City 0 Cambridge 0

[Rijs]

Not a bad result, though City probably deserved more. If we don't win the league this season--and after today's results, that is looking unlikely--the reason will probably be our results against the other top teams. We've done very well against the mid-table sides, but only five points from nine games against the rest of the top six is not a convincing return, and we have just one such match left now to improve on that.

To give Cambridge credit, they did defend well and were hard to break down. City had about 60% of the possession and certainly caused the opposition more anxious moments than they caused us, but the ball just didn't fall kindly for us in their area and shots were blocked or just off target. The sending off was absolutely right--Felipe was just bearing down on their goal and it was a cynical attempt to stop him.

I thought our best player today was Declan Benjamin who battled really well, especially in the second half, and had some good runs. Mark Bell didn't have long but it was good to see he still has the speed to worry defences. And our defence was again solid--that's four clean sheets in a row now and few chances being given away in the 90 minutes. Ballard was a Trojan as ever, and we also managed to get to the byeline a few times late on. So overall, a good performance, and that without Pond, Clarke and Malone.

Finally, it was nice to see the turnstiles being used for the first time in a City match today, but are they accurate?--I did a quick headcount in the first half and there's no way there were more than 300 there then!

[Rijs]

Sorry, on a recount, six points from nine games!

[floating fan]

Agree with that account of the game, although should of had at least one penalty as there defenders used there hands on more than one occasion, ref 6 out of ten needs glasses.
Sending off his saving grace. They won't have him for two games now.

[clive]

Agree tht City deserved more from the game. I too thought Benjamin was outstanding yesterday

[Graham H]

I actually thought the ref had a good game, in fact I hardly noticed him which must be good. He got it right with the sending off.

Cambridge showed why they are near the top, with their two big centre halves making it difficult. We did better in the 2nd half when we went down the sides rather than high up the middle.

We might just have nicked it at the end, but we couldnt really complain about a draw.

Thought Adi Cambridge had a good game for them, he has always been a class player.Our defence, especially Wilmott hardly gave the free scoring Hammond a chance. For a Nil Nil it was quite a good game