MY VIEW: “ WE BATTLED BUT “

MY View/Opinion

WE WILL HAVE TO DEPEND ON OUR HOME RESULTS

CARDIFF CITY BATTLED BUT NEVER HAD THE PREMIERSHIP QUALITY THAT WAS NEEDED.

Over all Bournemouth deserved their victory and for me we will need more than just battling displays to stay up in the Premier League, we need that extra quality.

Can we beat Newcastle at home, Yes we can,they are not that great and behind the scenes they are in disaray

Cardiff City started this season as favourites to go straight back down, but Warnock is out to prove the bookies & doubters they are wrong.





A new season to look forward to and now City playing up there with the very best football can offer, fans United, back in Blue, a great manager in Neil Warnock, fans excited, here we go Bournemouth Away first


BOURNEMOUTH 2 CARDIFF CITY 0
Crowd
Away Support
H/T 1-0

Neil Etheridge Lee Peltier Sean Morrison Bruno Manga Joe Bennett Sol Bamba Joe Ralls
Callum Paterson Nathaniel Mendez-Laing Junior Hoilett Bobby Reid

Subs Alex Smithies Jazz Richards Greg Cunningham
Victor Camarasa Josh Murphy Gary Madine Danny Ward


City opened up brightly but Bournemouth looked more threatening and in the 24th min City were opened up and Fraser slotted home 1-0 Bournemouth


In the 33rd min a dubious penalty which thankfully Etheridge saved to keep it 1-0

Bournemouth over all were the better off team in the first-half and deserved their first-half lead .




H/T 1-0

City started to put pressure on Bournemouth but to no avail .


So in the 63rd min Double sub

Callum Paterson and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing came on for Danny Ward and Josh Murphy.

91 mins Bournemouth scored to make 2-0


City battled but were not good enough in front of goal and lost 2-0 against a Premiership team.


City will have a long hard season ahead of them, but just need that Premiership quality .





F/T 2-0



My man of the match Neil Etheridge






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crap midfield, hopefully Arter, Camarasa will come in and seal it up a bit

Not good enough in front of goal we had chances to score at least 1.

Encouraging. Switch back to a back 4 and have a bit of a midfield, Arter will help here, poor Ralls cant do it all!

Reid not a lone striker. Him and zohore could shine however.

Disappointing we lost. Shite pen decision, excellent save. 2 cut back goals which I feel Bamba would've read. On another day we'd have got at least one!

We move on...

Battling display but upfront looked bit weak strength wise so why did we put mardine on who is combative only in the 90th minute?

We played well, didnt think we had strongest team out, reid is good but too weak, we need someone like zohore who is a menace and doesnt get pushed off the ball

Missed zohore s hold up play, bamba experiment needs too stop ,where was gunnerson ? He woukd if down better than bamba ,arter and the new spaish lad will make a difference ,murphy should be starting

Battling display but upfront looked bit weak strength wise so why did we put mardine on who is combative only in the 90th minute?

madine/ward - makes no difference, you may as well put bamba and Morrison up front they'd be more effective!

Arter, Victor and Jazz to come in.
Manga,Pelts and Patterson on the bench.
Reid can't play as a 9.
Better as a 10,but I think we need 3 in midfield. So we can't play with 10 then .
So NW got a week to shuffle that pack

Pretty much what we’ve all said all summer, desperate for a striker, midfield weak and personally I think we need a decent CB as Iv never been a fan of manga.

Missed zohore s hold up play, bamba experiment needs too stop ,where was gunnerson ? He woukd if down better than bamba ,arter and the new spaish lad will make a difference ,murphy should be starting

Injured again I believe and hardly played much preseason. Even id have had him play ahead of Bamba.

Arter, Victor and Jazz to come in.
Manga,Pelts and Patterson on the bench.
Reid can't play as a 9.
Better as a 10,but I think we need 3 in midfield. So we can't play with 10 then .
So NW got a week to shuffle that pack

Agree

He stayed loyal to the lads who took us up and they battled hard without looking like they would get anything out of the game saying that we did have a few chances to equalise...next week I think our midfield will be much stronger with Arter Camarasa and possibly Gunners, Zore will be fit as well and we could possibly line up

Etheridge
Richards, Bamba, Morrison Bennett
Arter Gunners Ralls Camarasa Murphy
Zorore

I felt we might struggle when I saw the line up and we did at times but we still competed and its not all doom and gloom as far as I am concerned...come on City on to next week and we are home.

We showed heart but lacking quality and a bit of miscommunication with Reid at times who looked great on the ball
15 minutes we had the ball in the second half consistently and we just could not create the chances.

Great save in the first half that saved our bacon

I think it's going to be a sticky season

Battling display but upfront looked bit weak strength wise so why did we put mardine on who is combative only in the 90th minute?

madine/ward - makes no difference, you may as well put bamba and Morrison up front they'd be more effective!

