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Team moving forward needs a solid base in midfield

Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:53 am

We need to earn the right to play. We have been too light in midfield. The tinkering he has been doing means that no one knows their roles properly and hasn’t been able to create understanding or partnerships. We need solidity now.

This is what we I think we need for last four games.

Gk Horvath

RB Ng
LB Bagan
CB Fish
CB Daland

CDM Chambers / Rinomoto
CDM Turnbull
CM Robertson / Colwill

RW Davies / Ashford
LW O’Dowda / Alves

CF Salech / Robinson

Reason for the extra players in those four positions is so that they can press and press and press and then get subbed when they can’t press anymore then the replacements press.

Solid back four with two holding midfielders. One tackles (Chambers) and the other passes (Turnbull). There is pace on the wings to push forward. Salech and Robinson both have goals in them.

Chambers is being over run in midfield. He has played his best when he has a smart player next to him. (Ralls or Ramsey).

Re: Team moving forward needs a solid base in midfield

Sun Apr 13, 2025 9:19 am

Maccydear wrote:We need to earn the right to play. We have been too light in midfield. The tinkering he has been doing means that no one knows their roles properly and hasn’t been able to create understanding or partnerships. We need solidity now.

This is what we I think we need for last four games.

Gk Horvath

RB Ng
LB Bagan
CB Fish
CB Daland

CDM Chambers / Rinomoto
CDM Turnbull
CM Robertson / Colwill

RW Davies / Ashford
LW O’Dowda / Alves

CF Salech / Robinson

Reason for the extra players in those four positions is so that they can press and press and press and then get subbed when they



can’t press anymore then the replacements press.

Solid back four with two holding midfielders. One tackles (Chambers) and the other passes (Turnbull). There is pace on the wings to push forward. Salech and Robinson both have goals in them.

Chambers is being over run in midfield. He has played his best when he has a smart player next to him. (Ralls or Ramsey).



Spot on, we have lost everything that made us Cardiff City, our physicality. The playing the right way obsession has caught up with us, we are undersized and slow. Warnock team could also out pass this team, out-run, and out-fight.

Chambers is the sitter, there to break up play, he was chasing the ball like a 19 year yesterday, without Ralls Championship know how there are gaps everywhere.
Robertson is a kid who has struggled with the step up top championship, Rubin is an enigma, and playing Robinson as the AMC/Seconds striker leaves you 2 vs 3 in the contact area and we lose it.

Whatever league we are in next season we need to replace Ralls and get genuine speed in