What do you make of the challenge of Cardiff City?
Fri Nov 06, 2020 10:55 am
What do you make of the challenge of Cardiff City?
BRISTOL CITY MANAGER DEAN HOLDEN:
They're always a really well drilled outfit. There's no doubt about that.
They're always a team that get on the front foot and they do play with some physicality - and you have to do that to win a game of football. It's not just about nice football, set-pieces... You have to have a little bit of everything to get a result.
They've got some real attacking threats and they've mixed it 4-4-2 with two strikers and 4-2-3-1 maybe with Wilson who's a really good player playing off the front. They've got a mixture of direct play and really good players in those forward areas.
Without the fans, it's just a bit odd for a big game like this, isn't it? Obviously there's no Bristol Rovers derby at the moment. This is a Severnside derby which the fans absolutely love, you're on TV which is nice for the fans although they can obviously watch via the club streams. So how much are you going to miss them tomorrow night and how do you try and recreate that intensity of that rivalry?
As a football fan myself, I know how much fans are really struggling at the moment and this is probably going to be a big test for our supporters with it being a Severnside derby and a Friday night game. They would have been travelling, leaving work at lunchtime and getting across there early and getting a few drinks down them and enjoying it. It's not to be. Our job is to put in a performance which gets the three points which they'll be delighted with, wherever they're watching it, and I hope that they will be enjoying a real good win tomorrow night.
In terms of our approach, we've become used to performing in empty stadiums, as daft as that sounds. We keep things pretty simple. We go out there with a mentality of how we want to start games and we try and get a rhythm to our game and start on the front foot. We've seen that in most games.
BRISTOL CITY MANAGER DEAN HOLDEN:
They're always a really well drilled outfit. There's no doubt about that.
They're always a team that get on the front foot and they do play with some physicality - and you have to do that to win a game of football. It's not just about nice football, set-pieces... You have to have a little bit of everything to get a result.
They've got some real attacking threats and they've mixed it 4-4-2 with two strikers and 4-2-3-1 maybe with Wilson who's a really good player playing off the front. They've got a mixture of direct play and really good players in those forward areas.
Without the fans, it's just a bit odd for a big game like this, isn't it? Obviously there's no Bristol Rovers derby at the moment. This is a Severnside derby which the fans absolutely love, you're on TV which is nice for the fans although they can obviously watch via the club streams. So how much are you going to miss them tomorrow night and how do you try and recreate that intensity of that rivalry?
As a football fan myself, I know how much fans are really struggling at the moment and this is probably going to be a big test for our supporters with it being a Severnside derby and a Friday night game. They would have been travelling, leaving work at lunchtime and getting across there early and getting a few drinks down them and enjoying it. It's not to be. Our job is to put in a performance which gets the three points which they'll be delighted with, wherever they're watching it, and I hope that they will be enjoying a real good win tomorrow night.
In terms of our approach, we've become used to performing in empty stadiums, as daft as that sounds. We keep things pretty simple. We go out there with a mentality of how we want to start games and we try and get a rhythm to our game and start on the front foot. We've seen that in most games.
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Re: What do you make of the challenge of Cardiff City?
Fri Nov 06, 2020 6:42 pm
We go out there with a mentality of how we want to start games and we try and get a rhythm to our game and start on the front foot. We've seen that in most games....
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