FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

[Carl Dale's Mole]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

Is 1-0 ever easy? I was really nervous for the last 15 minutes and was mortified when I heard there were 6 minutes of injury time.

Me too. Because we've been let down oh so many times before :hehe:

But that's as easy a 1-0 as we're gonna get!

[Der Kaiser]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

He literally said, "it wasn't easy".

Which it was.

So a 'near perfect performance' in a game that he thought 'wasn't easy'. That's an even bigger compliment. It wasn't easy for us to find the net after our goal.

[Carl Dale's Mole]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

So a 'near perfect performance' in a game that he thought 'wasn't easy'. That's an even bigger compliment. It wasn't easy for us to find the net after our goal.

Yeh I don't know why I'm even dying on this hill. Seems incredibly pointless :hehe:

[bluebirds17]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

Think Watters time is up. Did himself no favours today, can't complain about not having chances he just simply didn't take them.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

Some highlights https://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...hip-highlights

[Carl Dale's Mole]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

Steve Morison waxed lyrical about his Cardiff City players after a bodies-on-the-line performance helped them beat Birmingham City on Saturday.

The Bluebirds were more than decent value for their 1-0 win, thanks to Jaden Philogene's first-half goal. In truth it should have been a lot more, but a number of big opportunities were missed against the Blues.

But defensively they were fantastic and no one embodied that more than Mahlon Romeo, the player who earned the star man accolade in WalesOnline's player ratings, which you can read here.

"I thought he set the tone today," the Bluebirds boss said of Romeo. "That tackle in the first few minutes got everyone off their seats and I thought he was excellent.

"He's solid. He is a different player to the one I played with, he is a bit more defence-minded than he was previously. We are actually trying to bring out a bit of old Mahlon, the one who is galloping, and I thought he did that at the start of the game. He travelled with the ball really well.

"I thought he was excellent and I thought JC (Jamilu Collins) was excellent. Perry came back in, we saw how much we missed him when he didn't play.

"The pleasing thing is we didn't score the chances but we created them. If we keep creating chances like that I'm sure we will score more than we don't."

Cardiff displayed a swagger which was pleasing for both the manager and the 18,000-plus in attendance at Cardiff City Stadium. And Morison thought his side were good value for the win.

"The first half we were tremendous and the second half we started on fire and should have scored another one," he added.

"We went a bit flat, they got half a foothold in the game. But the changes worked in our favour, but we should have had a couple more, but on the whole I'm really pleased.

"I enjoyed the whole thing. I got more anxious as it went on, because we were so dominant but then I kept thinking, 'Oh, they're going to score here'.

"I just said to them in there, that's what it takes. It's no different to the Norwich game, we did the same thing and we created a few more chances. People are getting more confident. Fitter, stronger. And we have to limit other teams. We limited Norwich to a very small number of chances to score goals and we limited Birmingham to a small number of chances to score goals.

"I'm pleased as punch now sitting here. Because if I was sitting here with a draw now I'd have been devastated."

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steve-morison-picks-out-cardiff-24749808

[goats]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

Think Watters time is up. Did himself no favours today, can't complain about not having chances he just simply didn't take them.

His first touch looks woeful

[City123]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

Excellent performance

[dml1954]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

Think Watters time is up. Did himself no favours today, can't complain about not having chances he just simply didn't take them.

I wish that people would lay off Watters. He did a lot of good things today and worked hard in searing heat. He is young and relatively inexperienced and just needs a goal. Their goalie made two good saves from him today, both were going in the net. It was an excellent TEAM performance and everyone contributed. Harris hasn't contributed goals either recently but he doesn't get the constant criticism that Watters does. Watters looked out on his feet at half time and I wouldn't be surprised if he was substituted due to heat exhaustion. Stick with him and I think he will come good.

[chrisp_1927]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

I'm encouraged by the fact Watters is getting himself into positions to have chances. He obviously knows where the back of the net is, his goal record shows that. I'd be more worried if he wasn't getting into the good positions.

Thought Harris was absolutely brilliant when he came on

[WJ99mobile]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

I thought some of the passing in the first quarter of the game was worse than conference level

We really came into the game later on I felt

[WJ99mobile]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

I can't fault much with that performance, other that not scoring more goals. Once again I thought Collins was outstanding, we looked like we could get in behind them down the left every time, him and Philogene look like they could be a real partnership.

When I watched first half thought he was excellent

Second half every attack they had came down his side and got past him a lot.

[jeepster]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

I'm encouraged by the fact Watters is getting himself into positions to have chances. He obviously knows where the back of the net is, his goal record shows that. I'd be more worried if he wasn't getting into the good positions.

Thought Harris was absolutely brilliant when he came on

I think he just needs a bit of luck,Harris was very good this is a making of a good team.

[WJ99mobile]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

Think Watters time is up. Did himself no favours today, can't complain about not having chances he just simply didn't take them.

They had so many opportunities to slide an easy ball into him he got into so many brilliant positions

[Maurice Swan]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 0 BIRMINGHAM CITY. Match thread

I thought some of the passing in the first quarter of the game was worse than conference level

We really came into the game later on I felt

Is that supposed to be a wind up???