' Ole Gunnar Solskjær gives an honest account on his team '

' Ole Gunnar Solskjær gives an honest account on his team '

23rd February 2014

Today we didn't have constant pressure, we were hit on the counter-attack"


After a bright opening, Cardiff City fell to defeat against a clinical Hull City on Saturday; two goals in each half giving the Tigers all three points in the Welsh capital.

Following the match Ole Gunnar Solskjær gave an honest appraisal of the afternoon, stressing that hard work, application and belief are the factors that can help keep his team in the top flight.

“We just weren't good enough in the two boxes.” The manager summarised, reflecting on a performance that could have seen Cardiff out of sight within the first twenty minutes. “We conceded two goals in the two attacks they had in the first half – the first mistake we made, they pounced on it.

“We were unfortunate to be 1-0 down after twenty minutes, but that's football, if you don't take your chances you've got to hold your hands up and say you didn't deserve it.”

Penalty appeals were waved away by Howard Webb, but Ole refused to blame other factors, simply saying, “I'm not going to make any excuses. It comes down to what we did on the pitch.

“You can't hide the fact that we've lost to a team around us. It's going to take a run to catch some of the teams, but we still need five wins in the next eleven. We need fifteen more points. We need to work hard and do the right things, not make rash decisions.

“We did create chances, but of course we cannot give [Jelavic] time inside the box. They were efficient, they defended really well and scored four goals with five shots on target.”

Despite the obvious frustrations and disappointment from within the dressing room after a bad day, the Cardiff boss took positives from his squad’s endeavour and their insistence to push forward, even when three down.

“The lads never stopped trying,” he said. “We are working every single day – crossing, finishing and shooting to address it.

“These lads, knowing the character of them, will roll their sleeves up and give everything. They will never lay down and give up. That's the only way we're going to get out of this, by working hard and sticking together, doing the right things.

“The players wanted to do a bit too much today and that's good – you want players with the enthusiasm to make a difference. The enthusiasm and effort was there, but the decision making let us down.

“You can't concede soft, easy goals. That's been one of our strengths – we've got a goalkeeper and defence that can deal with pressure. Today we didn't have constant pressure, we were hit on the counter-attack.

“We know what we need to do. We need to find that fifth win – although we could now need a surprise result in that mix.”

Positives??? We were shite..


I'm sorry ole. Your clueless.

Overhauling all the tactics employed this season was not a rash decision then Ole?

teams have realised we are toothless at the front,they are happy to let us play up there end and hit us on the counter.....we needed a goalscorer in the window,sadly that didnt happen....

MAGNUS 's sloppy pass to set up there first goal...was not sleeves rolled up..it was a casual lazy pass

Taylor's sloppy pass for the fourth was equally lazy...

Cowie was caught out wide too often when Fabio lost possession up front and the gaps through the middle were huge

Magnus and Cowie as a centre midfield pairing was woefully exposed.. they are clearly not strong enough and the back four had little or no protection in front of them

OLE's attacking policy..... 0-3..0-0... 1-2.... 0-4 the last three at home


Sorry Ole the team is not good enough and I think you are out of your depth

He's saying defence is one of our strengths? It may have been before Christmas, but since he took over, our defence has been shocking!. Every goal we've conceded at home since Jan has been down to sloppy defending, we're making average strikers look like Messi.

He's saying defence is one of our strengths? It may have been before Christmas, but since he took over, our defence has been shocking!. Every goal we've conceded at home since Jan has been down to sloppy defending, we're making average strikers look like Messi.

Agreed, but you can go back further than January. In fact pretty much all season. Newcastle and Southampton spring to mind.

He's saying defence is one of our strengths? It may have been before Christmas, but since he took over, our defence has been shocking!. Every goal we've conceded at home since Jan has been down to sloppy defending, we're making average strikers look like Messi.

