but he's a couple of notches over a show pony at the moment. 

[peterborofox]

2 minutes ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

As said in other thread Puel can **** off, so fed up of his teams inability to break teams down and all the dropped points at home. I actually wish we'd lost to Chelsea and City so he'd be gone now 

Said this at the time.

 

He always gets results when he needs it. 

 

Shouldn't be deflecting away from the fact we play awful football especially at home. Want him gone now, but don't think will happen

[Grebfromgrebland]

We miss Mahrez. That bit of magic. They had a bit of magic and they won the game.

[KingKoala]

Our SBs can go forward more with 433 so I want us to play with that not 4231..even against so called lesser sides..

[LiberalFox]

The thing that I find frustrating about Puel is the aversion to strikers. We have an aging Vardy and that is all. Iheanacho isn't good enough. Okazaki is past it. 

[TMELcfc]

8 minutes ago, Kopfkino said:

Fair play to Cardiff, play ugly but deserved the win today. We were totally inept. 

Too often the case

[mozartfox]

Kylie Minogue has more up front than we do.   We need another striker and more creativity in midfield.   Can Barnes doing any worse than what we have now at our disposal?  Probably not. So how about giving WBA a call now.

 

We cannot trust this Recruitment Team/ Manager with any money in this window.