Coventry City 3 Sheffield United 2

[S36Reject]

Date: 15th September 2009

Venue: Ricoh Arena

Attendance:14426

Referee: A.Taylor(2/10)

Man Of The First Half: Jamie Ward

Man Of The Second Half: Mark Bunn

Man Of The Match: Jamie Ward

Blades Line-Up:
Bunn
France, Walker, Morgan, Taylor
Ward, Harper, Quinn, Montgomery, Treacy
Henderson

Subs:
Evans, Cotterill, Stewart, Bennett, Reid, Little, N.O.One

First Half:
From the Radio Sheffield Commentary:
United Started sluggishly, with the 1 Change Due to, Alleged, Illness Matthew Kilgallon being Replaced by France with Walker moving into the Centre to Partner Morgan.
Coventry using McIndoe tpo exploit Uniteds Obvious Weakest Link, Challenging and Beating Ryan France at Right Back Time and time again. All 3 Goals from the Coventry Prospective coming from Mistakes from the Shakey United Player.
France making only his 5th Appearance in a Blades shirt, Was taken apart early on for McIndoe to send a great cross into the United Box, Walker caught Static as The Lively Best Nodded in from Close Range (12)
1-0 Best (12)
United Rallied led by the Impressive Ward. Everytime the Striker got hold of the ball, The Coventry Gasped at his Direct Ruunning and Threatening Pace Henderson, Harper and Quinn all had efforts saved before Ward Picked up a Great Cross field ball from Taylor, Took a stab inside and hit an Unstoppable 25 Yard Shot Past the Home sides Outstretched Keeper
1-1 Ward (31)
The rest of the half was full of Mixed Possesion and silly niggling Mistakes Hendersojn and Quinn going Closest for United, McIndoe clearly Tiring as Coventry's Threat was thwarted
HT 1-1 Scrappy

Second Half:
No Changes at Half Time But it was the Home side that started the brightest, Ward being the Only real United Player Mentioned as United Defended and Countered. Coventry Didn't take long to take the Lead again, As France messed up a Routine Montgomery Clearance, Virtually passing the ball to Bestg who took the ball, unmarked and unchallenged, Forward, Morgan Came to Challenge but Best Found Morrison with surprising Ease and Morrison Slotted home
2-1 Morrison(50)
Coventry continued in the ascendancy, United being left with nothing going forward. McIndoe again beating France to the byline, but the Make-Shift RB recovered and Conceded a Corner! McIdoe took the Corner and Crainey lost Henderson and headed home Unchallenged
3-1 Crainey(60)
Again United woke up, But after all 3 Substitues were pulled on Quinn, Treacy and Taylor making way for Evans, Cotterill and Stewart Respectively United showed signs of life Ward as usual being the most Creative! In fact it was Wards Invention that led to the Next Goal. Stewart defending well, clears his lines direct to Ward who controls well, Loses his marker and shoots a Pile-driver which the Coventry Keeper can only Parry to the waiting HARPER, who volleys home
3-2 Harper (76)
United continued to pile the pressure on but to no Avail. Several shots from Evans, Ward, Cotterill and Henderson was Defended with worrying ease in the closing Stages
FT 3-2

One things for certain...Killa's agent would have been rubbing his hands last night, cos right now we don't have ANYONE in the squad that can replace him.
Walker was bullied by Leon Best throughout the game, and after Best had easily turned Walker on the edge of the box to create a chance, he did exactly the same thing 2 minutes later and buried it.
First 20 minutes was plain aweful!! Quinn forever giving the ball away, Harper invisible, and Treacy not able to beat his man. Eventually we began to get into the game, and Wards goal was a peach of a shot and just reward for a player who gave 100% all night, unlike some of our players who thought they'd have a night off We finished the half much stronger, but failed to score some easy chances. One from quinn who missed from 4 yards out was just laughable,but we thought it would be a formality to win the game in the 2nd period.
On my way into the lounge for a half time bevvy, I spotted paul Walker/keith Edwards/Seth Bennet sat at the commentry desks, and was able to ask them why Killa was not there? as up to that point we hadn't a clue. They told us he had a chest infection, but that didn't ease our suspicions that he was negotiating a loan deal elsewhere
Coventry kicked off the 2nd half while half the Blades were still in the dressing room, or so it seemed, as once again we looked sloppy early on. Coventry's 2nd goal was keystone cops defending. A high ball looped out to the coventry left should have been attacked and cleared by Ryan (pig fan) France, but instead he backed off and watched Monty struggle to get to it. Monties trusty right foot just deflected the ball into the path of McIndoe who had a clear run down the wing before squaring for Morrison to score. It's commonly known that France is a pig fan! so why the hell is he allowed to wear the red & white He's just not good enough anyway. 3rd goal was a header from a corner or free kick, and again It was poor defending. From then on it was all United, and we did have chances to win the game, but if you conceed 3 soft goals then generally you will lose the game.
Taylor went off with a back injury, but Jordan Stewart fitted in and did a good job. Ched added some running thru the middle, and was unlucky with a strike that just clipped the top of the crossbar. Cotts came on and played some great balls in from the right that we were unfortunate with.

