SLADE UNHAPPY WITH MISSED CHANCES

Cardiff City manager Russell Slade bemoaned his team's failure to "convert" chances after the 0-0 draw with 10-man Birmingham at St Andrews.

The Bluebirds are still looking for their first away win in the Championship this season.

Slade felt strikers Adam Le Fondre and Federico Macheda both should have scored in the first half.

"You'd back those two to score in one-on-one situations and it's about being ruthless in both boxes," he said.
"We shut them out which was great, but then when we get the opportunities we need to finish.
"And also in the second period some really good balls were going into the box and maybe [there were] a couple of good blocks from Birmingham, but we need to convert one of those chances."

I bet Birmingham are as well.

How many times did we really trouble their goalie ?

In my opinion we did not deserve to win, a draw was fair.

Mason, I think the stats show 2 shots by either side on target

Mason, I think the stats show 2 shots by either side on target

Yes 2 shots on target by each team Annis. Our away form needs to improve and fast ! Watched the highlights last night, like you said a very boring game . And still can't understand why Slade not playing Daeli. And Fabio on the bench also surprised me . Roll on Reading in 2 weeks time

Mason, I think the stats show 2 shots by either side on target

Yes 2 shots on target by each team Annis. Our away form needs to improve and fast ! Watched the highlights last night, like you said a very boring game . And still can't understand why Slade not playing Daeli. And Fabio on the bench also surprised me . Roll on Reading in 2 weeks time

Mason,really dire game, Daehli, Fabio and also Guerra should play

Mason, I think the stats show 2 shots by either side on target

Yes 2 shots on target by each team Annis. Our away form needs to improve and fast ! Watched the highlights last night, like you said a very boring game . And still can't understand why Slade not playing Daeli. And Fabio on the bench also surprised me . Roll on Reading in 2 weeks time

Mason,really dire game, Daehli, Fabio and also Guerra should play

Yes I agree, Guerra def deserves a chance

We are simply not good enough

The team spirit seems to have gone

Slade was not the answer.....

We are simply not good enough

The team spirit seems to have gone

Slade was not the answer.....

Vincent Tan is not the answer. Eventually a lot more will see that. Hopefully soon.

I'd back Le Fondre he is 27 and scored over 150 goals.

Macheda is 23 and scored 20 ........

Macheda is not as effective as Rudy..... There's no chemistry between the front two, time to get Jones with ALF

Manager Russell Slade has said he could see plenty of progress and plenty of positives from our scoreless draw against Birmingham, but he was disappointed not to see us be more ruthless with the chances that fell our way.

Speaking to the BBC after the game, Slade pointed to the two chances that fell the way of Adam Le Fondre and Federico Macheda as he believes both of them should've nestled in the back of the net.

'You'd back those two to score in one on one situations and it's about being ruthless in both boxes. We shut them out which was great, but then when we get the opportunities we need to finish. And also in the second period some really good balls were going into the box and maybe a couple of good blocks from Birmingham, but we need to convert one of those chances.'

With Cardiff still looking for our first away win of the season now, defensively though it was a good way to draw the line under the three nil loss to Bolton Wanderers in our previous game, so Slade will have definitely taken the positives from that, but especially with the strikers we have at the club we should be doing more to test opposition goalkeepers and putting ourselves out of sight in games like this.

'We couldn't have put that shift in three weeks ago, we couldn't have played like that in a third game in a week, there's no way. But we're fitter now and mentally a little bit stronger and tougher and I think you say that out there.'

A start, maybe, but clearly plenty of improvements left to make and hopefully many of those will come with some decent confidence when we aren't so Jekyll and Hyde when it comes to home and away form.

'It's definitely progress, the players now realise how hard you have to work to get a point away from home and more importantly to get a clean sheet. I think that's the first one in I don't know how many games. We need more performances like that away from home and to continue with our home form. We've got time to regroup and again work harder.'

As for the sending off, Slade said we had to take Sean Morrison off because he had a cut on his eye from the challenge that led to the red card and was suffering blurred vision after the game, so he totally dismissed suggestions that Morrison had made the most of the situation.

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