MDT v Baardiff....

Spot on mate.

As you say, the blank spots are obvious and starring us in the face.

Stats only confirm those even firmer.

There's also no need to beat 2/3 players every time or to beat the same player twice and stand still again. It's not about playing exibition stuff or galery play when your down.

Of course having a real striker in the box might perhap be helpfull.

Now, if only those in power could see...

Did you see Archie grey, Ampadu and Struijk after the second goal? All 3 of then looked at Meslier and say something... funny to watch.

Now, Meslier is not without his flaws but I can't see how he can be blamed for any of yesterdays goals.

Guess Pascal was trying to explain to him how he went from being 1 yard away from the eventual goalscorer to losing his man and diving in on a player already being covered.

Again a lack of communication and awareness.

Not been able to find it yet D2

Yes we certainly. And to get a point this late in the game feels good.

But, hopefully we'll now do the things that need to be done and have been starring us in the face for god knows how long.

Biggest + today beside the lovely shirt is young GRAY!

HAT OFF!!!

Grays conors were pretty dangerous.

Sometimes I hate being right. Feel very sorry for him and I'm afraid he'll be out for a long time.

Anybody here, see the dick head who said that now Cooper is injured he does not have to make a decision about excepting Saudi offer.

I almost threw my phone when I read that. I may not agree with coopers level of play but I never discredit his off field club behaviour as it has always been extremely professional.

Byram was more a real fullback.

Good goal and commitment from Cooper

Hjelde was poor in defending and so was Ayling!

The fact Ayling wasn't replaced had probably more to do with Cooper's injury.

For me Ayling has been poor in pre-season. He's always high up the pitch and bombing forward. He's good enough going forward, the defending remains the worry.

If you look at the first goal (after Sinesterra's give away), he's miles away from his man and both he and Pascal go and try to cover the first post. Ayling at fault for being out of position and then followed that up by not even closing down his man.

Second goal, sorry but for starters → that was non-defending from Hjelde.

At the back post there's 2 players for Cardiff and just Ayling trying to deal with them. Again he's not in a good position to intervene.

So a lot goes wrong in terms of defending, saidly it's not only Ayling.

There's little cover from the CB's who in general had to deal with just 1 striker. There's little cover from midfield either.

You've pointed to a lack of communication and when one looks at some of defending you're spot on. Not only that, there is apparently nobody around who senses the danger.

In the second half, on one of the rare counter attacks, Pascal was on the wrong side of the striker. So defensively there is so much to improve upon.

It Ayling starting point is to high and his age does not allow his legs to recover quickly enough.

I agree with everything you say Daniel - absolutely right.

Ampadu hasn't affected the game, Ayling hopelessly lost, James impossible to fathom, Meslier looks like a lost boy when Cardiff are in the box and needs to be replaced ASAP.

Cardiff will absorb this slow build up all day and just hit on the break.

The build up needs to speed up the ball movement and have space in the middle for Sinisterra and Summerville to play in. Also I take jameoff and move Sinisterra wide and bring Perkins up top with Gnonto

One left foot ? Measlier is the same mostly goes right ?

It always a gaping hole on our right side as our defender is way to high up as a starting position.

For the record Dremah had a hamstring strain. Greenwood is in a moonboot.

First goal Sinesterra gives the ball away (so careless), Ayling out of position. But we still had chances to clear the ball.

Second goal non-defending.

Sorry but with this kind of defence you can hardly expect to keep the opponents from scoring.

Sign a left back, play Cresswell and hopefully Drameh will return quickly from injury. Going forward it's looks pleasing and good on the eye (at times) but with no end product.

In midfield we're relying too much on young Archie.

Agree Daniel, but Sinesterra was at fault too for given the ball away for the first goal.

Don't know why we don't do it, but either one of the CB's or midfielders should cover the RB position or simply tell Ayling to stay in his position.

For the second young Hjelde got beat far to easy, that was very passive defending.

Now Drameh is out for while and Greenwood apparently for even longer.

Hopefully we can somehow snatch a draw from this game.

Drameh has been injured. Think he was 50-50 for being ready for today.

I'm guessing Greenwood is injured as well given he's been conspicuous by my his absence.

Got a hamstring injury

Struijk and Cooper are both central defender, it doesn't make much difference whether one is on the left or the right. They're interchangeable.