Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 6, 2023 Administrator Share Posted December 6, 2023 all kick-offs 15.00 (GMT) unless stated Friday 8th December, 2023 Coventry vs Birmingham, 20.00 Saturday 9th December, 2023 Blackburn vs Leeds, 12.30 Sunderland vs West Brom, 12.30 Cardiff vs Millwall Huddersfield vs Bristol City Leicester vs Plymouth Middlesbrough vs Ipswich Norwich vs Preston QPR vs Hull Rotherham vs Swansea Stoke vs Sheff Weds Watford vs Southampton Saturday 9th December, 2023 Blackpool vs Carlisle Bristol Rovers vs Cheltenham Burton vs Stevenage Charlton vs Cambridge Exeter vs Port Vale Leyton Orient vs Derby Northampton vs Fleetwood Peterborough vs Oxford Reading vs Barnsley Wigan vs Lincoln Wycombe vs Shrewsbury Monday 11th December, 2023 Portsmouth vs Bolton Saturday 9th December, 2023 Accrington Stanley vs Doncaster AFC Wimbledon vs Swindon Barrow vs Gillingham Bradford vs Salford Colchester vs Crawley Forest Green vs Wrexham Grimsby vs Crewe Mansfield vs MK Dons Morecambe vs Stockport Notts County vs Walsall Sutton vs Harrogate Tranmere vs Newport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Millwall won't be easy, but it's one we should be looking to win, especially after two losses on the bounce against, admittedly, better teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 8, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 8, 2023 Not sure how tomorrow goes. Perhaps scrape through with a narrow win again. Plymouth have a good record of scoring from counter-attacks. I think I heard Maresca say they are only second best to Leeds in that respect. We do tend to end up breaking teams down who sit back and soak up pressure, but we'll have to be much more clinical than we've shown in recent games. Opportunities probably won't be too regular but we can't be so wasteful and then get sucker-punched on the counter. We have to score first otherwise it's just easier for teams to sit back. Pereira is out and he's almost like a partner in crime for Winks, so presumably Choudhury steps in. The striker conundrum continues as well. Hard to tell who is the best option. Iheanacho is almost playing himself out of favour, Vardy seems better as a impact sub against tiring defences, Cannon is totally untried but I think he needs to be given a chance at some point, Daka doesn't seem to be getting a look in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 Coventry vs. Birmingham about to start. Remember, Birmingham have 'no fear'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 The 'no fear' approach is working well for Birmingham so far, as they're currently losing 1-0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 9, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 9, 2023 Just seen the disallowed Sunderland goal. Terrible decision for the offside. Quite very clearly onside that you'd expect a linesman to be getting right at any level. Good decision to not allow the penalty though shortly after. Ballard should have been off. High off the ground, from behind and out of control in the scissor motion too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 9, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 9, 2023 19 hours ago, Stan said: The striker conundrum continues as well. Hard to tell who is the best option. Iheanacho is almost playing himself out of favour, Vardy seems better as a impact sub against tiring defences, Cannon is totally untried but I think he needs to be given a chance at some point, Daka doesn't seem to be getting a look in. And with that being said, Daka starts and neither Iheanacho or Vardy are in the squad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 9, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 9, 2023 Mavididi wins a penalty and scores it! 1-0 Leicester. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 9, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 9, 2023 Get in! Daka scores on his first start this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 9, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 9, 2023 4-0! 3 goals in 10 second half minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 9, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 9, 2023 2-0 to Ipswich. Come on Boro, do something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 9, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 9, 2023 Cardiff lead! On the brink of play-offs now if it remains 1-0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 9, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 9, 2023 96th minute equaliser for Watford to deny a Saints win. Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,394 Posted December 9, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted December 9, 2023 Easiest win we've had all season. Mavididi sounded great, and deserved his two goals. Also sounded like the game should have been wrapped up before half-time. Good to see us rotate and still get a convincing win. Pereira, Vardy, Iheanacho and McAteer all out and they weren't missed. Choudhury had a quality game by all accounts. Same again vs Millwall please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas 3,827 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 (edited) Very good win for us yesterday given it was a bit of an average performance. Two moments of quality were enough. Just felt a bit sloppy at times but credit to Blackburn who actually played ok to be fair. They do miss some serious cutting edge though, no real presence up front. Summerville is on absolute fire. Edited December 10, 2023 by Lucas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 21 hours ago, Stan said: Easiest win we've had all season. Mavididi sounded great, and deserved his two goals. Also sounded like the game should have been wrapped up before half-time. Good to see us rotate and still get a convincing win. Pereira, Vardy, Iheanacho and McAteer all out and they weren't missed. Choudhury had a quality game by all accounts. Same again vs Millwall please. Millwall were shite yesterday, though neither of us were really great. If they play like they did, you'll piss them, especially with Winks in midfield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,918 Posted December 12, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted December 12, 2023 Long overdue that we've given someone a good beating and I've been saying to people a while I thought Plymouth of all teams were probably a good contender to be on the end of that, as they genuinely really do only know one way and that's to attack. They actually gave us a good game for a lot of the first half and they were probably a bit unfortunate to go in behind at half time, but we just hammered them after the restart and it became a procession. My one criticism of Maresca has been that I think he overcomplicates and keeps things a bit too tight against sides we're a lot better than. Can't accuse him of that at the weekend. We were looking for other ways. Not totally stubborn. Good from him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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