Great result,a more open side like Coventry makes it much easier for us .Clean sheet against such a free-scoring team is also a real bonus. Just hope we can follow it up with a good showing on Wednesday. COYB!!!
I'll take that! We are much more effective against teams that actually want to attack. Just need to find a way to get early goals against those teams that want to sit back so the game opens up. Still stand by my prediction that we will be top 2 by Christmas.
Still lots of areas to improve on in terms of performance but a better 2nd half after we rode our luck in a pretty awful first half. Thought apart from a few misplaced passes and catching the ball outside of his box, Walton was superb and has to keep the shirt whether Palmer is fit or not. I think Palmer is a better shot stopper but Walton's all round game is better. CBs were both okay, Kipre particularly in the 2nd half. The rest of the team had good and bad moments throughout the match. Really pleased that Hirst scored after missing another 1vs1 credit to him for it not getting in his head and great to see us finally finding him with some of his runs rather than him playing with his back to goal which isn't his strength. I think both him and Azor are good players that forward line just haven't got the best out of them yet. Of course part of the fact we we able to get Hirst and others in was because Coventry were commiting men forwards but what was pleasing was we seemed much better at actually trying to get the ball forwards quicker. That pass by Nunez with his weaker foot was superb but what the hell were Coventry CBs doing. There still lots of room for improvement in performance, we made it a scrappy affair partly to stop Coventry playing but also partly because we were sloppy. Even in the latter stages of the game when we were getting breaks on them, there were some really poor simple passes we werent able to make. I also thought our discipline was pretty poor with Hirst should really have been sent off, Kipre also kicking the ball away and even Walton grabbing the ball outside his box, there's clearly not top levels of confidence or a togetherness quite there yet. Still need to find the balance in those forward positions, Nunez got better second half and he's definitely an option in the 10, I also think Cajuste would be but then that leaves us extremely short in midfield. I also think Egeli looks like a 10 and I thought actually Clarke looked better on the right when he came on, being much more direct rather than constantly checking back and running into trouble. Hopefully this is really now an opportunity to build on and start getting results to remain in touching distance of the top 2 before 'clicking' in the new year.
