Some of the best attacking football weve played for years (7 Viewers)

SKYBLUES90 · 2025-09-13T19:45:11+0100

Positive - Still unbeaten, but the chances created we’ve dropped two points today.

Some of the football we play is a joy to watch, We play around round the park really well and control the majority of games but ultimately that means nothing if we don’t start winning games

(Appreciate we got a point but if we want to push for autos these draws need to be wins).

I fear going forward a lot of teams are going to set
up similar to Norwich today and frustrate us and try nick a goal and win. Tbf teams have been doing this to us for a while, it’s a compliment and shows how far we’ve come when teams like Norwich are having to resort to this.

Shore up the defence and start being more clinical in front of goal and I think we have a real chance this year.

Gynnsthetonic · 2025-09-13T20:13:52+0100

SKYBLUES90 said:
Positive - Still unbeaten, but the chances created we’ve dropped two points today.

Some of the football we play is a joy to watch, We play around round the park really well and control the majority of games but ultimately that means nothing if we don’t start winning games

(Appreciate we got a point but if we want to push for autos these draws need to be wins).

I fear going forward a lot of teams are going to set
up similar to Norwich today and frustrate us and try nick a goal and win. Tbf teams have been doing this to us for a while, it’s a compliment and shows how far we’ve come when teams like Norwich are having to resort to this.

Shore up the defence and start being more clinical in front of goal and I think we have a real chance this year.

We're only 5 games in. The goals will come!

Adge · 2025-09-13T20:18:28+0100

We are a force that’s for sure-that’s if we stay relatively injury free. Not so confident if we have injuries to key players-then you have the likes of Allen and Eccles et al.

clint van damme · 2025-09-13T20:19:56+0100

fatso said:
How can people say we are toothless upfront?
We are quite literally the top scorers in the championship

The last home game, we scored 7, and everything we hit went in.
Today we dominated just as much but didn't have the same luck in front of goal, partly because Norwich pulled players back behind the ball at every opportunity and offered very little up front, and partly because their keeper made a couple of top draw saves.
On another day we score 4.

And in Haji Wright we have the most prolific striker in the championship.

We scored 12 of our goals in 2 games.
QPR in particular was as much of an anomaly as today.
We need to find a way to finish games like Oxford and today.
We're doing well but some of the superlatives are over the top until we turn dominant performances into point consistently.

SeshMouseSkyBlue · 2025-09-13T20:30:14+0100

Grimes range of passing is so good!

mark82 · 2025-09-13T20:38:31+0100

OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Sorry, but unless our strikers and AM start taking their chances, i fear your optimism is premature. Lovely football with no end-product does not win games!

Some stats:
We're top scorers in the league by 3 goals. We have the most shots in the league by 3 goals too.
We have second highest possession in the league behind Southampton.
We have the highest xG in the league, and we are outperforming it by nearly 2 goals. We're third highest in the league in xG differential.

Attack and end product really is not a problem (today aside).

mark82 · 2025-09-13T20:40:51+0100

clint van damme said:
We scored 12 of our goals in 2 games.

I agree, if you take out the games where we've scored goals then we haven't scored any at all.

mark82 · 2025-09-13T20:42:12+0100

Adge said:
We are a force that’s for sure-that’s if we stay relatively injury free. Not so confident if we have injuries to key players-then you have the likes of Allen and Eccles et al.

This is my only concern really. I don't mind Eccles so much, but Allen isn't at the level anymore. And if we lost Torp, the creativity in midfield takes a big hit.

Gynnsthetonic · 2025-09-13T20:44:22+0100

mark82 said:
This is my only concern really. I don't mind Eccles so much, but Allen isn't at the level anymore. And if we lost Torp, the creativity in midfield takes a big hit.

Kai Andrews will be bedded in

clint van damme · 2025-09-13T20:56:02+0100

mark82 said:
I agree, if you take out the games where we've scored goals then we haven't scored any at all.

Not sure what that means! But our stats are massively skewed by 2 high scoring games.

mark82 · 2025-09-13T20:58:14+0100

clint van damme said:
Not sure what that means! But our stats are massively skewed by 2 high scoring games.

