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If we hadn't conceded such a stupid goal people would be praising this first half for our positive intent. Preston's back 3 playing deeper and narrower than ours have. Means that all the space is in the pocket for O'Hare but there's very little space centrally in their back line so everything...

Hamer is worth the 10 quid match pass on his own. I wonder if it hurts Ostigard's acne when he heads the ball that hard.

So much space out there. We've started positively for an away game so we're leaving spaces and Preston look like a team not used to playing this formation.

Giles needs to attack the box more tonight, his crosses would have to be out of this world with Godden, O'Hare and Allen to aim at.

Preston's overall home form has been poor but they've beaten Middlesbrough and Bristol City without conceding in their last 2 matches: Not a lot going on goalwise in the first half at home for them, Scored 3 conceded 3 in 10 games: Their Home half time scores: vs our away HT scores: All...

The bit I liked was where they suggested it was the formation we play that is the reason for Kasta not getting many opportunities!

Always feel bad for him because he's such a lovely bloke and that playoff final goal :love: but I've never seen a fullback who gets beaten to the byline with such simple regularity as Grimmer. Always felt he didn't get tight enough to the crosser because he was worried about getting beaten for...

Godden was never going to last 90 minutes so I think we got it right yesterday in terms of having a go in the first half when we were at our strongest and then settling for a point vs the usual of making it to half time at 0-0 and then trying to nick it. Thought the subs were a little slow to be...

Needs players around him to play with, had it last week due to his deeper position and did again today because we were at home and, for the first half at least, playing a more adventurous game. Earlier in the season we we just putting balls into channels for our AMs to chase and you need certain...

Maybe we're just picking Sam McCallum's price tag. It's more important than how you play.

FFS. O'Hare had decided he was going to try for a pen before he even got there.

Everything O'Hare does is 100 miles an hour. He needs to get better at knowing when to to take a touch and slow down, overall his decision making is terrible. So many of his good qualities get let down by it.

Considering the size of their cente backs, Stoke have played a generously high line. We've set up like the home team too, wing backs are getting up the pitch and the lines are closer together so we look a much more coherent team because of it. Neither conditions or pitch look great, so...

He's thin and long, we should start calling him Julienne DaCosta.

From the offal: Sky Blues Xl: Ben Wilson (GK), Fankaty Dabo, Leo Ostigard, Kyle McFadzean (C), Dom Hyam, Sam McCallum, Ben Sheaf, Jamie Allen, Gustavo Hamer, Callum O'Hare, Matty Godden. Subs: Lee Camp (GK), Josh Pask, Ryan Giles, Julien Dacosta, Jordan Shipley, Marcel Hilssner, Will Bapaga...

Ha! They took it down, guess he is being replaced on the bench by Biamou who I think was missing.

They've only lost to teams in the top 10 and haven't conceded away from home for 5 games. Away to teams in the bottom half: P7 W3 D4 L0 GF 4 GA 0. Everything points to an awful first 75 minutes and then a bit of end to end footy when it opens up. From 10 away matches: 5-4 City it is then!

You're probably right, I didn't phrase that well - terrible in the context of how they'd been playing earlier in the season and at full strength. They were no better than a bang average Champ team on the day - they lost 3-1 to Luton in the very next game before they got their star players back...

'Full internationals, top flight experience, league leaders'. You're playing the game on paper that's why it's baffling to you.

And missing Pukki, Buendia and Cantwell i.e. all their goals and creativity, with no recognised striker on the pitch and a defensive midfielder at LB. I'm not sure if you watched that game but they were terrible, absolutely there for the taking. We decided to play Bakayoko, who hadn't played a...