The current PL record for most yellow cards is 14 (Palhinha, Capoue, Holebas, Cattermole, Tiote, Savage, and Mark Hughes for us). Morsy is already in four for Ipswich! If he breaks the record, he'll also be the first player to hit the three match ban threshold for 15 yellows.
Yeah I can see that logic. Im not sure our current approach will work, so the whilst the gap is small, id rather make the change now so it isn’t a canyon.
We tried to sign him last time in the premier league but city wouldn’t sell. Apparently tried this year and he chose Ipswich. I expect we might have got him if we had stayed up
There's a hell of a lot to admire about Ipswich and their never say die spirit. I sometimes wish that we would play a bit more percentage direct football when the game is on the line in the last 10 minutes.
Maybe our draw against Ipswich wasn’t a total disaster, as Villa couldn’t hold onto their lead either.
Think it was Neville who said that he could only see Ipswich surviving of the promoted teams because us and Leicester had been in the PL too recently so the home fans wouldn’t be as bothered essentially as Ipswich who hadn’t been in the league for 20 years, making Portman road a very hard place to visit. Good result for them today, being hard to beat is not a bad thing even if they still haven’t won a game
I think their tactics in general were admirable in that game. Sit in, and then break at pace where possible. I think Villa's only shot on target, beyond their two goals, was Barkley's long ranger. I'm still not convinced it will be enough to keep Ipswich up. But I do give that style a better chance than our style.