I was being a bit facetious.

We scored a lot in 2 games because we are a good team though, and pose an attacking threat. That was clear from today, we were just a little unlucky/wasteful (delete as appropriate).

mark82 · 2025-09-13T21:00:48+0100

mark82 said:
I was being a bit facetious.

We scored a lot in 2 games because we are a good team though, and pose an attacking threat. That was clear from today, we were just a little unlucky/wasteful (delete as appropriate).

Let's put it this way. If we'd scored 4 goals today would anyone argue that it wasn't deserved?

clint van damme · 2025-09-13T21:02:04+0100

mark82 said:
I was being a bit facetious.

We scored a lot in 2 games because we are a good team though, and pose an attacking threat. That was clear from today, we were just a little unlucky/wasteful (delete as appropriate).

But we were also wasteful against Oxford.
It needs addressing, it's no good everything you hit going in in two games then missing a host of chances in another two.
It's early days and I'm sure we'll be fine but if you're assessing the season so far then it's a valid observation of something thats been an issue up to now

covcity4life · 2025-09-13T21:02:26+0100

It was a brilliant performance and so happy we got our equaliser

Even guardiolas best teams had frustrating games like this but the big picture if they won alot of games .we will win alot too

Exciting times

wingy · 2025-09-13T21:16:47+0100

covcity4life said:
It was a brilliant performance and so happy we got our equaliser

Even guardiolas best teams had frustrating games like this but the big picture if they won alot of games .we will win alot too

Exciting times

Changing the subject a little can't remember when it was but Torp in the centre of the park waltzed in and took the ball off one of and showed him his backside before racing away.
It was beautiful to see such timing!

blunted · 2025-09-13T22:01:50+0100

If Norwich had joined in we could have had another 5-4.

covcity4life · 2025-09-13T23:30:18+0100

wingy said:
Changing the subject a little can't remember when it was but Torp in the centre of the park waltzed in and took the ball off one of and showed him his backside before racing away.
It was beautiful to see such timing!

I remember that and thought to myself imagine if we had a physical midfielder like yaya toure and the dimensions it could open up for us

rob9872 · 2025-09-14T00:26:28+0100

Just watched Akex Craig's Vlog, who on earth were the twats who booed us off at HT? Such a disease in the game to boo simply because we were losing. We were so dominant in the first half and played lovely football at times.

Gynnsthetonic · 2025-09-14T00:32:13+0100

rob9872 said:
Just watched Akex Craig's Vlog, who on earth were the twats who booed us off at HT? Such a disease in the game to boo simply because we were losing. We were so dominant in the first half and played lovely football at times.

Probably booing Norwichs timewasting. I doubt it was aimed at the tteam

hill83 · 2025-09-14T00:44:32+0100

And it was £3.60 for a watered down bev

rob9872 · 2025-09-14T00:44:49+0100

Gynnsthetonic said:
Probably booing Norwichs timewasting. I doubt it was aimed at the tteam

Hope you're right, but didn't appear so. Nice to see so many still there when we scored though. A lot of places would be half empty if losing 6 mins into injury time.

covcity4life · 2025-09-14T01:05:57+0100

I've been busy today. Was there bedwetting in the match thread?

AOM · 2025-09-14T01:07:04+0100

rob9872 said:
Just watched Akex Craig's Vlog, who on earth were the twats who booed us off at HT? Such a disease in the game to boo simply because we were losing. We were so dominant in the first half and played lovely football at times.

Heard quite a bit of booing at half time but I assume it was aimed at the referee rather than the team.

Seemed overall positive today and think there was still an expectancy we'd get something from the game even just after they scored

usskyblue · 2025-09-14T01:08:16+0100

It’s funny (weird) how some people can’t see the full picture.

We’re not going to batter every team 7-1, but we will have games (like today) when we create enough chances to batter teams 7-1.

The huge positive is that we're controlling games and creating bucketloads of chances. We won’t always score 7, we won’t always score 1 or 2.. but we are putting ourselves in a position to win every game we play.

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