Bristol City (H) - Post-Match Thread

[Drink Water]

1 hour ago, ARM1968 said:

What is the metric we are judging by? When will we know it has completely clicked?

When we start to batter teams.

[WigstonWanderer]

Wilf having the time of his life in his new role

[StriderHiryu]

 

 

I knew they were good on the day, but Fatawu and Ndidi really had great games today, at the heart of a lot of what was good about us. Everyone is rightly praising Ndidi, there's so much he did that was so good in this game:

• Pass through the pocket for Fatawu where he almost finds Vardy.
• Plays a dummy (!) to leave it for Fatawu.
• Played a great cross for Vardy who almost scored.
• Backheeled it (!) for Fatawu to cross it in.
• Wins the penalty.

That's just in these clips, he did even more than that in the game and should have scored himself. I actually feel a bit sorry for Casadei and Praet who would have thought they were ahead of him in the pecking order!

[Dan]

1-0 totally flattered them. We're looking really impressive. Lower league obviously but it's hard not to be excited when we're clearly going in the right direction again.

[sacreblueits442]

59 minutes ago, Drink Water said:

When we start to batter teams.

...what if it has clicked already and the proof is buried in our constant inability to be efficient in the final third!!!

The amount of poor decisions we have taken whilst pressing for a goal and outnumbering teams on a break, only to choose the wrong pass, has been a feature of our play for quite a few seasons.

    If that is the metric that we are using, then we may be a lot further forward than you think.

[Fear Of The Fox]

48 minutes ago, Drink Water said:

When we start to batter teams.

This exactly. Plymouth did it against Norwich. I understand though it won't be that easy. The majority of the teams we'll play have the mentality of a FA Cup final against a PL team or treat the games as if Barcelona got relegated to the 2nd division. Why this happens is simple:

- Some of our players are without a doubt PL quality and right now there's a growing feeling most of these players were let down by bad management and tactics. 

- Manager. Even though the tactical approach is still a bit unproven after just 8 games I can't recall if any other team tried to play this kind of football in Championship. Enzo is trying to be the Guardiola of Championship. Yes he's miles away from achieving it so far. A forward prolific finisher and a proper 10 are what he needs to achieve it. Unfortunately Leeds managed to sign one of them under the name of Piroe. 

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

It sounds stupid, but it is easier for other teams to score more. It is very clear all teams are parking a bus against us and it is difficult for our players to find a way though. I reckon we will win a lot this season, but expect a lot to be 1-0. Whether it is premier league or non league, 11 players behind the ball is 11 physics bodies behind the ball. 

[burleighfox]

9 hours ago, Bilo said:

I honestly think someone's coming to us and getting battered by six or more in the next few weeks.

It'd be nice but I think we'll see a large majority of teams come to The KP shut up shop and sit deep which will prove difficult to batter in terms of goals. Happy to be proven wrong of course but signs at the moment suggest we can't quite kill off the more defensive and limited approach minded sides. 

[Jimbo]

3 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

 

 

I knew they were good on the day, but Fatawu and Ndidi really had great games today, at the heart of a lot of what was good about us. Everyone is rightly praising Ndidi, there's so much he did that was so good in this game:

• Pass through the pocket for Fatawu where he almost finds Vardy.
• Plays a dummy (!) to leave it for Fatawu.
• Played a great cross for Vardy who almost scored.
• Backheeled it (!) for Fatawu to cross it in.
• Wins the penalty.

That's just in these clips, he did even more than that in the game and should have scored himself. I actually feel a bit sorry for Casadei and Praet who would have thought they were ahead of him in the pecking order!

Wilf is playing that well, I'd completely forgotten about Praet, he'd been totally wiped from my memory. 

[Skid_1884]

7 hours ago, StanSP said:

Superb. 

 

Especially at the end, loved that moment as they all had their individual time to go to the fans and thank them, and vice versa. The Pearson cheers were probably the loudest. Him being able to do that even after a loss was very heart-warming. And then the King song after the rapturous applause for he and James was great. 

Glad I left dead on the final whistle then

[Beachyboy]

5 hours ago, HesNotGudjonsonn2 said:

It sounds stupid, but it is easier for other teams to score more. It is very clear all teams are parking a bus against us and it is difficult for our players to find a way though. I reckon we will win a lot this season, but expect a lot to be 1-0. Whether it is premier league or non league, 11 players behind the ball is 11 physics bodies behind the ball. 

Which may see the slightly bigger scores against our rivals such as PNE, Ipswich, Leeds, Southampton rather than battering the lower league teams such as Rotherham, Qpr. Sheffield Wednesday could take a battering tho they look a bit lost.

