**Official lappinitup match thread Cardiff v Norwich**

[canarydan23 4,060]

Lino is on the Cardiff payroll. Either that or he's ****ing braindead.

[GodlyOtsemobor 2,327]

Binners 1-0 down to Bolton 

[Paint Me Yellow 200]

Meanwhile in a small town in Suffolk:

Ipswich 0-1 Bolton

Edited July 30, 2022 by Paint Me Yellow

[canarydan23 4,060]

Krul's put two or three straight out for throw ins this half.

[kirku 1,334]

Omo been more progressive with the ball than Kenny and Lungi combined

[kirku 1,334]

Good move, but poor cross from Gian

[C.I.D 302]

1 minute ago, GodlyOtsemobor said:

Binners 1-0 down to Bolton 

Oh no,say it ain't so😢.............

[Monty13 2,235]

Just now, kirku said:

Good move, but poor cross from Gian

Yep, decent break but final ball was poor

[Capt. Pants 4,250]

Todd gone a bit quiet.

[Nuff Said 5,146]

1 minute ago, kirku said:

Omo been more progressive with the ball than Kenny and Lungi combined

Kenny played a long pass straight to Teemu’s feet when he was on the edge of the box, but don’t let that that stop you slagging him.

[canarydan23 4,060]

Not much evidence that Rashica is going to tear up this league so far. We'd have been better starting Onel.

[Capt. Pants 4,250]

Collins looks good.

[Dean Coneys boots 1,400]

They are niggling us and we are letting them get under our skin. We need to stamp authority on this - but ref also needs to sort it out. Far too many soft fouls the second we get into a dangerous position 

[TheGunnShow 5,940]

Need to move the ball a bit quicker. The way to beat a team fouling for position is to move it at pace.

[Capt. Pants 4,250]

2 minutes ago, canarydan23 said:

Not much evidence that Rashica is going to tear up this league so far. We'd have been better starting Onel.

Not sure Sargent doing much either.

[Dean Coneys boots 1,400]

Sorenson has done well. 

[Jim Smith 2,322]

I think we look very comfortable and have complete control of this game (for an away side) but our attacking play is not working at all and is lacking fluency so I’m not sure we will make good our superiority. Because if this we are susceptible to a sucker punch from a set piece or counter attack. 

[Dean Coneys boots 1,400]

Forgot how bad the refs can be in this division. Awful decision not to give us a free kick there on edge of the box 

[TheGunnShow 5,940]

Gonna say it (and risk a good laugh in it being hilariously wrong). I reckon Hugill might come of the bench to score off one of these set-pieces when we finally get one to stick.

[Disco Dales Jockstrap 1,893]

Lack of creativity is obvious.

Crumbs for Pukki.

Sargent just fell over.

Look comfortable defensively.

First half of the first game though.

OTBC

[canarydan23 4,060]

3 minutes ago, Capt. Pants said:

Not sure Sargent doing much either.

Yeah, but I'm not sure we were expecting him to, were we?!

This ref is an utter joke. Clearly never played football in his life. They had a former player reffing the Germany v France semi final in the women's Euros and she was excellent. When are we going to start promoting people who actually know the game to referee, rather than the picked-last-in-PE losers we give whistles to currently?

No one who has played above Salhouse Rovers level would have played advantage there.

[kirku 1,334]

7 minutes ago, Nuff Said said:

Kenny played a long pass straight to Teemu’s feet when he was on the edge of the box, but don’t let that that stop you slagging him.

It's a match thread, my posts will be 90% reactive nonsense and 10% jokes

[7HAR1980 102]

Officiating is atrocious! 

[chicken 2,627]

3 minutes ago, Jim Smith said:

I think we look very comfortable and have complete control of this game (for an away side) but our attacking play is not working at all and is lacking fluency so I’m not sure we will make good our superiority. Because if this we are susceptible to a sucker punch from a set piece or counter attack. 

I'm going to disagree slightly.

I don't think it's our attacking play "not working", it's Cardiff deploying some Millwall-esque tactics aided by the laxity of the ref, and preventing us from being able to form flowing or quick attacks. That leaves us with often having to attack them when they have reset and have ten players behind the ball. 

Nothing fancy about Cardiff at all, but we have to hold our nerve and be patient and find that break through.

We'll get this a fair bit this season.

Edited July 30, 2022 by chicken

[Nuff Said 5,146]

Just now, kirku said:

It's a match thread, my posts will be 90% reactive nonsense and 10% jokes

TBF, that will be 10% more entertaining than most. 👍

[Capt. Pants 4,250]

Solid but toothless.

[kirku 1,334]

Just now, Nuff Said said:

TBF, that will be 10% more entertaining than most. 👍

Harsh, but fair

[Petriix 2,842]

Obviously there's a long way to go but initial observations:

• Rashica and Sargent look just as good in the Championship as they did in the Premier League. 
• Sorensen looks decent at CDM. 
• The officiating at this level is awful.
• We're desperate for some quality from set pieces. 

 

[Virtual reality 712]

We look comfortable but are lacking in quality to create chances. 

[TheGunnShow 5,940]

1 minute ago, chicken said:

I'm going to disagree slightly.

I don't think it's our attacking play "not working", it's Carfiff deploying some Millwall-esque tactics aided by the laxity of the ref, and preventing us from being able to form flowing or quick attacks. That leaves us with often having to attack them when they have reset and have ten players behind the ball. 

Nothing fancy about Cardiff at all, but we have to hold our nerve and be patient and find that break through.

We'll get this a fair bit this season.

Which is why set-pieces are so important. There's your instant leveller for that sort of thing. Problem is, we've not many who are consistently dangerous in attack from them. You'd think Hanley would get more goals than he does.