Match Thread Coventry City - Oxford United Match Thread - Saturday 7th Feb (14 Viewers)

Lamps said:

Oh yes Andy Turner. Knows everything when needed and just copies other people the rest of the time. A political reporter as his day job these days that somehow is also a football reporter.

Lovely bloke. Will do anything to help anyone. But like on here people only see what they want to see. It takes game time for a player to settle in. They have good and bad games. I'm not going to write someone off for not being excellent from the start.

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I'm not writing him off. I'm saying he was pretty average in the game he played left back. In fact i've been an advocate of him playing more and having more rotation with Milan. It goes back to Frank not trusting him, and therefore flogged Milan to the point where he's knackered.

I don't rate Dasilva, but swapping him for KKH if we are playing a right footed one the left wing means we lose balance. Whilst Dasilva is out of position a lot, I do think it's mainly tactics. I watched the Charlton highlights and looks where KKH is when we lose possession.

stupot07 said:

I'm not writing him off. I'm saying he was pretty average in the game he played left back. In fact i've been an advocate of him playing more and having more rotation with Milan. It goes back to Frank not trusting him, and therefore flogged Milan to the point where he's knackered.

I don't rate Dasilva, but swapping him for KKH if we are playing a right footed one the left wing means we lose balance. Whilst Dasilva is out of position a lot, I do think it's mainly tactics. I watched the Charlton highlights and looks where KKH is when we lose possession.

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That could be any match over the last month or two. Both full backs caught beyond the ball on the transition. We could play Cafu and Roberto Carlos in this team with these tactics and the results would be the same.

Otis said:

Not wishing to get involved or escalate any argument, but Fernando has been posting on here for nearly 15 years and I have always found him really decent.

Anyway, back to the game. For anyone who watched the Sheff Ufd game last night, how were Oxford? Did they look a poor side, or did they look like they could get something out of the game for large periods?

What should we expect on Saturday we think?

They're obviously fighting for their lives. He interested to know if their heads dropped at all after going behind, or did they keep going?

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Some comments on their forum after the game last night:

I think a bigger problem is that we don’t actually create chances for them to miss. It’s been a problem since we got into the championship.

We lose the midfield every game

It feels like we are a shambles

Can Bloomfield have some balls and revert back to his attacking style he had at previous clubs rather than this scared defensive Rowett style s**t. would just like a rational explanation to why we are trying to play 5 at the back when we didn’t have a single player suited to the wing back role available? Added to this, in the two games Bloomfield started with a back four we got two clean sheets. Utterly confusing.

We make it so easy for teams to play against us, regardless of any difference in quality. Hurry the defence and they’ll smash an aimless ball, pack the midfield and they’ll never find a pass, stick tight to the forward and they’ll give away a pointless foul.

Better performance last night, some of the time. Certainly better than under Rowett. Although still not good enough and no way near enough fight.

Tommo1993 said:

Should definitely be looking to reassert dominance. Someone somewhere will try and say it’s not a must win though.

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That'll be me.

I think we'll batter them 4-0.

Frank the Tank to run someone over in the first 5 minutes, get the crowd going and we romp home to victory.

One thing I’d like us to do is leave 1/2 players up from corners. QPR left 3 and a couple times from our corners they countered us and I think got a shot off on goal from one and gained a corner from another. Rather than have all 11 back and just keep inviting pressure

CCFCMember said:

One thing I’d like us to do is leave 1/2 players up from corners. QPR left 3 and a couple times from our corners they countered us and I think got a shot off on goal from one and gained a corner from another. Rather than have all 11 back and just keep inviting pressure

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I'd agree but on recent evidence Wright and Simms are more effective in defending our box than they are attacking the opponent's.

edgy said:

I'd agree but on recent evidence Wright and Simms are more effective in defending our box than they are attacking the opponent's.

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Assuming the normal setup with Onyeka in for Torp I think it would be Esse/EMC, MvE and Saka I’d leave up

edgy said:

I'd agree but on recent evidence Wright and Simms are more effective in defending our box than they are attacking the opponent's.

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Yep fast nippy players esse and mve for instance

stupot07 said:

I'm not writing him off. I'm saying he was pretty average in the game he played left back. In fact i've been an advocate of him playing more and having more rotation with Milan. It goes back to Frank not trusting him, and therefore flogged Milan to the point where he's knackered.

I don't rate Dasilva, but swapping him for KKH if we are playing a right footed one the left wing means we lose balance. Whilst Dasilva is out of position a lot, I do think it's mainly tactics. I watched the Charlton highlights and looks where KKH is when we lose possession.

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he's playing LWB in that game, he is meant to be that far forward