[HighPeakFox]

2 hours ago, Skid_1884 said:

Glad I left dead on the final whistle then

Congratulations.

[FoxesFan#1]

It’s looking likely we might well get more points on the road this season as teams open up more in their home fixture.

 

Tbh I’ve enjoyed the positivity in what I’ve seen in my two home games of Hull + Bristol City far more than the past two seasons even though both games were hard.

[Tommy Fresh]

3 hours ago, Skid_1884 said:

Glad I left dead on the final whistle then

Weird

[PhillippaT]

3 hours ago, Skid_1884 said:

Glad I left dead on the final whistle then

When's the funeral?  Not gonna make it myself though, you know...  

[foxfanazer]

3 hours ago, Skid_1884 said:

Glad I left dead on the final whistle then

I'm glad you did too 

[Jobyfox]

3 hours ago, Skid_1884 said:

Glad I left dead on the final whistle then

 

[casablancas]

What is with the need for us to ‘batter’ others. Couldn’t care less with 1-0 for the remainder of the season. It’s the points that matter. As a few have said, it’s not easy to break down 11 with no intention of attacking intent. It’s why Fatawu and Mavadidi could be imperative. Teams will come with the intent of just sitting and not adventuring onto our half. Enzo had said something similar. We will score multiple against teams and other like yesterday we may nick it by the one. 

[Lionator]

6 hours ago, burleighfox said:

It'd be nice but I think we'll see a large majority of teams come to The KP shut up shop and sit deep which will prove difficult to batter in terms of goals. Happy to be proven wrong of course but signs at the moment suggest we can't quite kill off the more defensive and limited approach minded sides. 

Yep more likely to get 5 or 6 away from home.

[Lionator]

Really boring thought but the referee was really good yesterday compared to some of the other numpties we’ve had. He played advantage really well. 

[The Doctor]

6 hours ago, burleighfox said:

It'd be nice but I think we'll see a large majority of teams come to The KP shut up shop and sit deep which will prove difficult to batter in terms of goals. Happy to be proven wrong of course but signs at the moment suggest we can't quite kill off the more defensive and limited approach minded sides. 

And that's the point of it not quite clicking yet. The reason we didn't take brizzle to the cleaners yesterday on the scoresheet was because the decision making wasn't quite there yet: KDH and Mavididi still shooting when they should pass and passing when they should shoot. Lot of cutbacks that were just into a rough area. As we play more in this system, players will grasp where each other are and are supposed to be, at which point more and more chances in terms of actual shots (we got into lots of good shooting positions yesterday but gave them up because the final decision wasn't the right one) and will absolutely muller sides 

[Jimbo]

8 hours ago, Drink Water said:

When we start to batter teams.

This is going to be the result of whether or not the squad have completely "clicked" I mean, it would be nice to see, but it's not going to happen every week. In terms of domination of possession, we're doing this pretty much every week already. 

 

There will be games, like Hull, that the result won't go out way, there will be the perfect smash and grab from one of our opponents at the KP.

 

I think we'll know if it's 100% clicked or not when the decision making in the final 1/3 has improved. Right now, we seem to do everything right, up until we get to the oppo's box. At the moment we look dangerous most times we go forward, without looking too dangerous, if you can get what I'm saying. 

[Guest Lcfc82]

21 minutes ago, casablancas said:

What is with the need for us to ‘batter’ others. Couldn’t care less with 1-0 for the remainder of the season. It’s the points that matter. As a few have said, it’s not easy to break down 11 with no intention of attacking intent. It’s why Fatawu and Mavadidi could be imperative. Teams will come with the intent of just sitting and not adventuring onto our half. Enzo had said something similar. We will score multiple against teams and other like yesterday we may nick it by the one. 

I wouldn’t say we need to be battering teams but it would be nice to turn the dominance into a more comfortable win.

At 1-0 we are always a poor pass / mistake from letting the opposition in. Could of easily happened yesterday.

[fox_favourite]

24 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Really boring thought but the referee was really good yesterday compared to some of the other numpties we’ve had. He played advantage really well. 

Yup, couldn't argue with many decisions, but let's face it, it's not too hard considering the dress we've seen so far 

[lcfcsnow]

We’re not going to batter anyone as since pre season we seem to willingly turn down attacking opportunities and it’s still happening. I’ve seen us go back to defence from a corner, free kicks in the attacking third and when a pass is on to someone in acres down the wing many times.

 

We also don’t have the right players in attacking areas to score goals. Neither Vardy or Iheanacho are suited to the way we’re playing, Wilf and KDH as good as they’ve been in certain areas they are not scoring us goals, both have only scored in one league game this season.