FT: BARNSLEY 0 - 1 CARDIFF CITY. Match thread

[SuisseBluebird]

Terrible game to watch, was a stagnated performance by most of the boys with them kicking away possession throughout the 90. Statistically Cardiff are the worst passing team in the league and it showed today, but somehow despite that blight against Cardiff they somehow manage to have the best defensive record in the league and yield the second highest shot count in the league.

Warnock likes to play direct attacking football whenever a blue shirt has possession of the ball. At times it's incredibly effective, but on other occasions like tonight, you see players like Ward look increasingly isolated. Hoilett tried and tried to make things happen tonight and did fairly well, but I couldn't help to think that Cardiff's potency in the final third would have been enhanced by the introduction of Tomlin, a player Warnock is reluctant to give a decent run of games to. Not sure why.

But despite my lamentations, Cardiff got the result tonight, and hats off to Paterson for his reactions to Bamba's cleared effort. It's another 3 points in the bag, back into 2nd place and maintaining a gap between the rest of the chasing pack.

[Blue in the Face]

Terrible game to watch, was a stagnated performance by most of the boys with them kicking away possession throughout the 90. Statistically Cardiff are the worst passing team in the league and it showed today, but somehow despite that blight against Cardiff they somehow manage to have the best defensive record in the league and yield the second highest shot count in the league.

Warnock likes to play direct attacking football whenever a blue shirt has possession of the ball. At times it's incredibly effective, but on other occasions like tonight, you see players like Ward look increasingly isolated. Hoilett tried and tried to make things happen tonight and did fairly well, but I couldn't help to think that Cardiff's potency in the final third would have been enhanced by the introduction of Tomlin, a player Warnock is reluctant to give a decent run of games to. Not sure why.

But despite my lamentations, Cardiff got the result tonight, and hats off to Paterson for his reactions to Bamba's cleared effort. It's another 3 points in the bag, back into 2nd place and maintaining a gap between the rest of the chasing pack.

I thought Hoillet had one of his poorer games tonight, but tried and tried like you say. Think it's tough on him when the onus is on him alone to open things up. We really do miss NML and we're a much poorer side without him.

The one purchase we need to make in Jan is one more quality winger. We should be sweet if we can do that.

Thought we did deserve to win. Barnsley were poor and we worked much harder.

[dml1954]

Terrible game to watch, was a stagnated performance by most of the boys with them kicking away possession throughout the 90. Statistically Cardiff are the worst passing team in the league and it showed today, but somehow despite that blight against Cardiff they somehow manage to have the best defensive record in the league and yield the second highest shot count in the league.

Warnock likes to play direct attacking football whenever a blue shirt has possession of the ball. At times it's incredibly effective, but on other occasions like tonight, you see players like Ward look increasingly isolated. Hoilett tried and tried to make things happen tonight and did fairly well, but I couldn't help to think that Cardiff's potency in the final third would have been enhanced by the introduction of Tomlin, a player Warnock is reluctant to give a decent run of games to. Not sure why.

But despite my lamentations, Cardiff got the result tonight, and hats off to Paterson for his reactions to Bamba's cleared effort. It's another 3 points in the bag, back into 2nd place and maintaining a gap between the rest of the chasing pack.

Why are you so down on a team that you supposedly support ?. To win games like this is exactly what a team has to do to get promoted. Warnock knows this and sets his side up accordingly. Away games like this are not the time to go 'gung-ho' and attack from every angle. As has been proved on many occasions, possession statistics mean absolutely nothing in this league. Cheer up, enjoy the ride and get behind what the team are doing instead of dissecting and criticising our performances.