From the match tweet... 90 - City break, but Charlton are back in numbers like lightning. So fast to track back. On the evidence of this game, that's literally all they do in training. Turn! Run back!
v unjust, but if you don't create good chances, really doesn't matter if you have 60% or more of the possession.
Ultimate smash and grab from Charlton, but other than improving our final ball and finishing what else can we do? We created more than enough to win the game and let's not forget we had a perfectly good goal chalked off and were denied a stonewall penalty. We lost this game as much to poor refereeing as not being clinical enough.
So - 3 consecutive home games where the away team have taken points - not to mention finding a way to stop city break them down for the majority of the game. A bit of a worry if every team that visits decides to do the same....
Sooner Hooper is back in the side and fit and firing again the better. Would have buried atleast 2 of Grabbans chances. Ref was a numpty which didn't help either. As the game went on I just had a feeling we would lose and so it happened.
Any team can stick 10 men behind the ball, we know that more than any. Its luck and fortune Charlton won, more than any kind of skill or ingenuity.
Just left the game. That one was a carbon copy of when we went away to, I think it was Barnsley, and McVeigh nicked a 0-1 on the break in the last minute. They offered absolutely nothing today. But that's how teams are going to play against us at home. They know they can't dominate the game so they play on the counter and get men behind the ball. Nothing wrong with that, by we need to wise up quick.
Great result for Charlton, but never a great performance. Total travesty! We're still top though. There had to be a fluke result like this at some stage of the season. Charlton had 3 shots, 1 on target and it went in. City had 15 shots against a packed defence, 4 on target.
Sorry but terrible again is more than a little harsh. I was possibly the first to start criticising Grabban's lack of clinical finishing on these whole forums but he has never been terrible. At the end of the day if you have a player scoring every other game that is an asset to your team no matter how you look at it. Of course there will be a knee jerk reaction against our forwards after we create so many chances and fail to find the net but it seems a bit odd to lay all the blame on Grabban.
Pretty much. We were pretty predictable in our attacking play today. I think we should switch back to the 4-5-1/4-3-3 formation we were playing earlier in the season with a few tweaks. I'd put Jerome up top centrally with Redmond and Grabban eitherside and play Hoolahan centrally.
Grabban was ****, as he's been in most games, most of the time. If he's not scoring then he has no reason to be in the team. If he's scoring for fun then he has to remain in the team, but his overall play is crap.
So, 100 points and 100 goals still on? I don't understand how some people say this is more satisfying than being in the Premiership. It's never easy in this league as City have found out for several seasons.