Yes your right but that would have given us a different approach we never changed way we played and that was the problem, they were comfortable to say the least with madine morrison or bamba up front would have given them more trouble than starting forwards. But hopefully with our new boys playing next week things will be different

Simple - we need to put our best 11 out. We do not have the strongest 25 man squad so we need to pick our best 11. Zohore was obviously injured but Sol is not going to hold is own in midfield in the Premiership. Guess Gunnarsson & Zohore will both return when fit.

How Murphy never started will never know as he was by far the best player on the park last week and scored a stunner.
Richards has to come in for Peltier, Arter has to start & Murphy for NML. Can see Casamara coming off the bench.

Don't panic MR.Mannering!!! With Arter and Camerasa in the midfield and big Ken back up top we'll be just fine

That wasn't at all bad.

At least we aren't Fulham losing at home to a team no better than Bournemouth.

We showed heart but lacking quality and a bit of miscommunication with Reid at times who looked great on the ball
15 minutes we had the ball in the second half consistently and we just could not create the chances.

Great save in the first half that saved our bacon

I think it's going to be a sticky season

Sticky sir??? Oooooo suits you sir!! Ooooooo sir!!!!

Begovic wasn't really tested all game. Quite alarming that

Positive is that it wasn't our best 11. We get arter, start murphy and maybe victor and we'll be more than decent.

If we came away with a draw you wouldn’t have been surprised. Reid needed some help up front, he’s no target man so NW made a mistake there.
2 players to come in, definitely missed Arter.

Overall not to bad but missed some quality on the ball, and let’s be honest Bournemouth are one of the weaker teams.

Dress up all you like we are no where near good enough for this league.I know we have better midfielders to come in but the failure to buy a tried and trusted centre forward will eventually kill us. I think this was a mistake not to gamble a little bit more money but accept why the club have not. I love Neil Warnock and will support him every step of the way and enjoy this season but we will get relegated. I am not being melodramatic and I fully support the clubs sensible decisions for the long term. We'll scrap a few results here and there however "we battled but" is a nicely written epitaph for this season already.

Pretty much what we’ve all said all summer, desperate for a striker, midfield weak and personally I think we need a decent CB as Iv never been a fan of manga.

Agree 1000% on the striker - unless Zohore and Reid suddenly become Toshack and Keegan (showing my age there!) we will pay for that missing piece of the jigsaw in points and the blood and sweat of our defence and midfield.

Also agree about Manga who was brutalised by several Championship wingers last season - he is not even Championship calibre let alone EPL standard and Jazz should replace Manga asap, (Manga should be no closer to the first team than making the half time tea)!!

Thank goodness that Camarasa and Arter will bring an end to Bamba playing in midfield and allow him to return to his best position alongside Morrisson.

Hopefully Bamba won’t be used as midfielder again, Not sure why Murphy didn’t start came on and played well and Bobby Reid worked his socks off but no support at all, Arter to come in next week along side ralls with Reid playing behide Zohore

Dress up all you like we are no where near good enough for this league.I know we have better midfielders to come in but the failure to buy a tried and trusted centre forward will eventually kill us. I think this was a mistake not to gamble a little bit more money but accept why the club have not. I love Neil Warnock and will support him every step of the way and enjoy this season but we will get relegated. I am not being melodramatic and I fully support the clubs sensible decisions for the long term. We'll scrap a few results here and there however "we battled but" is a nicely written epitaph for this season already.

Agree totally!!!

Dress up all you like we are no where near good enough for this league.I know we have better midfielders to come in but the failure to buy a tried and trusted centre forward will eventually kill us. I think this was a mistake not to gamble a little bit more money but accept why the club have not. I love Neil Warnock and will support him every step of the way and enjoy this season but we will get relegated. I am not being melodramatic and I fully support the clubs sensible decisions for the long term. We'll scrap a few results here and there however "we battled but" is a nicely written epitaph for this season already.

Agree totally!!!

Did'nt see the game so can't really comment. One thing for sure though, we won't be the only team to lose at Bournemouth this season. From what I have read, things don't sound too bad, especially with a few decent players likely to come in for the next game.

Did'nt see the game so can't really comment. One thing for sure though, we won't be the only team to lose at Bournemouth this season. From what I have read, things don't sound too bad, especially with a few decent players likely to come in for the next game.

But Steve where is the cutting edge we desperately need going to come from?

I don't think Zohore - he was hot and cold in the Championship!!

Hopefully Bamba won’t be used as midfielder again, Not sure why Murphy didn’t start came on and played well and Bobby Reid worked his socks off but no support at all, Arter to come in next week along side ralls with Reid playing behide Zohore

Agree

Did'nt see the game so can't really comment. One thing for sure though, we won't be the only team to lose at Bournemouth this season. From what I have read, things don't sound too bad, especially with a few decent players likely to come in for the next game.

But Steve where is the cutting edge we desperately need going to come from?

I don't think Zohore - he was hot and cold in the Championship!!

Early days yet. Maybe the new boys will create a few chances. Agree with you that goal scoring could be a problem but only time will tell. This was always going to be a tough game against a side who only finished last season out of the top ten on goal difference. Lets see where are after 10 games. Going to be tough for sure, but then again we knew that already.