I fear the worse for Friday

So disappointed about last night following a bloody good win and performance on Saturday against the sheepshaggers.

I`m with YouFums on last night. We did nowt until we got level and should have gone into half time in front. Their goal just after half time knocked the D'Urso out of us. Hendo was superb last night in my opinion, as was Wardy although we lacked shape and balance with Killa missing which worried me.

Despite last night, I feel we`ll be celebrating a hog roast on friday night when we beat those blue and white illegitemate people.

COYRAWW

Ok, Rate 'em

Bunn
France
Walker
Morgan
Taylor
Ward
Montgomery
Harper
Quinn
Treacy
Henderson
Evans
Cotterill
Stewart

[S36Reject]

Bunn 8
France 2
Walker 6
Morgan 6
Taylor 5
Ward 9
Montgomery 6
Harper 7
Quinn 6
Treacy 6
Henderson 6
Evans 6
Cotterill 6
Stewart 7

[RomaBlade]

Bunn 7
France 4
Walker 5
Morgan 6
Taylor 6
Ward 8
Montgomery 5
Harper 6
Quinn 4
Treacy 5
Henderson 5
Evans 6
Cotterill 5
Stewart 7

[YouFUMS]

Bunn ............... 6
France ............. 4
Walker............. 5
Morgan ............ 6
Taylor .............. 7
Ward ............... 8
Montgomery....... 6
Harper ............ 6
Quinn ............. 5
Treacy ............ 6
Henderson......... 7
Evans ............. 7
Cotterill ............7
Stewart ............7

[HSBCBLADE]

AS SEEN FROM BLOCK 9, ROW F, SEAT 27.

Bunn - 7 - let down by his defenders.
France - 5 - Sacre Bleu!! - What a chance to stake his claim but didnt inspire much confidence.
Walker - 6 - Nervous start, seemed confused by movement of their front two.
Morgs - 6 - hate to say it but looked uncomfortable without Killa.
Taylor - 7 - to be fair,best of the back four.
Treacy -7 - unlucky to be substituted, created plenty of chances.
Monty - 6 - Not as effective as had to play a lot deeper than normal.
Harps - 6 - wasnt a patch on saturdays performance.
Quinny - 6 - Ditto and wasted a great chance to score.
Wardy - 9 - ran his nuts off and what a goal!!!!!
Hendo - 8 - ignore the boo boys mate, you did good.

SUBS
Stewart - 6 - Did ok after replacing Taylor.
Cotts - 6 - should have had more time on the pitch.
Ched - 6 - The jury`s still out.

Not a good evening in the most souless stadium i`ve been to for ages. Roll on friday night.

[BobBooker]

Bunn ............... 6
France ............. 3 Crappity Smack off back to the pigs..
Walker............. 5
Morgan ............ 6
Taylor .............. 7
Ward ............... 9
Montgomery....... 7
Harper ............ 6
Quinn ............. 5 needs shooting practice....
Treacy ............ 6
Henderson......... 7
Evans ............. 7
Cotterill ............7
Stewart ............7

[Staboblade]

Bunn.7
France.1
Walker.5
Morgan.6
Taylor.5
Ward.8
Montgomery.8
Harper.7
Quinn.7
Treacy.6
Henderson.5
Evans.5
Cotterill.7
Stewart.6

[S36Reject]

Average Ratings for this Match:

1, Ward............... 8.5
2, Bunn................ 6.8
3, Stewart............ 6.7
4, Montgomery....... 6.3
4, Henderson......... 6.3
4, Cotterill............ 6.3
4, Harper............. 6.3
8, Evans.............. 6.2
8, Taylor.............. 6.2
10, Morgan........... 6
10, Treacy............ 6
12, Quinn............. 5.5
13, Walker............ 5.3
14, France............ 3.2