' COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT MORE GOALS TONIGHT '

by **carlccfc** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 10:19 pm

Officially 156 City fans made the long trip to the North East tonight to face a Middlesbrough team pushing for automatic promotion.

The bluebirds were in confident mood heading to the Riverside after Saturday's demolition of another promotion contender Brighton.

Despite taking the lead through a fantastic strike from Fabio, City were making far too many mistakes all over the pitch and in particular Manga and Connolly looked to be out of sorts more than most.

The centre back pairing had a difficult night from the first minute and it didn't get much better throughout the ninety minutes.

City could have lost by more, Marshall made a penalty save, had Borough's strikers taken the opportunities that came their way.

City had chances themselves to score a couple more goals themselves but Dimi made a couple of brilliant saves to keep the bluebirds at bay.

I was confident of getting something from the game heading up there tonight but even at 1-0 it was hard to see City keeping a clean sheet, Borough used the width of the pitch and stretched our midfield and defence time and time again.

I am not disheartened by the defeat, disappointed by the loss yes but don't feel let down by the players.

City have played some good football of late and Middlesbrough showed real quality tonight so onwards and upwards I am looking forward to Preston at home on Saturday.

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by **worcester_ccfc** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 10:22 pm

Like you Carl, I'm not disheartened or anything like that over tonight. We made mistakes and were up against arguably the best team in the league.

Hard to disagree with anything you said there.

Roll on Preston on Saturday, which is now an even bigger match :ayatollah:

by **Rydogsccfc** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 10:23 pm

Wasn't expecting much from there Carl and when we went 1 nil up from a great goal from Fabio :ayatollah:

I knew it would be short lived tough game and they are there for a reason and the money they spent and at a place we struggle at anyway lets move on to a very winnable home game against Preston. :thumbright:

by **Santa Ponsa Blue** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 10:23 pm

Good post Carl :ayatollah:

STATS: Boro 3-1 Cardiff
Possession: 52% - 48%
Shots: 15 - 15
Shots on target: 9 - 5

by **grange_end1927** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 11:49 pm

This had a loss written all over it