Much more home support than usual tonight I thought. Admittedly mainly the Herman’s Hermit’s shtick, but lots of singing regardless.
While it's definitely true that Delap's injury and the lack of an adequate replacement has cost us, the above bit is cack. We don't score enough because we don't convert enough chances, not because we don't create enough. If you look at the record of the current top ten teams in the table as I just did, we are 9th at how many times we score per shot on target, only 29% compared to West Brom and Preston, 1st and 2nd with over 40% conversion rate. However if you look at shots per game, we're 6th, shots on target per game 5th, shots on target as percentage of total shots we're 4th. We create, but we don't finish enough, as seen tonight. But yeah, let's blame the tippy tappy football. P.S. West Brom and Preston are the worst teams in the championship in terms of total shots and shots on target, it's just their conversion rates which keep them in the promotion race.
I was responding to the post that suggested the players will be loving the style of football and be happy they're in the play off places. I would suggest Zaroury enjoyed last season far better.
It's pretty simple really. We have absolutely nobody in the squad that has a goal scoring, killer instinct. We are effortless in our build up and then you can just see it....we just don't know what to do.
The goal was coming, when you miss three or four reasonable chances to go 2 up, then its kind of inevitable. tbh they weren't great, but sort of deserved it for staying in it....
I agree it gets frustrating at the back, it’s to slow and gets frustrating but first half tonight our forward line had enough of the ball in the last third to have scored 3/4. Our chances ended up going wide or way over the bar or at times they tried to walk it in.
Any side in this league will get a chance and be capable of scoring, whether you put a near perfect defensive performance or not. What concerned me is we took the foot of the gas. Got lulled into it at 1-0. Miles the better side, just played as individuals in their final third once we went a goal up. Poor.
The way they play with that much attacking talent is an absolute travesty. Rosie is still okay but my faith is waining.
I thought the atmosphere was pretty good. Best I lve experienced at the KC/MKM for ages. From a pretty small sample in comparison to most of you though to be fair. I woke up this morning feeling fine,....
I think it is clear by now the atmosphere will sound different depending on where you're sitting. From E10 it was like a morgue for large parts of the game, bit of atmosphere in fits and bursts.
Never saw the game(working) so can't comment on what went wrong but it's a disappointing and unexpected result...For me,not my bookie!!! Huge game on Saturday and wouldn't put it past us doing the double over them because we're.... Hull City. UTT.
Same old story again. Was anyone honestly surprised by that result? It's not even that the shots we got off were poor. We're basically not direct enough at all and end up working the ball back to outside the box before pulling the trigger with multiple defenders in the way. We skied a lot of shots tonight but many of them would have been blocked well before they got anywhere near the keeper. Said ages ago when we beat Sheffield Wednesday - we can't rely on scoring worldies every game... Yet we still rely on exactly that. We simply don't create enough cut and dry chances. In open play the only 'team goal' I can recall us scoring was Ohio vs Rotherham, and they're essentially a League 1 side and we only got 2 goals in that game thanks to a Puskas contender on top of Ohio's finish. Most other goals we score are us relying on moments of individual brilliance. A squad with this amount of quality in it should be able to score more than 2 goals a game. The problem is not as simple as 'bad shots' or 'poor decision making'. We simply don't have purpose when we have possession.
We do we have the instinct in sharp, who's 38 and can't run, we have the pace in Ohio who's absolutely as raw as someone who's flitted about 5 clubs already despite only being 21, then we have a genuine talent in the u21s who when his body is right his head isn't and vice versa. Just pray were not out of it in April and Delap comes back. In upper west you could hear pockets in N and E trying, to their credit. but that swell of noise around the ground that spurs a side on- it seems like the crowd is waiting for the team to inspire them, and the team is waiting for the crowd to inspire them, and no one knows what to do for a while so it falls flat. All too often at home.
I would say Connolly is a pretty instinctive goal scorer. On another note, so is Oscar. Neither can get a game for us whilst we play central midfielders and wingers up front instead.
Good first half but should have been more ruthless. Second half they made changes and immediately looked better, we made changes and got worse. Philogene made so many poor decisions in and around the box. Always trying to complicate an easy pass or shot. So frustrating to watch.. For me this was typical rosieball.. it's too slow, too pedestrian and just isn't designed to be ruthless. Works brilliantly if your 3-0 up and try to run the clock down, terrible if you need a goal.
You won't hear me disagreeing with any of that. The worry has to be the miles better side, manages to let them back in it when they should have been dead and buried...Too many dropped points at home will be the nail in City's playoff coffin. We've still got three banana skins to come in the shape of Stoke, QPR and Middlesbro. Not to mention Leicester and Ipswich.
