Championship season 2019-20

[arbitro]

Just now, Exiled_Rover said:

Aye, you must be. 

Obviously.

[Ewood Ace]

Just now, arbitro said:

I just be watching a different game. Reed and Cairney have dominated the midfield and kept Fulham going forward at every possible opportunity.

Fulham the better side, controlling the midfield but they are really lacking up top without Mitrovic.

[Hoochie Bloochie Mama]

On 03/08/2020 at 11:52, Dreams of 1995 said:

Playing Harrison Reed at right wing instead of centre midfield was one of the worst howlers I've seen TM make. I never got it.

He did it with Whittingham too. That was an abomination.

[Tugay-is-God]

Nice save by Raya in the first half as well

[arbitro]

Just now, Ewood Ace said:

Fulham the better side, controlling the midfield but they are really lacking up top without Mitrovic.

I heard the commentators saying Mitrovic was warming up by himself pre match which indicates we'll only see him if absolutely necessary. I think with his movement inside the penalty area Fulham would have been ahead.

[Exiled_Rover]

13 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

Fulham the better side, controlling the midfield but they are really lacking up top without Mitrovic.

Brentford more likely to score. 

[Ewood Ace]

Just now, Exiled_Rover said:

Brentford more likely to score. 

To be honest I don't think either side look like scoring.

[mustard]

Every time I watch Cairney playing in CM (and usually bossing it), I get miffed off at Bowyer's persistence in playing him wide right in favour of Lowe/Evans/Williamson.  I did a stat analysis at the time of games where Cairney played at CM compared to the other different pairings and found we had more goals scored, less conceded and more points gained when Cairney was in his rightful position.

Funnily enough, Cairney also averaged more tackles and interceptions per game, despite the players ahead of him being supposedly more defensively capable.  (He even averaged better tackle/interception stats from wide right than plodders like Lowe and Williamson did in CM).

Has to be Bowyer's greatest failing from his time here.  I truly believe we'd have got promoted with the Rhodes and Rudy strikeforce if it wasn't for Bowyer's stubbornness in sticking with two negative, defensive midfielders.

[skous18]

Cairney should feel very lucky to still be on the pitch after that tackle. 
Brentford kinda unlucky not to get a penalty just a second before Cairney’stackle too

[mustard]

3 minutes ago, skous18 said:

Cairney should feel very lucky to still be on the pitch after that tackle. 
Brentford kinda unlucky not to get a penalty just a second before Cairney’stackle too

 

Agreed, he went into the tackle with the wrong foot and was miles away from the ball.  Surely a deliberate attempt at the man.

[LDRover]

Fulham bossing this and , for me, Reed being the main reason for that. He's covered every blade of grass, giving Brentford no time when they're in possession and willing to take the ball in tight areas and setting their attacks up.

This Da Silva for Brentford looks poor to me, slows everything down and takes too many touches.

[davulsukur]

Could of sworn Mitrovic was about to come on and then Knockeart came on instead.

[Exiled_Rover]

1 minute ago, LDRover said:

Fulham bossing this and , for me, Reed being the main reason for that. He's covered every blade of grass, giving Brentford no time when they're in possession and willing to take the ball in tight areas and setting their attacks up.

This Da Silva for Brentford looks poor to me, slows everything down and takes too many touches.

Bloody hell, what game are people watching?

Brentford just had 5 minutes of unbroken possession where Fulham couldn't get near them. 

[Exiled_Rover]

Just now, davulsukur said:

Could of sworn Mitrovic was about to come on and then Knockeart came on instead.

They were both due to come on - suspect Mitrovic felt his hamstring again. 

[Exiled_Rover]

5 minutes ago, mustard said:

 

Agreed, he went into the tackle with the wrong foot and was miles away from the ball.  Surely a deliberate attempt at the man.

Both Reed and Cairney lucky to still be on the field imo. Ref has been very lenient. 

[LDRover]

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Bloody hell, what game are people watching?

Brentford just had 5 minutes of unbroken possession where Fulham couldn't get near them. 

To be fair, Fulham have massively dropped off in the last 15 mins. They look shattered and without Onomah breaking forward they've no outlet.

[Angry_Pirate]

I would like the last 90 minutes of my life back... what an abysmally dull game of football.

[chaddyrovers]

Bored out of my tree watching this. 

 

[davulsukur]

Just now, Angry_Pirate said:

I would like the last 90 minutes of my life back... what an abysmally dull game of football.

Its not been great at all really.

[Exiled_Rover]

Just now, davulsukur said:

Its not been great at all really.

Two over-hyped average teams from a cloggers league bottling it. 

[Exiled_Rover]

This Hector bloke is an utter donkey. 

[RTM08]

As non-eventful as this has been (from what I've seen so far) it is depressing to see the likes of Raya, Reed and Cairney playing in such a fixture. We waste so much talent at Ewood.

Even though he has a mare in him (as shown there) Raya is lightyears ahead of Walton in pretty much every department and it still annoys me that we flogged one of our own instead of working with him just to replace him with a 4th rate loanee.

[Tom]

Oh David he’s just had a shocker of a minute two stinking mistakes and Fulham are ahead 

[Exiled_Rover]

Imagine getting beaten from 40 yards to lose the £160m game. 

Calamity Raya strikes again. 

[Tugay-is-God]

Raya caught out from a couple of miles out there