Match Thread Coventry v Sunderland Championship Playoff 1st Leg Friday 9th May (56 Viewers)

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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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A 1-0 deficit isn't the end of the world, we can certainly feel a lot better than Bristol City will, and whilst we go to the SoL for a one match shoot-out still in the tie, there are some serious lessons we need to take from this game.

Sunderland tactically did us tonight. They were happy to let us have the ball and attack, knowing we would do very little when we did. They picked their moments and looked pretty dangerous when they did.

Aside from the MvE fuck up, Sheaf caused us massive problems. He keept jaunting forward thinking he can help up front, and in doing so left a massive gap for the Sunderland attacking players. It would be alright if he could offer something in the forward areas, but he can't, and he weighs down our attacking threat significantly. It means we just slop around slowly with very little execution. They're a big threat on the counter attack, and we got sucker-punched by not being smart enough when we needed to be.

BTA is not a target man and it wasn't working with him playing up front on his own. Wright was probably just a bit off today, but was extremely poor. Really we should expect more offensive success, but it was a bit limp and that also cost us.

You have to give credit for the quick reaction, which is exactly what we needed at the time. Grimes was immense and basically did the midfield on his own. The rest of the defence were pretty good (for the most part) I thought too, and Saka put in a shift.

All to play for next week, and we can do it. I think we need to shift our tactics a bit though. Some personnel changes too. EMC and Allen need to come in for BTA and Sheaf respectively. We cannot set up the same way and expect a different outcome.

We have to go there and win. Spare no horses now. Sleep well SBA.
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

Mucca Mad Boys

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stupot07 said:
I think we all agree with very good home record, so much so people have been calling it the GBH. We have only picked up 2 more points than Sunderland this season at home.
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Context is everything, their form at home was heavily weighted with the first half of the season. Ours was hampered by the poor home record under Robins.

Poor defending and goalkeeping for both goals tonight and the usual scapegoat didn’t play.

MVE takes so many unnecessary risks with his back passes it’s a real Achilles heel in his game.
 
pusbccfc

pusbccfc

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Done and dusted let's be honest. No way we break them down sitting back for 90 minutes up there.

Lessons to be learnt for Frank. No Simms is bonkers.
 
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HungarySkyBlue

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Same shit all the time, can't break teams down get caught on country and or make a retarded mistake, but still there's another game if they're braver we have a chance if they do what they did tonight we're fucked.
 
SkyblueTexan

SkyblueTexan

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They are just going to sit deep in a low block, waste time and shithouse for 90 mins in the second leg. And their fans are going to be behind them.
 
Esoterica

Esoterica

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fernandopartridge said:
Pathetic performance after all the social media nonsense. Lampard demonstrating again zero tactical awareness or flexibility, they came to sit in and we had no answer at all.
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Was it that bad? Wright was useless but everyone else huffed and puffed against a team playing very deep. Would have taken Wright off for Simms at the same time BTA came off. If anything we were guilty of over-committing looking for the advantage in our home leg, but the ref played into their hands and we didn't adapt after their first couple of dangerous counters. Tie is far from over.
 
Otis

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fatso said:
Ok, so we know what we've got to do on Tuesday night.

Trust Frank to do the business.
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I am not too despondent.

These things happen, annoying as they are.

MVE is a top player, but every player has it them to give stupid back passes

It's still been an excellent season and we CAN still turn this around

Get an early goal in Tuesday and it's game on again.

Keep the faith.
 
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DT-R

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And to think, if we don't get promoted, the one player we're likely to lose to a premier league/parachute club, is the one that has very much, almost cost us the play-offs.
So much work to do up their now and with how toothless our attack are mixed with our away form and them happy with the low block it's a VERY BIG ask. Outside of Rudoni our forward players offer nothing week in, week out. All of them want too many touches. Our long throws and corners were poor and we didn't threaten from them all night (not helped by the ref blowing up for a free kick every other one).
We've again played ok but gifted 2 goals. Thomas stupidly trying to play for an offside that never was and MVE. A team that gifts as many goals as we do don't deserve it anyway.

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larry_david

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Mucca Mad Boys said:
Context is everything, their form at home was heavily weighted with the first half of the season. Ours was hampered by the poor home record under Robins.

Poor defending and goalkeeping for both goals tonight and the usual scapegoat didn’t play.

MVE takes so many unnecessary risks with his back passes it’s a real Achilles heel in his game.
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Mve with that panicked punt to no one for their first too
 
Otis

Otis

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covcity4life said:
Shame to concede to shit keeping and a terrible defence mistake but not too down. We did alright and still all to play for in second leg.

Would go back to Simms for that one
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Yeah, same here.

When you lose to a really bad backpass, it doesn't matter how well you played. We gifted them a goal.

It's not over though. Sunderland surely won't play like that again on Tuesday.
 
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