Coventry City at home match thread

[Mr Popodopolous]

That was a very satisfying win. We could have been a couple down by the time we scored.

2nd half was much more even. They only had one shot on target for all of their possession and pressure, they hit the bar too.

It wasn't spectacular but we are somewhat wrecked with injuries. Good win v the playoff finalists, we dont beat them all that often. That's us somewhat square now given we should have beaten Stoke but we faded horribly.

Today the opposite on one level. Williams wasn't even mentioned in the press conference and I doubt Knight was fully fit. We still have to manage Conway sensibly and perhaps Weimann to an extent.

[Bodiesaffer]

Good win that with a patched up side.  

[One Team]

Massive, massive win. Injury stricken, battered in the first half but went in leading and then a battling second half performance to seal the win. Not great football clearly for some of the game but such a great result. Up to 8th and one point off the play offs too!

Edited October 21, 2023 by One Team

[Malvern Red]

Zero reaction on Radio Bristol

[mozo]

30 minutes ago, Supersonic Robin said:

Interesting seeing how many of our fans feel that we "got battered" today.

We restricted Coventry to 1 shot on target. I can't remember them having a big chance all game.

The narrative seems to be rather different when we're the team who only manages 1 shot on target!

 

22 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Max had 0 saves to make, and them ‘hitting the bar’ is basically the same as saying they hit two shots off target as they pretty much clipped the top of the bar whilst heading over. Differently story if they crash off the bar and create a goal mouth scramble or something. 

You're totally rewriting history if you suggest that we weren't dominated in that first half. No, they didn't create chances, and they'll be kicking themselves for that, but they looked a league above us. We we were just smashing the ball upfield or giving it away. 

If we hadn't have changed formation we might have lost 3-0, but we'll never know. 

I'm not sure your arguments based on shot stats change the perspective. We were shit for 35 minutes. 

Nige made a mistake with the formation. He made a great change by going back to 4-3-3, and he got us much better prepared for the second half.

[Galley is our king]

2 minutes ago, Malvern Red said:

Zero reaction on Radio Bristol

Must have been good then, most only go on to moan....

[sephjnr]

"Bristol City are as midtable as it gets" - Ryan Dilks, Second Tier

[The Dolman Pragmatist]

1 hour ago, Ivorguy said:

Great result from cobbled together side.  Shows the importance of esprit de corps. Well done Nige and the coaching staff.

Is that the same coaching staff that decided we should go three at the back for the first 38 minutes.

[sephjnr]

Just now, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Is that the same coaching staff that decided we should go three at the back for the first 38 minutes.

We were five at the back and it was still nearly 4-0

[Ska Junkie]

1 hour ago, Ivorguy said:

I just can’t imagine where we would be in the league with this squad without Nige.

I don't think we would be in this league Ivor.

[RedEyez]

7 minutes ago, sephjnr said:

"Bristol City are as midtable as it gets" - Ryan Dilks, Second Tier

To be fair , we’re 1 point off mid table

[MC RISK77]

Down to the bare bones so a great win- really hoping that after the next international break we have many first teamers back in contention

We done all- workmanlike performance 

[Mallorcan Red]

9 minutes ago, sephjnr said:

"Bristol City are as midtable as it gets" - Ryan Dilks, Second Tier

Looks nice but GD doesnt lie come the end of the season. We need a few more GF without any GA! 

[Ian M]

10 minutes ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Is that the same coaching staff that decided we should go three at the back for the first 38 minutes.

Tbf, if Knight had 90 mins in him he'd have started, so the back 5 did a good job somehow keeping it to nil til the point he could come on.

[Gimme Shelton]

Shout out for TGH too,we know he's not a right back but he was very tidy today in his proper position 

[petehinton]

17 minutes ago, mozo said:

 

You're totally rewriting history if you suggest that we weren't dominated in that first half. No, they didn't create chances, and they'll be kicking themselves for that, but they looked a league above us. We we were just smashing the ball upfield or giving it away. 

If we hadn't have changed formation we might have lost 3-0, but we'll never know. 

I'm not sure your arguments based on shot stats change the perspective. We were shit for 35 minutes. 

Nige made a mistake with the formation. He made a great change by going back to 4-3-3, and he got us much better prepared for the second half.

I’m not saying we weren’t. Dominated for 30 minutes definitely. But its not like we were being absolutely peppered non stop and Max had a worldy. 

[bexhill reds]

1 minute ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Is that the same coaching staff that decided we should go three at the back for the first 38 minutes.

And the same coaching staff who decided that something was not working so made the change…

[MattWSM]

what was the attendance today and how many from Coventry 

[Rossi the Robin]

30 minutes ago, Malvern Red said:

Zero reaction on Radio Bristol

Didn’t seem like the usual program driving back, thought I had the wrong station 
Heard Chris Honor but none of the usual callers after, seemed to be about other stuff 

Edited October 21, 2023 by Rossi the Robin

[sephjnr]

8 minutes ago, MattWSM said:

what was the attendance today and how many from Coventry 

Website says 22,718. No figure for Cov.