Our defence has pretty much been shocking all season which is why Marshall is far and away the top shot stopper in the Premiership. Turner was never up to it, we haven't really got a decent left back except one for the future and the right back position has been occupied by 4 different players, remember we started with Connolly! I dread to think were we would be without Caulker and not always appreciated by me except when he is missing Medel

He's saying defence is one of our strengths? It may have been before Christmas, but since he took over, our defence has been shocking!. Every goal we've conceded at home since Jan has been down to sloppy defending, we're making average strikers look like Messi.

It has always been shit, under malky we put another bank of 5 players in front of it to protect them

I guess i’m alone but I thought we played quite well in the first half, sadly we found ourselves 0-2 down but we certainly had the chances. Silly mistakes cost us in this game.

The most annoying thing is the problems we have are the problems we have had for a years. We spent a fortune and we still haven’t solved the problems upfront or at fullback.

I guess i’m alone but I thought we played quite well in the first half, sadly we found ourselves 0-2 down but we certainly had the chances. Silly mistakes cost us in this game.

The most annoying thing is the problems we have are the problems we have had for a years. We spent a fortune and we still haven’t solved the problems upfront or at fullback.

You are not alone. Both team and fans fall apart on that 3 goal. Its totally insane how we lost this. Hard to put a finger on what is wrong other than confidence and some crutial errors both on top and in defence.. All we can do is help with confidence and support on getting this right.. But also we could put ourself before the team, shout we are shait and say " i told u so" all season long...

I guess i’m alone but I thought we played quite well in the first half, sadly we found ourselves 0-2 down but we certainly had the chances. Silly mistakes cost us in this game.

The most annoying thing is the problems we have are the problems we have had for a years. We spent a fortune and we still haven’t solved the problems upfront or at fullback.

I spent HT reminding people how many chances we had created and that we had gifted them 2 goals.
I was disappointed Ole changed the team & shape, had we scored the goal on 56 mins instead of them I believe we would have got something.
Admittedly we were garbage after that, but our confidence is low meaning we are very fragile, I just hope Ole has his strongest team in mind now with all players available and he sticks to it!

I guess i’m alone but I thought we played quite well in the first half, sadly we found ourselves 0-2 down but we certainly had the chances. Silly mistakes cost us in this game.

The most annoying thing is the problems we have are the problems we have had for a years. We spent a fortune and we still haven’t solved the problems upfront or at fullback.

I spent HT reminding people how many chances we had created and that we had gifted them 2 goals.
I was disappointed Ole changed the team & shape, had we scored the goal on 56 mins instead of them I believe we would have got something.
Admittedly we were garbage after that, but our confidence is low meaning we are very fragile, I just hope Ole has his strongest team in mind now with all players available and he sticks to it!

You are not alone, I said at half time had we had Long and Jelavic and they had our two then I am sure we would've been out of sight after 30 mins, but we don't have a good enough strike force.

I guess i’m alone but I thought we played quite well in the first half, sadly we found ourselves 0-2 down but we certainly had the chances. Silly mistakes cost us in this game.

The most annoying thing is the problems we have are the problems we have had for a years. We spent a fortune and we still haven’t solved the problems upfront or at fullback.

First half was one of the best half's I have seen us give.

The goals were horrendous to give away.

We never had a good defence even with MM.

with all these Positives we have out of games we've been beaten in, we must have enough positives now to built a a block of apartments called Positive Towers !
Positives are only positives when you learn from them, We DONT! so what can be positives about that ?

We hear politicians talk like this after they lost an election by a land slide defeat, and we all know how they lie.
Lets face facts ,we have about 4 players that we could call Prem players , and one of them ( Medel ) is out for weeks.
We have a championship side playing in the prem, even after splashing out near 50mil, to me that says one thing only bad management and poor decisions from the board room.

with all these Positives we have out of games we've been beaten in, we must have enough positives now to built a a block of apartments called Positive Towers !
Positives are only positives when you learn from them, We DONT! so what can be positives about that ?

