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Match Thread Coventry City - Portsmouth FC Match Thread - Wednesday 9th Apr (1 Viewer)

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quinn1971

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  • Apr 7, 2025
  • #141
Otis said:
Hope you're right
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we’ve just had the toughest run of games any teams had, and we’re still right in there, if we want play offs can’t worry about these games, reckon we’ve got the best run in now out the lot, back to that winning run
 
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mark_ccfc

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  • Apr 7, 2025
  • #142
I am hopeful for a result, I don't think we have played badly in the last three games, we just need to get a bit of momentum going again.
 
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Legia Sky Blue

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  • Apr 7, 2025
  • #143
We really ought to have too much for Portsmouth, but they will be heartened by the game at their place where they bullied us to defeat. I expect they will try a similar approach and for that reason I would leave Allen and Dasilva out in favour of Bidwell and Sheaf to give us a bit more muscle.

Therefore:
Wilson
Van Ewijk Thomas Kitching Bidwell
Sheaf Rudoni Grimes
Sakamoto Wright Mason-Clarke
 
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Ibby

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #144
Need to win..
 
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long way home

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #145
Id love the Perfect night of 3 points, clean sheet, no injuries, back in the top 6 and closer to the 70 pts i think we need to get in..

Unfortunately i don't see us having a perfect night or end to the season. In my opinion losing Dovin will be the major factor in us falling short. But lets see, i hope i have this completely wrong and we get back to winning ways.
 
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Lamps

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #146
I can see this being a backs to the wall game by Portsmouth and we struggle to score. If not we will get a few.
 
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quinn1971

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #147
long way home said:
Id love the Perfect night of 3 points, clean sheet, no injuries, back in the top 6 and closer to the 70 pts i think we need to get in..

Unfortunately i don't see us having a perfect night or end to the season. In my opinion losing Dovin will be the major factor in us falling short. But lets see, i hope i have this completely wrong and we get back to winning ways.
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Agreed we might miss dovin but we’ve got a decent keeper in Wilson to come in, ok we had a better defence but bad keepers don’t win a golden glove, wouldn’t write Wilson off, he’ll be ok
 

itsabuzzard

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #148
covcity4life said:
It shouldn't need to be explained.
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Not everyone has their finger on the pulse in quite the same way you do.
 

Johhny Blue

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #149
Otis said:
Hmmm ...didn't Derby have 10 players missing when they played us?
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They beat us with one player?
 
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Hobo

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #150
Johhny Blue said:
They beat us with one player?
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That's the way it seemed, or was it most of ours went missing
 
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Ashdown

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #151
We can’t go and get bullied again. Da Silva and Allen looked like primary school kids against Burnley. We need Simms in, EMC out too at least to try and present a threat to start.
 
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SleepyGinger

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #152
Same team and a 2-1 win. If we can’t win this then we don’t deserve a play off place.
 
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Macca1987

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #153
EMC has had 2 poor games now, I appreciate they were against Sheff Utd and Burnley, but maybe time to put Simms in middle and Wright on the left, EMC can come on later to run against tired defenders
 
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Sky Blue Goblin

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #154
Would personally go with this. I think Grimes does better when left as the sole DM as against Sunderland then when we add a partner in a 4-2-3-1 like Burnley.

Wilson has to come in for me. Also think Sheaf can help us win some balls higher up the pitch. EMC to start on the bench, if nothing else to give him a break following his return to the squad.

 
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Sbarcher

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #155
Boro and BC have hard games tonight, but we could find ourselves 4 points adrift after their games. Need the win tomorrow to stay in touch or we might just let our heads drop and fall away.
We need to be at them from the start and keep Rudoni in a forward position. It was noticeable on Saturday he was drifting too far back for me.
 

shmmeee

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #156
Worst case tonight:

Boro 63
Bristol 63
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City 59
WBA 57
Millwall 57

Best case tonight:

Boro 60
WBA 60
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Bristol 60
City 59
Millwall 54

Think if Millwall don’t win tonight they’re gone. If WBA lose and we win tomorrow they won’t be far off gone either.
 
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SkyB

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #157
We win this one comfortably. Pompey are bottom half with nothing to play for; could play my nan in goal and we'd still win.

Should be a case of running up the goal difference 3 or 4 as there struggling in the CB region at the minute which suits our crossing game.

