Southampton will probably make play offs even if they dont beat Wrexham, so I can't agree.
Match Day Thread Hull City v Coventry
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They say never fall in love with a loan player but I am finding it very hard with Amir.
The guy is the best midfielder I have seen play for us in pretty much the last five years. He is that good. Everything goes though him. If you put a runner Slater/Collyer it makes him and them look even better.
Aside from injuries, there can’t be anymore starts for Lundstram or Crooks (as an 8), tonight we bossed the midfield.
The guy is the best midfielder I have seen play for us in pretty much the last five years. He is that good. Everything goes though him. If you put a runner Slater/Collyer it makes him and them look even better.
Aside from injuries, there can’t be anymore starts for Lundstram or Crooks (as an 8), tonight we bossed the midfield.
'It's always a big battle' - Hull reaction
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Jakirovic after draw with league leaders Coventry
Hull City boss Sergej Jakirovic told BBC Radio Humberside:
"I saw a good game as we were faced with the best team in the league. They are in first place and I'm happy for the lads because they played very well since the first minute - we started very strong.
"I can say we took control and won possession, especially we had very good combinations and tried to press them to create some chances.
"Also we didn't allow too much, which is great because we are struggling all season with clean sheets and I'm happy for the lads they put everything into it today.
"Unfortunately we didn't win the game, but we have to continue like this.
"It's always a big battle. Both teams had very good organisation and tactical discipline, so it's not easy because they are a great team. I saw that we can compete with them, which is a great message to us."
'I loved it' - Coventry reaction
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Lampard post Hull City draw
Coventry City head coach Frank Lampard told BBC Radio CWR:
"I loved it. It's a clean sheet and point. The pitch is really difficult, and not conducive to how we want to play but we had to deal with it.
"And I thought once we rode the early moments of the game, we grabbed it in the first half and started to play a little bit.
"In football, you can't have it all your own way. And when you are under pressure, as we were at different parts of the game, I loved how the team dug in and did all the right things.
"We have five games to go and to be in the position we're in, from our point of view, we need to cut out the noise and just deal with Sheffield Wednesday in front of us.
"Everyone will expect us to win it [Saturday's match against Wednesday] from the outside, but we have to put that to the side and approach the game with real professionalism.
"It may not get us absolutely over the line, but we will know it makes it a lot, lot closer."
Hes better when he plays higher, hes not a typical 'sitting' midfielder. Hes impoving and we are defo a better side when he plays.
Despite some thinking we look pedestrian against good sides, that was a terrific performance in a long line of good performances against good sides. Bodes very well for the play offs if that's where we end up. Crooks terrific to rebound from a quieter game against Oxford, Collyer and Amir much better at the base of midfield as I'd hoped for, and Gelhardt unsurprisingly more involved when able to cut in from the right. Very encouraging display.
I thought he was sitting today and was quite good alongside Collyer. Crooks was higher up the pitch more often and linked up well with the other attackers.
How can you think Gelhardt out wide isn't his best? He looks immeasurably better out there than in the 10.
It leaves them less likely to pass us, it’s the best result for us. We need to do what we need to do. Wrexham win is better for us.
Tonight was the first time we've got through a home game without conceding a set piece goal since Blackburn in the cup on January 11th.
He wasn't.
Collyer was sitting. Amir was positioned alongside him in the formation on paper but he was constantly pushing and pressing out higher up because we controlled central midfield.
Amir was certainly more of that 'box to box' role than Collyer, but he was sat deeper than Crooks who was at the tip of the midfield three. Crooks was almost a second striker at times.
He really wasn't - he spent a lot of the game up with Crooks. Lots of times we'd be pressing their defence and Amir was up there with them (McBurnie, Crooks, Millar and Gelhardt) whilst Collyer was sitting in front of our backline cleaning up loose balls.
Yep, as I said, box to box. He was also collecting the ball and clearing the ball out of our box and recycling the ball.
You can check his heat map from the game which is very similar to Collyer in terms of where he picked up his touches - maybe a fraction more in our attacking half than Toby but both reflected a deeper position than Crooks. He certainly had more licence to get forward than Collyer though, that's for sure.
You can check his heat map from the game which is very similar to Collyer in terms of where he picked up his touches - maybe a fraction more in our attacking half than Toby but both reflected a deeper position than Crooks. He certainly had more licence to get forward than Collyer though, that's for sure.
Just sat and watched some short highlights, but based on the comments here we were better than the highlights..
I hope Serge says to the players 'see, this how good you can be, and yet you probably have 10/20% more to give'...
the only difference it seems between Coventry and us is that they have been at it against the teams we should have been mullering...
On Amirs foul Grimes booking, was that that that much different to Hughes at WBA...?
I hope Serge says to the players 'see, this how good you can be, and yet you probably have 10/20% more to give'...
the only difference it seems between Coventry and us is that they have been at it against the teams we should have been mullering...
On Amirs foul Grimes booking, was that that that much different to Hughes at WBA...?
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I thought the same, could easily have been red. Amir had a great opportunity to get through and get a shot away that was denied to him.
In fairness to the players, I would say the way we set up today really allowed us to play our game. We could all see the midfield didn't work on Friday, but having Amir and Collyer in there really gave us a lot more dynamism and mobility than Lunny and Crooks.
No it wasn’t hence why our players weren’t happy. It was maybe further out.
Some people on social media said the ref was good, I thought he was awful once again. It wasn’t a difficult game too ref, but he was inconsistent, two particular highlights where Lundstrum been pulled for handball when their player did exactly the same thing in exactly the same part of the pitch in the first half, and when Da Silva took a free kick early but miss kicked it too himself and the ref felt sorry for him and let him have another go. There were many more.
He particularly doesn’t like Mcburnie so much so he made up a foul in the last game he reffed against us v Millwall, when he lets the oppositions strikers use their hands at free will. Mcburnie literally gets his hands held behind him most of the game and gets nothing, ok he is the master of the dark arts but since Xmas refs have given him nothing.
Da Silva retook because the ref had asked our player (perhaps Belloumi?) to back up multiple times and he didn't. Was perhaps lucky not to get a yellow if anything.
Hughes was half a yard out of the area, albeit down the side rather than central.
Grimes was closer to halfway than his own area