marbelladave Posted 17 October 2010 Posted 17 October 2010 Bit late as I was drunk yesterday. Good performance from the back, if we had played with wingers we'd have murdered them. We need to sign Davies but if he looks good for us either Villa are going to want him back or someone else is going to want him. Glad to see we're not running around like headless chickens when the opposition has the ball, everyone knew what their job was - Didn't take Sven & Faz long to get rid of Sousa's legacy. We have a lot to build on, but we need to replace Howard, I don't think Roberts is the answer but he might be an improvement. Solid & with the addition of Dyer & a new big man we'd be unbeatable. apart from by the very best. We were sound in defence because we played without wingers! Oakley and Gallager both tucked in and gave us a fairly tight, narrow midfield 4. We did not get dominated in central areas as is usually the case when we play 4-4-2 with wide men so in that way it was an improvement. The worst aspect of our play yesterday was the total inability of Howard and Waghorn to show for the pass and make anything happen up front, Howard is past it and Waghorn is a long way from a £2m+ striker at the moment,
davieG Posted 17 October 2010 Posted 17 October 2010 Goals here - http://www.davieg-gallery.limeo.co.uk/
richardsfoxes Posted 17 October 2010 Posted 17 October 2010 Thought the performance was very good in the first half, defently need a striker, we missed dyer alot today, dyer would of run solano ragged. Gallagher, too hot and cold
acooling08 Posted 17 October 2010 Posted 17 October 2010 Hull were dirty weren't they? I don't know how visible it was, but from the half way line I blantantly saw a Hull defender stud Waggy in the back. He later pushed him over near the end (Red for violent conduct DB11?) Then Barmby, WTF? He seems like a nice guy on TV. All he did was slice Berner in 2 and nearly get a red. Once again, an inconsistent and spineless Ref. My views on the performance have allready been said. Improved, sat back to much after 15 mins, resorted to hoof 2nd half.
foxoffderby Posted 17 October 2010 Posted 17 October 2010 Met Nigel Pearson and Craig Shakespere after the game yesterday and had my photo taken with them. Nigel is very nice guy and I told him how the majority of us were very sorry to see him go and upset at the way he was treated. He didn't want to leave City. Craig Shakespere is a jolly chap and was up for a laugh and joke, he was with his wife.
CosbehFox Posted 17 October 2010 Posted 17 October 2010 Just a point on Naughton, he was very recultant to take on players as he wanted to keep the ball. It impressed me tbh. Also Hobbs when he heads the ball he doesn't 'attack' it. Morrison is much better with set pieces cos he goes for it. Nothing wrong with the two set pieces.
Leicester_Loyal Posted 17 October 2010 Posted 17 October 2010 Still no goals from corners, we really need to work on all of our set pieces, especially corners.
Koke Posted 17 October 2010 Posted 17 October 2010 Still no goals from corners, we really need to work on all of our set pieces, especially corners. Or get Kisnorbo and McAuley back.
Corky Posted 17 October 2010 Posted 17 October 2010 Still no goals from corners, we really need to work on all of our set pieces, especially corners. Hobbs had two great chances from corners. Overall our set-pieces aren't great, but there were opportunities created from them,.
Wymsey Posted 17 October 2010 Posted 17 October 2010 Gallagher needs practice of shooting or passing to waghorn/howard when going towards the opposition's box
Dr The Singh Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 Gallagher didn't perform for me!! overall good frist half, poorish second half!! I would guess that Sven will bring in another striker and a goal keeper!!
Adster Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 Gallagher didn't perform for me!! overall good frist half, poorish second half!! I would guess that Sven will bring in another striker and a goal keeper!! why a goalkeeper? we have a decent enough goalkeeper, and decent backup (in logan)
lcfc_jme Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 why a goalkeeper? we have a decent enough goalkeeper, and decent backup (in logan) No, we have a goalkeeper who performed last season but hasn't really got going in a while and is pretty dodgy if the ball is hit from more than 18 yards. And with Logan, he'll always tend to concede anyway. If we did bring in a new goalkeeper it wouldn't be a complete disaster, though I'd like to see a proper winger and a striker arrive first.
