Agreed, we need more presence in midfield, I would have Swift on instead of Diangana.
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Shocking display so far, Bristol city again
Only listening to this but sounds like we haven't got going yet whereas Blues have gone for it from the start. Button error or not they seem to be playing long balls for their target man and we haven't dealt with it yet and you could just feel that goal coming. Time for us to change things around still but it would be nice if we could knock this habit we have of having to play from behind at times. Need to get much better service in for Dike than he's been having so far, although would still have preferred Asante as he makes more moves to try and create chances.
Birmingham have been up for this fixture on both games. Need to take control.
Button, Grady and Dike - complete waste of space
Credit to Birmingham they’re giving us no room at all. Right tactics to stop us playing.
The Blues players have been putting in some very dodgy tackles, the one by their No10 on Townsend looked nasty.
We’re not getting an inch tonight. Diangana and Dike have to come off. Being pressed this much we need all 11 pulling their weight.
Certainly seems that they are playing quite a physical game but we need to match it as it's working for them and Birmingham are stifling us- and it's not just Diangana. To be fair to Dike, he can't do much with lack of service but wish he'd put more effort in. Albrighton doing ok but the rest need to wake up more. Sure CC may be having words at half time!