Coventry v Milwall

[bluesp]

Nice to see a home team, behind at home, moving the ball with intent, getting numbers in/ around the box and breaking with pace and intent. Why can’t we have nice things like this?

[Maurice Swan]

Re: Coventry v Milwall

Lovely FAST attack for Coventry second....I wonder if our players watch some of these games...

[G rangetown Blue]

Re: Coventry v Milwall

They get an iffy pen (taken poorly) for the 1st, and the keeper threw the 2nd one in !…. Why can’t we get that sort of good fortune? :shrug:

[bluesp]

Re: Coventry v Milwall

Lovely FAST attack for Coventry second....I wonder if our players watch some of these games...

Exactly, we seem to do everything at such a slow pace. Even throws, goal kicks, etc. Surely, doing things quicker gives the opposition less time to organise themselves

[Maurice Swan]

Re: Coventry v Milwall

They get an iffy pen (taken poorly) for the 1st, and the keeper threw the 2nd one in !…. Why can’t we get that sort of good fortune? :shrug:

We don't even get that far forward at home these days.....

Another thing....Coventry haven't just sat back and hold on to the lead...as we would do...

[llan bluebird]

Re: Coventry v Milwall

How many of our attacking players would start for either team

Etete, Metie, Tanner, Bowler definitely no, maybe Grant because he has pace and stamina

[G rangetown Blue]

Re: Coventry v Milwall

We had 14 shots yesterday….they had 3, hardly negative tactics. Millwall were by far the better team in the 1st half, just didn’t take their chances…..sounds familiar?

[G rangetown Blue]

Re: Coventry v Milwall

How many of our attacking players would start for either team

Etete, Metie, Tanner, Bowler definitely no, maybe Grant because he has pace and stamina

On current form….obviously none !

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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The Millwall scorer, Esse, wasn't he with QPR previously?

Edit: It was Eze.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Coventry v Milwall

Lovely FAST attack for Coventry second....I wonder if our players watch some of these games...

More importantly, does our manager?

[D. Advocaat]

Re: Coventry v Milwall

We had 14 shots yesterday….they had 3, hardly negative tactics. Millwall were by far the better team in the 1st half, just didn’t take their chances…..sounds familiar?

Not really. You have to create chances before you take them and we don't even do that. We were the better side for about 20 mins yesterday without threatening their goal, and I can't recall us being 'by far the better team' over 45 mins any time this season (although my memory may just be dulled by the tedium of several home performances).

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Re: Coventry v Milwall

Nice to see a home team, behind at home, moving the ball with intent, getting numbers in/ around the box and breaking with pace and intent. Why can’t we have nice things like this?

You can only judge the merits of this City side by comparing us with the rest in this league. We're not just light years away from the PL, not even the top of the Championship. We're light years away from the likes of Preston, Coventry, Bristol City........

[IanD]

Re: Coventry v Milwall

Exactly, we seem to do everything at such a slow pace. Even throws, goal kicks, etc. Surely, doing things quicker gives the opposition less time to organise themselves

Otherwise known as "fecking get on with it". My mantra for several seasons now. Always a case of slow, defensive throw ins, waiting for the opposition to get organised from goal kicks, passing backwards/sideways etc etc. It doesn't take a genius of a manager to see that we are too slow and negative.

[G rangetown Blue]

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Preston hardly troubled us all game….I don’t even recall them having a corner all game? Our problem is obvious…not sticking the ball in the net when we are ‘on top’, poor form from our strikers, and no breaks (pen, deflection, miss hit shot etc) in front of goal.

[jon1959]

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Preston hardly troubled us all game….I don’t even recall them having a corner all game? Our problem is obvious…not sticking the ball in the net when we are ‘on top’, poor form from our strikers, and no breaks (pen, deflection, miss hit shot etc) in front of goal.

They didn't.

But strange how match stats can give a totally different picture from the one fans get watching the whole game as it happens.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cq572rjqw01t?page=2