Bristol City player ratings: Semenyo the brightest in a poor showing as O'Dowda struggles The player ratings as The Robins have an afternoon to forget in Lancashire You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Max O'Leary - 5 Made a smart save in the early stages but had little chance with Blackpool's three strikes. Didn't offer much of a presence to deal with Blackpool's set-pieces. Was let down by his defenders today. Tomas Kalas - 4 Certainly not his best day at the office and found himself exposed on the right side. Klose had to cover for him on numerous occasions but wasn't given much help from the wing-backs. An afternoon to forget for the Czech. Timm Klose - 5 Showed his experience by making a number of crucial interceptions in the first half before Blackpool breached City's defence. Reads the game superbly at times but his team-mates didn't help him out at all. Looked increasingly frustrated as the game went on. Cam Pring - 4 Struggled up against the physical presence of Gary Madine in the first half. Bowler also gave him a torrid time and he failed to deal with the attacker for Blackpool's third. He showed the forward on his left foot and slotted it simply into the corner. Exposed in the second half with Dasilva pushing high up the field. Jay Dasilva - 5 Was given a hard time of it by Hamilton on the right side. Made a number of decent passes going forward but defensively a little suspect. Moved to the left in the second half and played high up the field, leaving plenty of space behind him. Assisted Wells in the final moments of the game. Callum O'Dowda - 3 Was arguably at fault for the opening goal when he dwelled on the ball for too long instead of hacking it clear. Blackpool recycled the ball, delivered the cross and City were 1-0 behind. Was subbed off at half-time which probably summed up his performance. Alex Scott - 5 A very quiet first half and appeared to struggle the most in the conditions. Had a glorious chance to pull one back in the second half but scuffed his strike. He should have buried it. Han-Noah Massengo - 6 A bit of an off day for Massengo judging by the high standards he has set in the previous few weeks. Showed his potential and class in glimpses and was certainly one of City's better players - although that's not saying much. Full of endeavour both defensively and going forward. Andi Weimann - 3 Appeared to be a yard or two off the pace throughout the game. Played behind the strikers in the first half but switched over to the right in the second half. Failed to make an impact and was eventually subbed off for Wells in the second half. He could have no complaints. Antoine Semenyo - 6 Had City's best chance in the first half but his strike was well saved by the Blackpool stopper. A number of decent opportunities and was certainly the most lively out of the City frontmen. Was unlucky to hit the side netting in the second half and will feel he should have been on the scoresheet. Chris Martin - 3 Pretty anonymous throughout the game, was barely given space to manoeuver by the Blackpool defence and was involved in a real physical battle in which he came off second best. He arrived into the game in-form but endured an off day like the majority of his team-mates. Subs Joe Williams (on 45) - 5 Didn't have much of an impact in the second half as Blackpool put the game moments after he came on. City did look more assured in midfield following his introduction. Nahki Wells (on 72) - 6 Game was dead and buried on his introduction and barely had a kick until his goal. It was laid on a plate to him and he couldn't miss. Subs not used: Wiles-Richards, Bell, Vyner, Conway, Benarous https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-massengo-odowda-ratings-6609704
Harsh heading but true, no beating about the bush it was shameful, I'm sorry if it continues we are in for a struggle, youngsters and some players out of their depth,transfer window shut, ijuries to key players, manager does not like loan players, CEO let us sign one freebie only, we are a busted flush moneywise because of past regime circumstances, where do we go from here? I think I'll find a Saturday night darkened room.
Here we go, all the noise after a loss is about no money due to previous regime blah blah blah, yet a week ago it as all rosey and NP was forging his own way. The truth is, we are just as win, lose as we were under said previous regime, the only difference is, we were doing it 8-10 places higher in the league back the !
