Match Thread Coventry City - Tottenham Hotspur [LC] Match Thread - Wednesday 18th Sep (4 Viewers)

[Great_Expectations]

I thought you said you were staying at home?

I think your spreadsheet has let you down.

 

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[Tommo1993]

Allen was getting sloppy long before he gave the ball away for their first goal. Killer ball for the winner, what can you do? The differences for a lot of the game were abundantly clear.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I wouldn't say it's vintage CCFC style anymore. 6 years ago maybe

I believe vintage refers to days of old

 

[Nick]

Everyone leaving early can fuck off as well.

Yes we didn’t win but they deserve an applause after that.

The team left 15 minutes before the end didn't they?

 

[HadjiChippo]

On another night, we’re clear before they even get their first real sniff.

 

[hinckley cov]

That is exactly what Sheaf is always prone to, simple passes misplaced.

Should never of played it to torp had two men on him , just stupid, oh well we played well and didn’t deserve to lose , plus points Bassette looked good and we made loads of chances against a prem team, on to Saturday and the start of our run up the league.

 

[larry_david]

Anger at gifting them the win aside. This level of performance needs to be the catalyst now to attack the league.

No more excuses, it starts now

 

[Perennial Lurker]

The difference in the subs was the decider.

Taking Eccles off was a mistake. Allen was exhausted and should of gone off instead.

Their subs gave them a big lift.

They are internationals to be fair

 

[Alkhen]

I wish I could kick a ball as far as Torp controls it.

You can't seriously blame Torp for that goal. Mad. Sheaf pinged it to him whilst he had two men closing him down. Crap by Sheaf

 

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

Our Subs Killed our Momentum, no Pace up front.

But the Team Played Well, onwards and upwards. PUSB.

 

[jordan210]

Positive is we can’t afford to be distracted by cups games .

 

[TomRad85]

Hold on , we brought on sheaf , Simms and torp .

2 are 1st on the team sheet when everybody is fit ?

Dunno if Simms will be for long looking at Bassette. I say this as a big Simms fan, but Bassette excites me a lot more. Once he gets 1 I can see the flood gates opening.
Seen a lot of comparisons but he reminds me of Vardy more than anyone.

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[Evo1883]

As he should be

I think the subs were fine tbh

 

[Matt smith]

Proud of the team tonight, gutted but we were good tonight

I’m normally negative but I’m not tonight

well done city

but we have to beat Swansea

 

[The watchmaker]

People blaming the subs... I wouldn't have taken Eccles off but the reality is that we were probably going to spend the end of the game sitting on the lead and there were some tired legs out there. It's too easy to pretend other players would have seen us through.

 

[junglej13]

Harsh on Simms

Slightly, but he was a step down from Bassette. I generally like Simms but Bassette showed far more tonight in his general game than Simms has all season.

 

[Liquid Gold]

Not sure that Wilson covered himself in glory for either goal in truth, bit he did pull off a couple of cracking saves.

Decent performance regardless, and Bassette looked exceptional.

I know it was forced on us to some degree, but I thought we looked a lot more threatening breaking from deep with pace, than this grindingly slow possession football we seem to get drawn into against 'lesser' teams.

That’s Wilson all over. Great with the reaction save but when someone is running at him he doesn’t know when to come or if he does how far to close the angle.

 

[SIR ERNIE]

It's the game that confirmed we have a huge talent in Bassette.
That's the big positive to take from tonight.

 

[Briles]

I believe vintage refers to days of old

Yeah but 6 years ain't old

 

[Evo1883]

Dunno if Simms will be for long looking at Bassette. I say this as a big Simms fan, but Bassette excites me a lot more. Once he gets 1 I can see the flood gates opening.
Seen a lot of comparisons but he reminds me of Vardy more than anyone.

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Really solid comparison tbh never thought of that

 

[fernandopartridge]

Our players were excellent - Rudoni, Bassette, Eccles and Wilson chiefly.
Spurs brought Maddison, Son, Spence and Kulusevski off the bench and they made the difference - we just don't play against players of that quality often.

They did to an extent but we gifted them the game with the mistake, don't mind being beaten by a moment of class but it just wasn't the case

 

[covcity4life]

Today showed fringe players are v good too so let's not pretend we HAD to make subs for Swansea

It's not always that simple

 

[HJones23]

Spurs fan in the directors section sat by Daniel Levy just pushed over by a Cov fan and split his head open. Que the tweet from the club tomorrow about the behaviour of fans

 

[Blind-Faith]

We were really good for 90% of that game, against PL opposition. Eccles is really starting to come into his own, this is going to be his season.

Bassett looks like Vik mark 2.0 and I’m very excited by him. EMC just needs one to go in for him and we will see a different player. Wilson had a good game between the stick aswell.

plenty of positives to take from tonight, result is gutting, but I’d take this for 3 points on Saturday

 

[Perennial Lurker]

Slightly, but he was a step down from Bassette. I generally like Simms but Bassette showed far more tonight in his general game than Simms has all season.

Wouldn't argue with that but Simms wasn't bad when he came on

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Yeah but 6 years ain't old

6 years ago we weren’t even scoring goals!

 

[JohnWH]

Who are the 300 odd "guests" without logins viewing this thread.

Show yourselves, salty Sunlun and Lesta fans

 

[Jamesimus]

That was the worst performance I’ve seen from Van Ewjick - never got forward and gave the ball away frequently in dangerous positions.

Hindsight is great but if fit is have left Wright on

Didn’t you say it was his worst performance after the Norwich game as well (when he was one of the best players on the pitch)?

Thought everyone was decent. Allen running through treacle at the end and should have came off. Wright was poor first half, but seemed to wake up a bit second half although not much worked out for him today.

 

[fernandopartridge]

The work rate and intensity from our subs wasn't good enough either. Sheaf not match fit but Torp and Simms didn't work hard enough when compared with who they replaced.

 

[Liquid Gold]

I’ll be pissed off if we limp to a draw on Saturday now more than ever.

Let’s start putting teams away.

 

[Matt smith]

Jake Bidwell was back to his best tonight

 

[Paxman II]

Very good performance by us and a tough one to take. Allen just not at the level and gave the ball away many times when his job is to keep it. You can't blame Sheaf, he's comeon after a long lay off. perhaps not thebest of decisions in hingsight, but he needed some minutes.
In a way Robin's got his performance and confidence into the players with Asante and Mason-Clarke looking hungry. He is likely secretly please we are out so he can concentrate on the league and 3 points on Saturday. Robins probably saying brilliant lads in the dressing room.
Binks and Thomas look a good partnership and Bidwell was very good as was Van Ewik.

 

[Nick]

Subs showed that Robins wasn’t really arsed about winning the game. Basically just took off everyone who is likely to start on Saturday. No way Allen should have played 90 minutes, he was awful second half.

To be fair he was shattered.

 

[Matt smith]

Who starts alongside Eccles and Rudoni Saturday?

 

[procdoc]

We played well in all honesty and should have been a couple of goals ahead before they even had a shot. Bassette looks the real deal