ZZmaestro
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CaliforniaBlue said:ZZmaestro said:Three different games, three diffent stories, bust still, the same old problem.
I think the main issue has always been the lack of ruthlessness and focus away from home.
While we are unmercyfull at home, we are lacking that will to overcome and crush the defences away.
But still, that game against Villa looks to me as a freaky result, they had almost 0.01% chances to win...
And a fact that has not been put under lime light is that our best player this season so far, Nasri, was subbed shortly before going bobbins at Cardif and on sattteray.
At Cardif we were 1-1 before subbing him for Navas and letting 2 goals in.
Against villa we were leading 2-1 before subbing him for Navas and again letting them chip 2 goals, what coincidence ?
I think he has become, such as Yaya and Vinnie have always been, a vital element in our formation.
We look so much less in control without him, it s not even funny.
With him till the 90th mark, you have yet to convince me that we wouldn`t have bagged 7points out of 9 possible away ...
I believe Navas started at Cardiff and was replaced by Nasri when we were 1-0 up, so that was pretty much the opposite of the Villa scenario, where Nasri started and was replaced by Navas at 2-1 up.
My bad, i was sure we had him on the pitch from the start, too much beer for me that day :-)