Match Thread Coventry City - Oxford Utd - Match Thread - Friday 16th Aug 8pm KO (3 Viewers)

[Skyblue_CP]

Look at some of the posts on here after we won our first ‘home’ game at this level against QPR.

Exactly, and we stayed up… just. They’ve only got to take one look at Rotherham last year, once the league starts getting on top of you.

 

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[Brighton Sky Blue]

Exactly, and we stayed up… just.

Freak seasons like Ipswich aside, the first season up is invariably always a hard fought battle to stay in the division. If Oxford play as described today, then with our current weaknesses it’s a good plan.

 

[skybluecam]

Anyone know what time the bars outside serve until?

 

[Ricky Otto]

Had to have a nose on their forum, and it seems like their win against Norwich has lulled them into a false sense of security. Although, it shows their mentality that they’re still hyped to have beaten a L1 team mid week. They think their team is a lot better than it is. The Championship is one of the hardest leagues and is relentless. I’d imagine if we give it another 6-8 weeks when teams settle and they start getting relentlessly eaten alive every 3 days their opinion of the league might change.

Optimism shouldn’t be confused with assumption.

We know we are favourites to get relegated and just happy to be back. We would bite your hand off for 21st place right now

Saturday was a pleasant surprise but we know we caught Norwich at the right time.

beating Peterborough is enjoyable as they’re an excellent league one outfit who we’ve been battling with for a few seasons and to see our reserves dominate them was an unusual experience

 

[SeaSeeEffCee]

Optimism shouldn’t be confused with assumption.

We know we are favourites to get relegated and just happy to be back. We would bite your hand off for 21st place right now

Saturday was a pleasant surprise but we know we caught Norwich at the right time.

beating Peterborough is enjoyable as they’re an excellent league one outfit who we’ve been battling with for a few seasons and to see our reserves dominate them was an unusual experience

Tbf what you describe in regards to Peterborough was actually how I felt in the cup game against you last season. I remember you beating us, and finishing above us, many times while we were in the lower leagues. It was a reminder of quickly we’ve risen.

 

[Saddlebrains]

Probably pointless now after that shit Twitter page

But

4231

Dovin

MVE
Lats
Binks
Bidwell


Eccles
Torp

Sakamoto
Rudoni
Wright

Simms

 

[Perennial Lurker]

Probably pointless now after that shit Twitter page

But

4231

Dovin

MVE
Lats
Binks
Bidwell


Eccles
Torp

Sakamoto
Rudoni
Wright

Simms

Decent side , might've played DaSilva against these

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Wonder how long it’s going to take him to cotton on to this system not suiting the players available-took until PNE away last time.

 

[Perennial Lurker]

Wonder how long it’s going to take him to cotton on to this system not suiting the players available-took until PNE away last time.

Huh?
We've won one and lost one
Unless you've seen the performance data from the training ground

 

[Jamesimus]

Hoping for a convincing Lati at centre half performance then. I feel as though it’s his best position.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Huh?
We've won one and lost one
Unless you've seen the performance data from the training ground

Hmmm, just based on what we seem to be trying in games compared to what we saw in the second half of last season. Looks pretty similar so far.

 

[Liquid Gold]

Our second team absolute spanked Oxford last year and they didn't have a full CBS to get behind them.

3-1
Simmo, Haj & EMC

 

[MusicDating]

Decent side , might've played DaSilva against these

Plucky little Dasilva against plucky little Oxford?

 

[Perennial Lurker]

Plucky little Dasilva against plucky little Oxford?

Thought he played well Tuesday

 

[MusicDating]

Thought he played well Tuesday

He did TBF. I do feel he offers more attacking link-up play than Bidwell does (though the av. position and assists stats probably contradict that).

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Loss tonight 0-2

 

[suffolkskyblue24]

Tbf the streets surrounding Foleshill road are even worse

I grew up quite happily on Park St just off the Foleshill Road and around the corner from the General Wolfe. Great times and community.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Brad Collins’ song playing just now in the ground

 

[Tommo1993]

2-2. That’s two goals to Coventry and two goals to Oxford, both 2 goals.

 

[chiefdave]

I haven't put the team on here though, I haven't done that for months

4231

Dovin

MVE
Lats
Binks
Bidwell


Eccles
Torp

Sakamoto
Rudoni
Wright

Simms

tbf held out until the second game of the season, longer than I was expecting

 

[covcity4life]

Strange. I thought Allen always plays if he's fit.....

 

[skybluecam]

Lati disasterclass incoming

 

[suffolkskyblue24]

 

[fatso]

Some great options on the bench.
Just add Sheaf to that match day squad and it looks very impressive. (On paper at least)

 

[JimmyHillsbeard]

Hi there folks. Oxford fan here.

Our toughest test tomorrow and certainly memories of how you utterly dismantled us last season, and you compounding a very bad run that we were already on. You looked excellent that day and showed us the standard to aspire to. Needless to say we are all very surprised 8 months later to be playing you in the same league. But after 25 years absence, plunging down to the conference, we are pretty happy just to be back and making up the numbers. You are clearly favourites tomorrow and many of you have perhaps rightly predicted a home victory.

There’s a little bit of harshness on this forum though about our away support for tomorrow. The permanent non student population of Oxford is 120,000. By contrast Coventry-Bedworth is three times that at 450,000. The average home support that you get is about three times more than us.

Our home support is 9000 so to bring nearly 1600 (20% of our home support) to you isn’t terrible on a Friday night sky tv game. it would be the equivalent of you taking about 5,000 to an away game.

A little additional context …in September 2018 you came to our place for a sky game and brought 774 fans (3% of current home support).

Great Cov related username. Booby G agreed to buy Ricky Otto only to pull out of the deal when Ricky turned up with an agent. Killed our Destination Europe plans for the first season of the Prem stone dead. Ricky went to Bham in the Football League insyead.

 

[RoysterE17]

Lati I really do see as a weak link whatever team is played. Given a opportunity tonight, prove me wrong.

 

[Jamesimus]

2-2. That’s two goals to Coventry and two goals to Oxford, both 2 goals.

1 shot on target each.

 

[no_loyalty]

Lati I really do see as a weak link whatever team is played. Given an opportunity tonight, prove me wrong.

Thomas has been poor in both games tbf.

 

[hamil99]

Would have preferred Thomas and Dasilva in, but I'm generally happy with that team. Need Rudoni to play as a more box to box midfielder and come collect from the defence and drive forwards. Nervously excited for this one.

 

[Seamus1]

Latibeaudiere and Binks . Going to need to score at least 3 to win this then

 

[Cally Fedora]

Latibeaudiere is fine as a defender. Just scares the hell out of me when he’s in possession. Torp lucky to start for me.

 

[lifeskyblue]

Strong bench if required. Interesting to see how the team starts tonight

 

[long way home]

So no Collins, Tavares, Howley, Burroughs, Obikwu, Dausch can see a few of them out the door in next few weeks. Sheaf and Rodriguez get fit be another 2 looking in from the outside.

 

[Liquid Gold]

2-2. That’s two goals to Coventry and two goals to Oxford, both 2 goals.

Sorry I'm not getting it

 

[Tommo1993]

Sorry I'm not getting it

FFS, I couldn’t have been more thorough.