[bcfc01]

That was a weird game.

I can only think of a couple of players who did't play well - Conway and Max, yet as a team we were awful for most of the game.

Conway looked way off being ready but obviously needed the minutes. He really struggled against their centre backs with the little service he got. 90% of it was in the air. Cornick put himself about when he replaced Conway and gave their CBs a game.

Max dropped us in it often with his crap distribution. At one point in the first half, instead of a pass to Sykes on the floor, he lobbed it to him at head height with the opposition bearing down on him just outside our area. Sykes rightly gave him a bollocking. I thought Max was awful today and a bit of a liability.

For me the standouts were Dickie (MoM), TGH, and Pring. James and King did well.

Lucky to get that win, if Coventry could finish their chances they would have won by three and they were miles better than us technically.

But the effort and committment from the players was exemplary, shame about the lack of quality. And the support towards the end was really good and, I think, helped the players.

End of the day its 1-0 and three points which puts us 8th, out of the top 6 by one point which is mental tbh.

 

[Numero Uno]

33 minutes ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Is that the same coaching staff that decided we should go three at the back for the first 38 minutes.

If the same coaching staff knew in advance that Roberts would have what is likely to be the worst half hour of his football career they might have taken a different approach. I’m guessing you knew that would happen?

[redkev]

1 hour ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

GTFI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How did we win that?

The same way we lost to Stoke

[The Swan and Cemetery]

12 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Conway looked way off being ready but obviously needed the minutes. He really struggled against their centre backs with the little service he got. 90% of it was in the air. Cornick put himself about when he replaced Conway and gave their CBs a game.

Would quite like to see Cornick and Conway together as an option. Cornick’s appearance summed him up for me, some of it’s clumsy and so on, but you feel he’s always in the game and as you say, opponents know they’ve a game on their hands. Service wasn’t amazing, but none of our starting front three really got involved enough, Cornick (and Yeboah) caused more problems (accepting Coventry searching for a win maybe left more space than the starting three had access to). 

[redkev]

Did anyone else notice a little group ( about 20 ) cov fans looking for and trying to cause hassle today 

I first noticed them on the waterfront along with other cov fans ( who were just having a drink and behaving ) then I seen them near the bottom end of north street neat the spanish bar playing up then again whilst walking past the rising sun , the did have a couple of coppers in tow with them the whole way but what made me laugh was that there were about 20-30 city fans within spitting distance of them the whole way , also seen a little altercation at the top end of the park on my out ( probably the same little group ) generally thought cov fans were pretty decent tbh 

[redkev]

27 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

That was a weird game.

I can only think of a couple of players who did't play well - Conway and Max, yet as a team we were awful for most of the game.

Conway looked way off being ready but obviously needed the minutes. He really struggled against their centre backs with the little service he got. 90% of it was in the air. Cornick put himself about when he replaced Conway and gave their CBs a game.

Max dropped us in it often with his crap distribution. At one point in the first half, instead of a pass to Sykes on the floor, he lobbed it to him at head height with the opposition bearing down on him just outside our area. Sykes rightly gave him a bollocking. I thought Max was awful today and a bit of a liability.

For me the standouts were Dickie (MoM), TGH, and Pring. James and King did well.

Lucky to get that win, if Coventry could finish their chances they would have won by three and they were miles better than us technically.

But the effort and committment from the players was exemplary, shame about the lack of quality. And the support towards the end was really good and, I think, helped the players.

End of the day its 1-0 and three points which puts us 8th, out of the top 6 by one point which is mental tbh.

 

Agree about Conway , however he has been out a fair while , today also had little service and was up against a very physical experiaced centre half in mcfayzan ( or what ever his name is 

[Sleepy1968]

56 minutes ago, Mallorcan Red said:

Looks nice but GD doesnt lie come the end of the season. We need a few more GF without any GA! 

1 extra point is worth more than all the goal difference in the world.

[YGBjammy]

Can't believe we managed to win that!

[Mr Popodopolous]

Just now, YGBjammy said:

Can't believe we managed to win that!

XG would tilt that as a draw. On the flipside we shouldn't have lost to Stoke.

Give or take a point or 2 either way we probably about where we should be..ie XG is aligning quite well to our actual pts.

[Sleepy1968]

34 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

If the same coaching staff knew in advance that Roberts would have what is likely to be the worst half hour of his football career they might have taken a different approach. I’m guessing you knew that would happen?

Yeah, they don't pick the formation hoping it doesn't work do they.

It got changed when it was obvious it could not be made to work. (I don't think either wing back were playing well, and JD seemed to have acres of space going forward.)