They should have scored a couple in the first 10 minutes, but since then City have dominated and should be comfortably ahead. Their keeper has made a couple of good saves but got lucky a few other times. You could say it's been poor finishing off the back of some good football build up by City and that would be a fair assessment.
Now getting hammered. 2nd and 3rd on the break. Chambers missed a sitter at 1.0 and we end up chasing the game and getting exposed to fast moves out of defence by Blackpool. We could and should have done so much better.
That game was a joke. City can only take comfort from the other results today - some very strange upsets for the top half dozen clubs. EDIT..........and the fact the jacks lost 4-1 at home.
Now I know what the Orient manager felt like. 66% possession, 28 shots,11 on target. We should have been 2 to the good at half time at least. Very questionable defending by Lawlor in particular who is very good at driving forward but got caught out too often today. Chambers scores that header it’s a different game. We were always going to be susceptible at the back when chasing the game so it’s a false score. We’ll play worse and win. Typically their keeper makes an error when it doesn’t matter. What I will say is offensively up to the point of crossing and shooting we were good after a slow start. That was so much better than at Bolton but it just wasn’t our day. On another day like that we’ll score 4 or 5. Shooting practice all next week. Clue: don’t aim at the keeper
Too many games going this way now. Plenty of opportunities, can't find the back of the net. BBM and co need to find a solution.
Have to wait until January as these players in whatever selection the tinkerman puts out are too inconsistent, too wasteful, too lightweight, too defensively frail and too ponderous. City need a strong leader in CM
I certainly wasn't dancing on the way out of the stadium, meanwhile the Blackpool Tango was going on all around us
I wouldn’t be surprised if talk of the need for a DOF comes back into vogue. When all’s said and done BBM is still an inexperienced manager.
In terms of table position, there's no question that other results went our way yesterday. With Stevenage losing on Thursday, that meant 7 of the top 8 all lost, little harm was done to the standings, but to take any comfort from that would be like brushing the dirt under the carpet. I wouldn't go as far as to say BBM's halo has slipped, it's more a case of him recognising and reacting to obvious issues that are clear to us "unqualified" commentators from the stands. You can't avoid the occasional bad luck, but recent results have in the main been self inflicted. Despite talking a lot of sense in his interviews, BBM now needs to translate the rhetoric into performances on the pitch against competitive opposition sides with a plan of their own, not just in quoting training intensity against your own team mates.
Defensive frailties while chasing the game cost us goals. The positive is we had 28 shots on goal with 10 saved. So the previous criticisms of not working the opposite keeper couldn't be levied. However BBM now needs to work on getting our players (yes Chambers I'm looking at you) to put the ball in the onion bag while keeping it tighter at the back.
