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 Mapletree  Croydon 26 Dec 18 6.12pm |
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Well, a frustrating afternoon Cardiff looked poor to start with but it was a classic Warnock approach, absorb the pressure and pray for a goal against the run of play. The Cardiff centre backs were excellent, especially Bamba. Wilf kicked around a lot, taking it in turns I think. Decent crowd, Cardiff did their part too. Much hilarity at half time as the announcer said the kids doing the penalties were from Leicester. The Cardiff fans were pretty jovial. HF trying hard again but not enough of them to really build the atmosphere. Wickham coming on caused quite a stir but in truth he was owned by the centre backs. Also seems incapable of jumping, never looked like getting above Cardiff's tall men. Not such a target man as Benteke. It could all have been so different if Wickham's first touch had been a foot to the right.
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| Rachid Rachid Rachid 26 Dec 18 8.05pm |
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Thought we played well. Fantastic ball retention and passing but the most frustrating game of the season. Kouyate our best player today IMO.
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| ripleyeagle Ripley Surrey 26 Dec 18 8.23pm |
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Originally posted by Rachid Rachid Rachid
Thought we played well. Fantastic ball retention and passing but the most frustrating game of the season. Kouyate our best player today IMO. Good post I agree with your comments.
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| Aray South London 26 Dec 18 10.19pm |
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So we revert to type: not taking a shot or badly taken shots. Sigh... I have been a fan of Meyer but Roy was right to sub him - was amazed how he somehow shot wide after refusing the easy pass back to our oncoming players. I cant say I was that surprised though... But when Roy brought on Conner so early I was shocked. Shame he didn't do much, not that surprising really. Not sure how to sum that performance up apart from the obvious - we dropped 2 points for sure.
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| Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 27 Dec 18 12.04am |
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Originally posted by Rachid Rachid Rachid
Thought we played well. Fantastic ball retention and passing but the most frustrating game of the season. Kouyate our best player today IMO. The first player from the Philippines to play in the PL. The Cardiff goalkeeping coaches have been teaching him not to move his feet too much in certain circumstances.He moved around too much so he couldn't spring as much as he needed to so they have taught him to be more still at times.Warnock signed him from Walsall on a Free. Edited by Willo (27 Dec 2018 2.50pm)
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chateauferret  27 Dec 18 12.15am |
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Originally posted by Willo
The first player from the Philippines to play in the PL. The Cardiff goalkeeping coaches have been teaching him not to move his feet too much in certain circimstances.He moved around too much so he couldn't spring as much as he needed to so they have taught him to be more still at times.Warnock signed him from Walsall on a Free. And whenever we did actually hit a ball on target we usually hit it straight at him, which pr.obably helped.
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Slimey Toad  Karsiyaka, North Cyprus 27 Dec 18 5.36am |
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Why were the Cardiff fans booing Andros? I can't think of any connection with one of their rivals. It surely can't be because of the praise heaped on him by that wonder strike a few days ago.
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| bifffabazz Highworth, Wiltshire 27 Dec 18 10.08am |
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Such a frustrating afternoon. I spent most of it waiting for them to take goalkicks and throw-ins. A serious team of cloggers and a bunch of fans who have a serious issue with the English. I have no idea why they feel the need to air their slagging nationalism at a club match. Do they seriously go to all 19 away games with the same beef?! Odd. Amazingly, we still haven't scored a goal from open play, INSIDE THE BOX at home this season. Edited by bifffabazz (27 Dec 2018 10.09am)
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| Dixie Eagle Chatham 27 Dec 18 10.11am |
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They were booing Wilf. Not enough shots on target today and I still think our build up play was too slow again. We should have gone for the kill more towards the end.
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| JRW2 Dulwich 27 Dec 18 10.40am |
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Originally posted by Willo
The first player from the Philippines to play in the PL. According to Wikipedia, his father was English and he was born in Enfield. I'm not sure that having a Philippine mother counts as being "from the Philippines".
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| Bexley Eagle Bexley Kent 27 Dec 18 10.41am |
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We had enough of the ball and chances to have won the game twice over. We had the luck against City and no luck yesterday (Townsend and Luka hitting the woodwork when a couple of inches the other way and they were in the back of the net)summed it up for me.
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| Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 27 Dec 18 10.54am |
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Originally posted by JRW2
According to Wikipedia, his father was English and he was born in Enfield. I'm not sure that having a Philippine mother counts as being "from the Philippines". I read the detail about the first player from the Philippines to play in the PL but I cannot recall the source of this information.
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