I didn’t have enough space in the headline to put ‘great goalkeeping and poor refereeing deny Boro’ so I just left it with praise for the opposition’s stopper, plus I don’t want to make people think that Boro were hard-done-by on Saturday and that Cardiff City and the officials played very well.
David Marshall in the Cardiff City goal was in inspiring form for the Bluebirds and clearly was the best performer on the park at the Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday. His saves from Barry Robson and Chris Killen were outstanding to say the least. It was a third away game in-a-row where we have been unable to breach the opposition defence which is a worrying statistic considering that those matches were against three of the top 10 sides who are chasing promotion.
I won’t go on about the refereeing decisions in the game because, to be fair, it was the same for them. I’m pretty sure they had a good case for a penalty that wasn’t given so that evened out at least one of the contentious moments but that still left us one bad decision down which would have given us a point in South Wales.
We have to expect the officials in the Championship to be worse than the elite refereeing of the Premier League so we can’t moan but we can moan at our team for not creating more and using the ball better or am I being a bit hard on the lads because after all we also must expect our team to be worse than last season’s campaign in the Premier League.
The loss to Cardiff has stopped the momentum going into the Newcastle game this Saturday which is going to be a massive test for the Boro boys. They tore Barnsley apart last Saturday, albeit because of another poor refereeing performance, and will be full of confidence as they make the short trip down the A19 so the Middlesbrough players will have to roll their sleeves up for this one if we are to get anything from the game against the league leaders.
Can we beat the Geordies at the Riverside? I’m not putting money on it that’s for sure.
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Same old situation with Boro. We play against a team away from home and thei keeper has an absolute blinder. We have been so inconsistent this season it is unreal.. one step forward, two steps back. Newcastle will pile a load more misery on us Saturday!
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Are we starting to get glimpses of Southgate in Strachan’s post match interviews?? The last three games we hav lost on the road and he says “we were not good enough”. How about doing something about it before our season ends this month.
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