We hear politicians talk like this after they lost an election by a land slide defeat, and we all know how they lie.
Lets face facts ,we have about 4 players that we could call Prem players , and one of them ( Medel ) is out for weeks.
We have a championship side playing in the prem, even after splashing out near 50mil, to me that says one thing only bad management and poor decisions from the board room.

The world is not all black and white. Its so butifull when football clicks, things slip into a good rythm and you are getting the flow. The first 11 of cardiff city can beat anyone with that rythm and flow. When you look for black and white, you will find black and white. But there is so much more!

with all these Positives we have out of games we've been beaten in, we must have enough positives now to built a a block of apartments called Positive Towers !
Positives are only positives when you learn from them, We DONT! so what can be positives about that ?

We hear politicians talk like this after they lost an election by a land slide defeat, and we all know how they lie.
Lets face facts ,we have about 4 players that we could call Prem players , and one of them ( Medel ) is out for weeks.
We have a championship side playing in the prem, even after splashing out near 50mil, to me that says one thing only bad management and poor decisions from the board room.

The world is not all black and white. Its so butifull when football clicks, things slip into a good rythm and you are getting the flow. The first 11 of cardiff city can beat anyone with that rythm and flow. When you look for black and white, you will find black and white. But there is so much more!

A clock also has a , as you put it , a Rythm too! and that makes a clock work as it should , all the cogs working together and of course it has to be set up well to make them cogs work as they should.
We don't have the quality of good cogs and the cogs we do have are not being set up to do the job they should be doing.
We are setting up an attacking side with no real quality strikers , also when you go forward ,you have to make sure ,there are no holes left behind you as you go forward, 4 nil shows we are not learning ,also we have had 12 goals against us in 6 games and we have scored 3 in 12 games. Where have you learned ,and or taken the so called positives from ?
To me its black and white , and plain to see , very little prem quality, and we don't learn from our mistakes , If that's setting up our side ,or be it the players on the field.

with all these Positives we have out of games we've been beaten in, we must have enough positives now to built a a block of apartments called Positive Towers !
Positives are only positives when you learn from them, We DONT! so what can be positives about that ?

We hear politicians talk like this after they lost an election by a land slide defeat, and we all know how they lie.
Lets face facts ,we have about 4 players that we could call Prem players , and one of them ( Medel ) is out for weeks.
We have a championship side playing in the prem, even after splashing out near 50mil, to me that says one thing only bad management and poor decisions from the board room.

The world is not all black and white. Its so butifull when football clicks, things slip into a good rythm and you are getting the flow. The first 11 of cardiff city can beat anyone with that rythm and flow. When you look for black and white, you will find black and white. But there is so much more!

A clock also has a , as you put it , a Rythm too! and that makes a clock work as it should , all the cogs working together and of course it has to be set up well to make them cogs work as they should.
We don't have the quality of good cogs and the cogs we do have are not being set up to do the job they should be doing.
We are setting up an attacking side with no real quality strikers , also when you go forward ,you have to make sure ,there are no holes left behind you as you go forward, 4 nil shows we are not learning ,also we have had 12 goals against us in 6 games and we have scored 3 in 12 games. Where have you learned ,and or taken the so called positives from ?
To me its black and white , and plain to see , very little prem quality, and we don't learn from our mistakes , If that's setting up our side ,or be it the players on the field.

I could write two pages to answer this, but i wont bore you. It will all reveal itself in good time. Many say the first half of the hull game is the best tbey have seen all year.. They have the quality and they are learnig. Maybe the clock i ticking, but its not all black and white.. Ive been down this road so many times, and then it just clicks. Hard work and time allways work!

Yer well I'm sure I could write a hell of a lot more too, and Im not new to this game ,I have been watching City and football in general, from 1958. But we all have our opinions ,so i will respect what you have to say, agree or not

Yer well I'm sure I could write a hell of a lot more too, and Im not new to this game ,I have been watching City and football in general, from 1958. But we all have our opinions ,so i will respect what you have to say, agree or not

Cheers mate