Adster Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 No, we have a goalkeeper who performed last season but hasn't really got going in a while and is pretty dodgy if the ball is hit from more than 18 yards. And with Logan, he'll always tend to concede anyway. If we did bring in a new goalkeeper it wouldn't be a complete disaster, though I'd like to see a proper winger and a striker arrive first. I agree with parts of this, he hasnt got going in a while because he's been out for a long time. Weale lacks match fitness/practice, i think we'd be okay if we didnt sign a goalkeeper. He made a few good saves yesterday. I agree that a striker and/or winger would be more the priority.
Dr The Singh Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 why a goalkeeper? we have a decent enough goalkeeper, and decent backup (in logan) IMO Ikeme, and Logan haven't really looked good enough this season, and the goal tally doesn;t really give the correct picture and someone looking from the outside would point at the goal keeing position as one to improve. Weale, did well last season but has come back from injury, so Sven in his mind may want to strentghen all positions including the keeper!!
marbelladave Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 I agree with parts of this, he hasnt got going in a while because he's been out for a long time. Weale lacks match fitness/practice, i think we'd be okay if we didnt sign a goalkeeper. He made a few good saves yesterday. I agree that a striker and/or winger would be more the priority. Weale's not awful, but this season he has played behind a rubbish defence and had a nasty injury, he can and will do better. The worry remains that he is too often beaten from range, City still do not play an effective holding player who would sit in front of our back 4 and close down attackers 20 - 30 yards out. Abe and Moreno are reputed to be specialists in that role yet can't get a game wheras Wellens and Oakley, both lightweights defensively play every week. Probably won't stop everything but better closing down in front of our box would probably help, it's happening far too often to be bad luck or 'happenstance'.
MrSpaM Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 I'm expecting things to get better after saturdays performance, it says alot when the best two players on the pitch have only been at the club two days before the game. IMO the sooner Fryatts back the better, why were insisting on sending long balls up to Waghorn i've got no idea, he didn't win a single header against hull, and big steve looked knackered and not up to the challenge. We need a proven goalscorer, the closer to premiership first team standard the better, otherwise were never going to bag enough goals to stay up, never mind all this promotion garbage the owners are spitting out.
MrSpaM Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 Probably won't stop everything but better closing down in front of our box would probably help, it's happening far too often to be bad luck or 'happenstance'. Anybody know the stats on how many of the goals we've let in this season have been from outside the box?
The Doctor Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 Anybody know the stats on how many of the goals we've let in this season have been from outside the box? 6 (poss 7 - iirc s****horpe goal was struck from just outside box but took a big deflection from s****horpe player in box) out of 24 (league only - not done cup) so 25/29% (depending on whether you count s****horpe) of goals from outside the area in the league this season.
MrSpaM Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 so 25/29% (depending on whether you count s****horpe) of goals from outside the area in the league this season. Thought it'd be a lot more than this tbh, i stand corrected
marbelladave Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 6 (poss 7 - iirc s****horpe goal was struck from just outside box but took a big deflection from s****horpe player in box) out of 24 (league only - not done cup) so 25/29% (depending on whether you count s****horpe) of goals from outside the area in the league this season. Happened last season too, when our defence was much meaner than it has been this term. Stats do not always tell the story, it just seems to me that a fair number of goals that go in from distance leave me with the feeling that our keeper should have done rather better. I know that's kind of vague but I have seen a fair few games last season and this and for an otherwise decent keeper it happens much too often...
The Doctor Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 Happened last season too, when our defence was much meaner than it has been this term. Stats do not always tell the story, it just seems to me that a fair number of goals that go in from distance leave me with the feeling that our keeper should have done rather better. I know that's kind of vague but I have seen a fair few games last season and this and for an otherwise decent keeper it happens much too often... to be beaten from distance usually requires either one hell of a strike or poor keeping and while two of those goals (Wallace for burnley and lawrence for portsmouth) were lucky with deflections, almost all the rest the keeper could have done better with (weale v Palace & Hull, ikeme v cardiff) - you could argue ikemes postitioning was off for the narwich one. still if we closed them down earlier we wouldn't get this sort of thing cropping up fairly frequently - so we need to play a defensive midfielder or encourage wellens/oakley/king to get stuck in more.
Dylan Posted 18 October 2010 Posted 18 October 2010 Just watched the highlights on BBC. Weale really should've saved that with ease in my opinion.
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