MY VIEW ” RUSSELL SLADES LAST MATCH / HMM? “

MY VIEW ” RUSSELL SLADES LAST MATCH / HMM? ”

My View/Opinion

By Annis Abraham

http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=172421

SO RUSSELL SLADES LAST MATCH,AM I DISAPPOINTED IT WAS HIS LAST MATCH, NO,WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD.

I was very dissapointed that Slade never gave three or four of our Youth Players a start and all season he has not given them a chance,today was the day without a doubt.

City dropped a place to 8th and finish the season 8th in the Championship.

The first half was a decent Championship game,but the second-half changed to like a pre-season friendly.

The atmosphere from the Cardiff sections was so quite,it was subdued.

Cardiff today came out to a virtually empty stadium, other than the 2,000 travelling Birmingham fans who had travelled to support their team with nothing to play for,but certainly main themselves heard.

CARDIFF CITY 1 BIRMINGHAM CITY 1

Crowd Looked empty
Away Support 2,100

City : Marshall, Peltier, Connolly, Turner, Malone, O’Keefe, Whittingham, Noone, Lawrence, Immers and Pilkington.

Subs : Moore, John, Manga, Harris, Ameobi, Zohore, Saadi.

With City’s season now over and the same with Birmingham City, were we today going to see some youngsters played and players giving their all to secure new contracts etc?

From the first minute City came out and attacked and for 10mins totally dominated the game,then Brum had a breakaway and bang 0-1 Brum.
City got what they deserved in the 26th minute cross from Malone and Pilkington stabbed it home 1-1.
Tom Lawrence for me had played the best so far.
Half-time CCFC 1 BCFC 1
Both teams for the first 15 minutes even stevens.

A free kick from Cotterill,drilled it in to the top corner, Marshall well beaten, Craig Noone run back and brilliant diving header on the line saved City.
66th mins Lex Immers was replaced by Zohore.

74th min Kadeem Harris replaced Tom Lawrence.
Zohore had a decent shot but was saved by the Birmingham goalie.
81 mins Turner replaced by Manga.
For me even stevens and 1-1 looked a fair result.

85min Manga messes up and Birmingham hit the post,Brum fans thought they hit the post.

Man of the match Craig Noone.

Full-time CCFC 1 BCFC 1
THATS IT FOR THIS SEASON/HAVE A GREAT SUMMER & OUR FORUM WILL KEEP YOU ALL UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS & TRANSFERS.