Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone View Post
A very good football thread - and a good read

I think there is a little similarity between Mourihno’s Utd this season and our performances in the Championship albeit with less quality players. Utd are 2nd with everyone bemoaning their style of football. Good thing for us is we as a set of fans have far less expectation than Utd fans. Halford is even our equivalent of their Fellaini😄.

I know I’m far more enjoying the current Cardiff performances than those slow pass the ball along the back 5 before losing it that we played under Trollope.

We have a very good set of players that fit the style we play. I’m sure we would all be furious if our keeper rolled the ball out to the full back who gave up possession leading to a goal right on memhalf time like Brentford did last night - there was nothing pretty about that!

We have some outstanding athletic footballers too - Zohore, Hoilett , Paterson, Bamba, Morrison Bennett ( and Ralls before his injury) are all consistently performing game after game in an unrelenting physical league
I don't see us as being like the current utd that much really.
We don't try to do anything that fancy or intricate, but re are relentlessly attacking.
We only have 30-40% posession in games but every % of those is going for the jugular.

Man utd finish most games with the lions share of posession, but their safety first approach is dull as ditchwater.
They don't commit numbers forward, or have a super aggressive press that can make an exciting game but also give the opposition opportunities.
They tend to shut down the opportunities for both sides and score one of the few chances that arises.
We play a simple, physical, agricultural at times game, but it is attacking. What man u have produced this season is not.

A better comparison would be one of the stoke teams under pulis, or at a push leicester the year they won it.