{"id":1191177,"date":"2026-09-07T09:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1191177\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:48:19","slug":"bristol-city-opinion-michael-skubalas-understated-confidence-key-to-robins-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1191177\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol City opinion: Michael Skubala&#8217;s understated confidence key to Robins DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">When Bristol City went 1-0 down against Burnley on Saturday, there were very few in the stadium feeling the game was over for the Robins.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even Burnley fans around the press box knew there was still something in manager Michael Skubala&#8217;s back pocket which could turn the game back towards City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is that quiet, understated confidence that he exudes which will become the DNA of a rebuilt Bristol City this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Skubala brings a belief missing from Bristol City&#8217;s recent past. Some fans may not have worked out his tactical philosophy so early in the season. But what they have worked out is he always seems to find a way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You don&#8217;t always have to be constantly dynamic to win a football match. Sometimes, it is just about having patience and knowing when to change things up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His substitutions after Burnley&#8217;s 56th-minute opener were a case study in that philosophy. And Bristol City now have a squad with competition in most roles to allow him to make those decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Bristol City went 1-0 down against Burnley on Saturday, there were very few in the stadium feeling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1191178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":["post-1191177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}