1) Youngsters out of their depth 2) Some players also out of their depth 3) Transfer window shut. 4) Injuries to key players. 5) Manager does not like loan players. 6) CEO let us sign one freebie only. Your highlighted point ~ 7) We are a busted flush moneywise because of past regime circumstances. 7 factors mentioned in sentence, you only selected one to highlight, what about the other six, I'm not blowing smoke up LJ's or Niges ass, we have got a struggle coming and my question was ~ Where do we go from here? I expressed a criticism.
Last 3 seasons starts: 2019/20 played 30 games 50 pts team at top 56 points GF 44 GA 40 2020/21 played 30 games 39 pts team at top 61 points GF 29 GA 41 2021/22 played 30 games 34 pts team at top [28 games] 58 points GF 39 GA 54
It wasn't the game I saw has to be said, (typical Bristol post report) we were doing well until we conceded two quick fire goals. IMO it was a poor clearance by Klose that led to the first goal, Kalas lost his man for the 2nd..This totally knocked us and was always going to be a struggle from then on.. How can Wells get scored a 6 with one touch of the ball that was a tap in when the game was gone anyway? It's a young side, naff conditions....they will learn.
I have watched many games on the boob tube and there have been quite a few times where we have looked good, but only for portions of the 90 minutes. We can change our shape and fortunes in the blink of an eye, as can be clearly seen by our late capitulations, and the old adage of a 2 goal lead being the worst must have been forged at Ashton Gate. There are no simple fixes for what ails us because we have been suffering from the same ailment, without ever being capable of finding a cure, for way too long and perhaps the quick patch-ups we have worked with under so many regimes are now coming back to haunt us big time.
It was always going to be a tough season. There were always going to be tough games. A sense of perspective is needed. If anyone thought this season was going to be anything other than survival they were kidding themselves. We’ve been much better of late, there has been much improvement. I’m excited about our team because it has so many youngsters in it that if we stick with and encourage have really bright filters. The negative of having so many youngsters in the team is they are going to have bad days and yesterday was one of those days. individual errors are causing us dear BBC & we done deal well with crosses, but out general play is much better, we do need to work on those areas. We seem, on the whole , with the introduction of Semenyo as a striker, to have solved our attacking weakness, we need to now make ourselves much more secure defensively,
Things are improving but I'm only stating known facts and what the manager points out in the article below, I am beginning to believe we think we are better than what we are, it's an illusion. Bristol City manager Nigel Pearson hits out at certain individuals after humbling defeat Pearson was far from happy with his sides performance and the "avoidable" goals conceded https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-nigel-pearson-defeat-6610056
so he should be played the best football of the season last Saturday at Preston and some of the worst this week at Blackpool. We got what we deserved nothing. Onwards to Wednesday and Reading who are another struggling team-a six pointer this game.
The finger seems to be pointing at ODowda, which is a bit harsh imo.. the defence has a whole crumbled including Klose.. his poor clearance set up the first and Kalas was slow to pick up the 2nd.. from that moment on it was poor performances all round.
this is one of the most dangerous teams we play they have lost 5 on the bounce.. our record against teams on a poor run are dismal. 11pts from 30 v 5 points from 30 [lost 5 on bounce ]
This one is a banana skin for me but if we fail to get 3 points against a poor squad like Reading then we are in deep muck. I'm tired of this pathetic response from my team and changing managers and players just never works for us but rather just brings up more questions as to why we are like this year after year? I am not expecting us to win the Champions League any time soon but at least find a bunch of players up to the task that will actually earn their salaries and help us build what we all want and that is a team that competes in every match and can leave the field of play knowing that they did their individual best for the team. I struggle to find within my memory bank the last time I saw Bristol City put in a full 90 minutes in the league that made me think that finally we had found the key to success. Needless to say the search continues......
A dead cat bounce... ' A dead cat bounce is a temporary, short-lived recovery of asset prices from a prolonged decline or a bear market that is followed by the continuation of the downtrend. ... The name "dead cat bounce" is based on the notion that even a dead cat will bounce if it falls far enough and fast enough.'
