Quote Originally Posted by dembethewarrior View Post
Fulham were boring and slow.

I know people like gringo praise it, and to an extent I do as well but they were way too slow. It’s not the fact they passed it a lot, I get why they were doing it but there’s got to be a bit more zip about them.

As for Cardiff I agree with the way we set up last night, I’d call it clever rather than negative. We held our shape and made it difficult for them, if we’d have tried to play more they would have ripped us apart.
We looked more of a threat than them with the little of the ball we had as well.
Action areas in the first half were something like Fulham final third 33% city final third 15%. Probably not spot on but not far off.
If we could have played our passes a little quicker and got crosses into the box (whyte wasn’t completely ineffective like OP says,he had a good go, but he needs to get a cross in he looks scared to do so) we might have hurt them more when we did attack, but we seemed to hold and hold until we got tackled rather than releasing the ball.

I praise it when it is done with purpose Dembe.

There is definitely a balancing act for them of course as if they go forward all guns blazing then we have pace in our front 3 to exploit them as we saw with our goal.

However I believe they never showed any adventure whatsoever.

Cairney was poor and Reed wasn't even interested in playing forward. They had 322 sideways passes and I reckon 300 came from Reed!

Arter was a waste of a name on their team sheet and they looked slow and ponderous.

I hate to say it but the two teams I have been impressed with this season are Leeds and Swansea. Swansea had to be careful not to over commit against Birmingham last week but got the balance right.

If people want to take last nights performance in isolation then that's up to them, but the summer's transfer activity has left us woefully unbalanced and unequipped.