Match Thread Coventry City - Bristol City FC Match Thread - Saturday 13th Dec (100 Viewers)

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Mucca Mad Boys

Mucca Mad Boys

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skybluelee said:
Its a 46 game season. 5 games ago we were 5 points ahead of Middlesbrough. Since then we've played Middlesbrough (2nd), Ipswich (4th) and Preston (5th) away and we're still 5 points ahead of them.
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Yes and all those teams need to come to our place. We’ve only lost 3 games in 27 home games under Lampard.

In fact, all of our ‘6 pointers’ in 2026 will be at home (including Ipswich at home on the 29th). Ipswich, Leicester, Southampton, Boro, Stoke, PNE, Millwall all need to our place.
 
skybluelee

skybluelee

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Mucca Mad Boys said:
Yes and all those teams need to come to our place. We’ve only lost 3 games in 27 home games under Lampard.

In fact, all of our ‘6 pointers’ in 2026 will be at home (including Ipswich at home on the 29th). Ipswich, Leicester, Southampton, Boro, Stoke, PNE, Millwall all need to our place.
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Can't underestimate how crucial that could be.
 
AOM

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3-1 win, but think we're going to see two tired teams out there with the third game this week. Especially on a depleted squad.
Hopefully playing a day earlier than Bristol City in the week will give us an advantage
 
Mucca Mad Boys

Mucca Mad Boys

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skybluelee said:
Can't underestimate how crucial that could be.
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Exactly, and none of those listed have good away form. Ipswich and Southampton have 12 points away from 9 and 10 games respectively. In short, we’re in a positive place because after the New Year, we’d have got all the toughest away games out of the way so you’d expect our away form to uptick again. We’ve got to repeat what we did last season where we beat all the teams around us at home.

It’s a rare exception when a team averages 2 ppg away from home. The only teams to do it are Burnley (twice), Norwich and Wolves since the dark days of L2.
 
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StrettoBoy

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StrettoBoy said:
I won't stop worrying until we are ten points clear with three games to go 🤣
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I should, of course, have added that even then I will probably worry that we will get a points deduction, our ground won't meet the Premier League's requirements or clubs whose name begins with the letter "C" will be banned from being promoted.

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stevefloyd

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First and foremost we need to start keeping clean sheets again and get back to scoring goals as incredible as its been really need to get back to winning ways...no wet bed tomorrow only tears of joy
 
prufrock

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SkyblueTexan said:
EMC was offside. Can’t complain. Officials were decent for once and not to win against 10 men for more than half the match was disappointing.
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i think the ref and lino got the big decisions right (the sending off and the offside goal) but at the match i thought preston were allowed to steal about 10 yards for their throw (which led to the equaliser) but bobby thomas was told every time, and i mean every single time, to be exactly where the ref wanted him. if the ref is going to be pedantic about where to take throw in's surely he has to be the same for both teams? Just like DaSilva and Rudoni were not alive to the quick thow and run down the wing equally we needed the ref to be switched on too. it's a bit like the oxford brannagan goal. yes we should have moved the wall when the ball got moved but the ref needs to prevent it happening too.

as well as the throw EMC got penalised right at the end for pretty much nothing when we were in a really great position. eccles get also clattered and injured quite early in the match which looked a yellow. first 20 most of the preston players were just roughing us up with little to no protection from the ref. it's probably just watching the game not as a neutral but whilst the ref and lino were clearly better than recent i still thought they weren't as neutral as they could have been.
 
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Skybluekyle

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Gint11 said:
Not for me.
Lino flagged for everything and lots of good interventions and tackles were given to them and ref and Lino couldn’t wait to give it
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The lino certainly could and did wait to give the offside for the offside goal. Fortunately I thought it was close and looked over to see the linesman did not run back towards the centre circle so was kind of expecting the flag to eventually go up - my only issue was he could have flagged a bit quicker.

Although, the linesman also didn't rush up the field after the deflected goal so he kind of shat my up with that, as I pondered for a minute what exactly it could be ruled out for..
 
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Skybluekyle

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Anyway, tomorrow, I think it's just a win anyway we can.

Don't get me wrong I would not be suicidal if we didn't, unlike maybe some on here, but it would just be nice to get back to winning ways and this is a very good opportunity to do so.
 
Mucca Mad Boys

Mucca Mad Boys

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Skybluekyle said:
Anyway, tomorrow, I think it's just a win anyway we can.

Don't get me wrong I would not be suicidal if we didn't, unlike maybe some on here, but it would just be nice to get back to winning ways and this is a very good opportunity to do so.
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There’s 6 games before the FA Cup and the 3 ‘bankers’ we should win are Bristol City, Swansea and Charlton. 1-1-1 against Southampton, Ipswich and *shudders* Birmingham is tolerable. 2 wins of that trio would be massive.
 
itsabuzzard

itsabuzzard

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Skybluekyle said:
Anyway, tomorrow, I think it's just a win anyway we can.

Don't get me wrong I would not be suicidal if we didn't, unlike maybe some on here, but it would just be nice to get back to winning ways and this is a very good opportunity to do so.
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It's good to see you're able to put this in to some kind of perspective.
 
Johhny Blue

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StrettoBoy said:
Of course but, after being top for quite a while with a ten point gap, I'm worried that suddenly finding ourselves trailing Middlesborough will cause a loss of confidence and a drop in form that could see us out of the top two. I don't want to see a repeat of what happened under Tony Mowbray.
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There’s always a little extra pressure on the leader. It’s relatively comfortable to lurk in the top 4 or 5
 
Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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Difficult to know who will be available to play, but we really could do with getting a win, no matter how we play, to get back in the winning mindset. Not been too disappointed with the last two performances, just the results.
 
lifeskyblue

lifeskyblue

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Tomorrow an important game for the team and supporters. We have believed a lot of hype this season and the dose of reality this last week has thrown the cat among the pigeons for many supporters. Win tomorrow and all will settle down again but draw or lose and the melt down by some will be interesting to say the least.
I think Lampard will send us out to be on the front foot from the off and to keep up the pressure throughout
 
Great_Expectations

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Slight fear the fickleness of our fans may emerge tomorrow if we don’t start well or even worse, concede.

Even worse, as fans get desperate we might even hear the dinosaur “Forward” shout too.
 
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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Johhny Blue said:
Was EMC offside? I was livid at the time because Wright looked OK (for once) but I haven’t gone back to check
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For me no, he wasn't offside because the ball was not passed to him, it hit a Preston Defender and deflected into EMC path. 🤔
 
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