I'd bring Sheaf in for Allen as the only change.
 

mmttww

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #158
Collins

MVE
Thomas
Kitching
Dasilva

Sheaf
Grimes
Rudoni

Sakamoto
Wright
EMC

If Wilson can be trusted to sweep and support playing the higher line, put him in. Don't think EMC was any noticeably worse than Sakamoto in the last two games tbh so I don't see the need to drop him.
 

covcity4life

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #159
Don't get feeling lampard sees wright as a LW
 
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Bernie Rhodes Nose

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #160
Sky Blue Goblin said:
Would personally go with this. I think Grimes does better when left as the sole DM as against Sunderland then when we add a partner in a 4-2-3-1 like Burnley.

Wilson has to come in for me. Also think Sheaf can help us win some balls higher up the pitch. EMC to start on the bench, if nothing else to give him a break following his return to the squad.

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I would stick with Collins. We need to distribution from the back is going to play a big part in our game plan (yes I know Collins blah blah blah...)
 
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Sky Blue Goblin

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #161
Bernie Rhodes Nose said:
I would stick with Collins. We need to distribution from the back is going to play a big part in our game plan (yes I know Collins blah blah blah...)
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Before I go blah blah blah on you . I think if we play Grimes as the sole DM as he has been, he naturally tucks in more meaning you don’t necessarily need the keepers distribution.

But even I can see Collins is clever with his distribution.
 
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Sky Blue Goblin

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #162
covcity4life said:
Don't get feeling lampard sees wright as a LW
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Similar feeling but he did play him as a LW against Derby so who knows
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #163
Ashdown said:
We can’t go and get bullied again. Da Silva and Allen looked like primary school kids against Burnley. We need Simms in, EMC out too at least to try and present a threat to start.
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Da silva was excellent one of our better players
 
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Grendel

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #164
Sky Blue Pete said:
Da silva was excellent on of our better players
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He really wasn't excellent
 
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covcity4life

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #165
Sky Blue Goblin said:
Similar feeling but he did play him as a LW against Derby so who knows
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Did he? Towards the end?
 

Sky Blue Goblin

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #166
covcity4life said:
Did he? Towards the end?
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He started him as a winger if I’m not wrong and played Simms up top?

Edit: yeah he did based on this lineup

 
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Balli001

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #167
covcity4life said:
Did he? Towards the end?
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No whole game until Simms went off
 
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lord_garrincha

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #168
We've shipped in goals as a back 4 with alarming regularity all season, and it has not mattered who has been in goal.

That is the problem & if we lose tomorrow, that will probably be the reason. Not whoever is in goal.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want Collins in, and we know Wilson is not an upgrade... but lets not kid ourselves... if any of them turned into prime Neuer overnight, we are not going to have 9 clean sheets on the spin!
 
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Chicken Mcgraw

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #169
Atmosphere will be lacking without the drum and the game has been made much tougher without Lampard being on the touch line. What a ridiculous and immature sending off it was. Hope it doesn’t cost us the play offs come the end of the season.
 

Warwickhunt

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #170
They shouldn't need a team talk tonight as they were totally embarrassing against them! Their guts should be burning for revenge and looking to reduce our goals against column.
 

clint van damme

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #171
SkyB said:
could play my nan in goal
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That would certainly increase our chances of conceding less than 2
 

WestEndAgro

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #172
Warwickhunt said:
They shouldn't need a team talk tonight as they were totally embarrassing against them! Their guts should be burning for revenge and looking to reduce our goals against column.
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Yep, we definitely won't concede tonight, I'd wager big money on it.
 
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David O'Day

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #173
Warwickhunt said:
They shouldn't need a team talk tonight as they were totally embarrassing against them! Their guts should be burning for revenge and looking to reduce our goals against column.
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they shouldn't need a team talk tonight as the game is tomorrow
 
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shmmeee

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  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #174
WestEndAgro said:
Yep, we definitely won't concede tonight, I'd wager big money on it.
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Cant see us scoring either though. Lampard Out.
 

edgy

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 8, 2025
  • #175
Portsmouth's away record is horrendous. 9 defeats in the last 10 away matches.

Take our nerves away from the conversation, this fixture is the best opportunity we could've hoped for after the last 3 games. It has to be be 3 points, no excuses.
 
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