Match Thread Coventry City - Oxford Utd - Match Thread - Friday 16th Aug 8pm KO (49 Viewers)

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Sky Blue Pete

Sky Blue Pete

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Mucca Mad Boys said:
He put in some solid tackles but I don’t disagree with the view that Torp and Eccles struggled when pressed and I’ve felt all 3 games we’ve been open in midfield and defence.

That may be a tactical issue(s) that needs to be tweaked but I suspect that Sheaf will shore things up.
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Definitely looked open in midfield
 
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robbiethemole

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Just looked at the highlights and even the commentator says Harris might be offside for their second, if Haji can be offside for a toenail, surely Harris's knob was also offside. hahaha Where's semi automated tech when it's needed
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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Frostie said:
Saw it at the time, he was getting very frustrated that MvE absolutely pocketed him & lashed out. It's incredible that no action was taken when it was in clear view of the officials. Really should face a retrospective ban as the evidence is clear but won't hold my breath.
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Let’s call it what it is, two league games, two shite sets of officials. Again.
 
Grendel

Grendel

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Kanagaroo said:
Who’s on the Oxford forum twerking for them?

‘southern sky blue’ you’re a loser mate and as you aren’t from Coventry, you might as well support Oxford
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Not sure. I actually see someone texted into CWR and said as palmer didn’t start I assume premier league clubs are after him
 
Great_Expectations

Great_Expectations

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On the defensive frailties stuff; who are we actually talking about here?

The first goal was a soft free kick, which Simms then failed to clear.

The second came from a poor Torp pass in their third, and their player was allowed to run the length of the pitch and they subsequently got a lucky finish. You could argue Bidwell was positionally poor perhaps.

But Lati/Binks were absolutely solid and worked well together.

In my view the gap is in the midfield. The second goal doesn’t happen if Sheaf is on the pitch and/or we finally sign a 6 who will dictate play/sit deep and provide coverage for the defence.
 
Diogenes

Diogenes

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Great_Expectations said:
On the defensive frailties stuff; who are we actually talking about here?

The first goal was a soft free kick, which Simms then failed to clear.

The second came from a poor Torp pass in their third, and their player was allowed to run the length of the pitch and they subsequently got a lucky finish. You could argue Bidwell was positionally poor perhaps.

But Lati/Binks were absolutely solid and worked well together.

In my view the gap is in the midfield. The second goal doesn’t happen if Sheaf is on the pitch and/or we finally sign a 6 who will dictate play/sit deep and provide coverage for the defence.
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Tend to agree with this.

I don't think Binks or Lati had bad games, in fact there's a lot they did right and can remember both making some quality interventions.

Sort the midfield out and once the defence is better protected 50% of our "frailties" go away.

I'd still bring in an experience CB though to shore it up though but if I had to choose between a CM and CM it would be a new CM.
 
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Potbellypig

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Ref was so biased against us last night. How any Oxford fan can say different is beyond me. I have it 2-0 to the refs in the league so far this season, hopefully we get one with us next game.
 
Para1140

Para1140

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Potbellypig said:
Ref was so biased against us last night. How any Oxford fan can say different is beyond me. I have it 2-0 to the refs in the league so far this season, hopefully we get one with us next game.
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Have a read of their forum and they are all complaining saying the ref was a homer and gave them nothing as well as playing 7 minutes extra time so we could score 😂
 
Mucca Mad Boys

Mucca Mad Boys

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Great_Expectations said:
On the defensive frailties stuff; who are we actually talking about here?

The first goal was a soft free kick, which Simms then failed to clear.

The second came from a poor Torp pass in their third, and their player was allowed to run the length of the pitch and they subsequently got a lucky finish. You could argue Bidwell was positionally poor perhaps.

But Lati/Binks were absolutely solid and worked well together.

In my view the gap is in the midfield. The second goal doesn’t happen if Sheaf is on the pitch and/or we finally sign a 6 who will dictate play/sit deep and provide coverage for the defence.
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Binks failed to win the header in the first place for their first and both CBs were ball watching after Simms’ poor touch. That was a collective failure. Including Torp’s poor header - entirely preventable.

Similarly, for their second, we got caught out following Torp’s misplaced pass and we get hit on the counter. Binks was right next to the goal scorer and didn’t really seem to see the danger or attempt to throw himself at the ball there.

Binks work on the ball is frankly, top level. He’s miles ahead of Kitching in that respect. However, Kitching is a better defender, particularly with his positioning. That’s my perception so far.

In games we expect to be ball dominant, I expect us to start with Lati and Binks but against stronger teams, I reckon the default will be Thomas and Kitching at this moment in time.
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

Mucca Mad Boys

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Clarkey_CCFC said:
The real question is, why and how were we so dreadful against Stoke? Robins needs to figure out how we're going to play away from home.
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We weren’t dreadful, in the second half we were the better team that couldn’t fashion a clear cut chance. Missing Sheaf and Wright was a big factor imo.
 
Calista

Calista

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Two observations from this
1) I still think it's a (flexible) 4-2-3-1 not a flat 4-3-3. Rudoni was higher up than Simms on average!
2) Look at the difference in the sides - we only had our two CDs with an average position in our half, and Oxford were so narrow and deep
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Ricky Otto

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Thought that our lad was lucky with those swings. If he connects properly or your lad goes down in front of a feral home crowd he’s probably walking. Your lad does us a favour by not being a “gamesman”.

The ref seemed to give us the rub of the green and a few soft ones in the opening 30 minutes. Second half it kind of felt like a reversal and more went your way.

regard adding the time our goalie held on for probably 3-4 seconds more than is reasonable on 3-4 occasions. It was still open play and that left another 6 mins 45 seconds to account for. I think if the shoe was on the other foot you may have asked the same question on this forum

the point the fans were making about you celebrating was that pre game the general predictions on here were that you should be beating teams like Oxford. Which you should if you have aspirations to go up. And you did. The fact we took you to the 96th minute means you were “limbs “ and thus probably celebrating far more than the walk in the park that was expected. It was a sign to our fans that we did better than expected. You didn’t celebrate like that after the 6th goal in the fa cup in january 😉

interesting to read how you started to financially compete after opening season in the championship by flipping players for more value. Right now the budgets seem unfathomable and unmatchable to a small club like ours. We shall see how it goes.

On another day that score could have been dirty but I’ve seen enough to think we won’t finish 24th. Nobody expected a point from yesterday but there was optimism that we could compete and we nearly stole a point
 
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