Match Thread Coventry City - Sheffield Wednesday Match Thread - Saturday 11th Apr (98 Viewers)

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fatso

fatso

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jto123 said:
I think there were three attacking chances:

Rudoni trying to hit under the wall
Haji trying a volley and fluffing
BTA trying a volley and missing

all of those smacked of complacency. No way would they have done that against Boro. We’ve had a good season, but that was a complacent performance.
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Worryingly for me was watching Frank being unable to inject any urgency into our play.
Despite dominating the later stages, the lack of quality and poor decision making was obvious.

Not playing Wright and Simms together was an error, and the wingers taking way too long to deliver a cross was poor.
Esse should of been on after 30 minutes, as we were crying out for the balance he would of offered.

We didn't need Onyeka and Grimes against Wednesday, we needed a more attacking midfielder like Torp, or Eccles.
And Rudoni should of been playing more advanced instead of BTA who looked off the pace and lacked any sharpness.
 
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Macca

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Boro are the only (absolute outside) threat now and I think they will no longer be even that come end of next weekend. Would i like us to win the league of course but if we run out of steam after the season we have had I'm not crying about it
 
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Sky Blue 1987

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oneofourown said:
My God some of you are worse than my 4 year old, talk about throwing a strop. We still got a point from a team that is down and has only one thing to play for, pride. We could have played all day but we wouldn't have scored, it was that type of game, and the crazy thing is if Boro don't get anything we are as good as up.
It shows how lacking in humility many of our supporters have become if they think we 'should' win every game, and it was written in the stars we will do it in front of our fabulous away fans at Blackburn rather than in front of a record crowd where many have never been before, I say that as I know three Liverpool fans who live in Coventry get tickets and went to see the game.
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Give it a rest mate, any of us who have watched this team all season know we should have been better today, we were shit and it looks like the nerves or complacency are setting in
 
lifeskyblue

lifeskyblue

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Thought Wednesday played some decent football till they tired. We were indecisive in final third and not quick enough to move the ball. Lots of possession but didn’t make enough of it. Not enough intensity or passion from the team or fans.
 
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jto123

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fatso said:
Worryingly for me was watching Frank being unable to inject any urgency into our play.
Despite dominating the later stages, the lack of quality and poor decision making was obvious.

Not playing Wright and Simms together was an error, and the wingers taking way too long to deliver a cross was poor.
Esse should of been on after 30 minutes, as we were crying out for the balance he would of offered.

We didn't need Onyeka and Grimes against Wednesday, we needed a more attacking midfielder like Torp, or Eccles.
And Rudoni should have been playing instead of BTA who looked off the pace and lacked any sharpness.
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It was a carbon copy of Oxford. We should have been high in intensity from the start. Allowing them to drift with throw ins. I think we all got sucked into thinking it would happen automatically (even Frank).
 
duffer

duffer

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Otis said:
It can be, but can also be down to nerves
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I take your point mate, but (entirely in my opinion) they didn't look nervous, they looked like they thought they'd win the game without really trying.

If we'd got into them early, played it like it was a cup final, then the place would have lifted off and I'm sure we'd have turned them over by a few.

Instead we just knocked the ball around in the expectation Wednesday would slip up, and they didn't. Then it all went flat and we couldn't step it up. Immensely frustrating.

We'll still go up, I'm sure, and Lampard has still done an amazing job, but it just hurts a bit not putting it to bed today.

Anyhow, worse things happen at sea mate - hope you're well regardless, and onwards and (literally) upwards. 🙂
 
DT-R

DT-R

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Brighton Sky Blue said:
These are the occasions a professional lives for. Not turning up to it is just bizarre.
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Exactly this. If a chance to secure promotion, at home, to an already relegated team, in front of a record attendance crowd, isnt enough to lift you to play your very best, then maybe you should work a 9-5 office job!

Instead, we had players walking around with the ball. Dreadful, forced and often too short passing. Even Grimes gave the ball away an unthinkable amount of times today with poor passing.

We WILL get promoted, but that couldve been today. Yet that dross served up was shocking. Promotion team or not, that performance we've just seen wasnt even sub-par, it was relegation worthy.

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Cally Fedora

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Agreed, not one of Wrights better days but the delivery into the box was awful. Saka delivers a constant stream of quality. BTA asked to do a job out of position is no substitute. We were poor down the other flank as well. The ball back to Dasilva asking him to use his right foot is so frustrating. They must know he can’t deliver with it.
 
skybluecam

skybluecam

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fatso said:
Worryingly for me was watching Frank being unable to inject any urgency into our play.
Despite dominating the later stages, the lack of quality and poor decision making was obvious.

Not playing Wright and Simms together was an error, and the wingers taking way too long to deliver a cross was poor.
Esse should of been on after 30 minutes, as we were crying out for the balance he would of offered.

We didn't need Onyeka and Grimes against Wednesday, we needed a more attacking midfielder like Torp, or Eccles.
And Rudoni should have been playing more advanced instead of BTA who looked off the pace and lacked any sharpness.
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I don’t think you can say not playing 2 strikers was an error when we never do it.

In hindsight obviously BTA shouldn’t have started, but I suspect the thought was he would have similar success as in the away game.
 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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Ipad Boro said:
Only because you get promoted anyway, so both is better than one by itself, which is a no-brainer.

In a straight choice between promotion or the pot, it's promotion every time surely and not even close?

If someone gave you a choice; finish second to Ipswich and go up OR finish first, but on a technicality stay down without the financial windfall of the Prem, etc, Champo again next season (but your name stays on the pot) no one in their right mind would pick the second option.
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Winning things is good
 
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Speedie's Head

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It's no use blaming the strikers! Started slowly and slowed down! We created next to nothing, EMC didn't take his man on until 75 mins! Crossing from the right was poor too while Rudi's touch deserted him (again.)

Adding Onyeka has given us steel but at the expense of the incisive, creative passing and vision that Torp can bring.

A big improvement needed on Friday.
 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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Speedie's Head said:
It's no use blaming the strikers! Started slowly and slowed down! We created next to nothing, EMC didn't take his man on until 75 mins! Crossing from the right was poor too while Rudi's touch deserted him (again.)

Adding Onyeka has given us steel but at the expense of the incisive, creative passing and vision that Torp can bring.

A big improvement needed on Friday.
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Onyeka was a waste of a player today. Gave us nothing on the ball and when you’ve had 70% possession that’s too much to give away. Same as not playing two wingers when we were obviously going to be going wide around the block. Just poor team selection all round really.
 
Grendel

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RoysterE17

RoysterE17

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Everybody today thought it would be a walk over, guessing the players thought the same hence the poor performance today. Lamps selection today didnt help but we will still get the job done. Just performances today just show how ruthless we will have to be in the summer when it comes to the squad
 
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MTK

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Initially felt deflated after that but we’ve struggled in those type of games this season. Reminded me so much of the Oxford game. It’s a fine margins thing. Could easily have won 1-nil - those chances and it looked like handball for that penalty shout. Then the performance would have looked different - solid, determined, ground out a win against a team who played defensively. Disappointed at the quality of a lot of the crosses into the box, and the corners. Quite a few corners didn’t beat the first man. We missed Saka on the right. Whatever the plan was with Rudoni and BTA, it didn’t work. We looked more positive after Esse came on but it was a bit too late. Do it at Blackburn for a night to remember
 
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