Today's og was a fluke. Shot was going wide, but it's instinct to try and block it.JoeMercer'sWay said:taking away everything else the only reason we've dropped any points all season is because of our defensive sloppyness and mistakes.
we'd have won today if it wasn't for Lescott's needless deflection, it was the soft goal at Fulham, 2 soft goals in Naples, 2 soft goals in Munich, soft goals in the Community Shield and we were poor defensively at home to Napoli as well.
That in itself is a positive and a negative, the negative is our silly mistakes which is the only thing holding us back, even in games that we win, and a positive because it's us making the mistakes, so we can, and by now, should be rectifying it.
Apart from Cavani at COMS maybe and Fletcher maybe at OT, has anyone genuinely scored a good goal this season that we couldn't have done a lot better with?
Marvin said:Today's og was a fluke. Shot was going wide, but it's instinct to try and block it.JoeMercer'sWay said:taking away everything else the only reason we've dropped any points all season is because of our defensive sloppyness and mistakes.
we'd have won today if it wasn't for Lescott's needless deflection, it was the soft goal at Fulham, 2 soft goals in Naples, 2 soft goals in Munich, soft goals in the Community Shield and we were poor defensively at home to Napoli as well.
That in itself is a positive and a negative, the negative is our silly mistakes which is the only thing holding us back, even in games that we win, and a positive because it's us making the mistakes, so we can, and by now, should be rectifying it.
Apart from Cavani at COMS maybe and Fletcher maybe at OT, has anyone genuinely scored a good goal this season that we couldn't have done a lot better with?
Liverpool got the luck today and some refereeing decisions but still couldn't beat us. We weren't at our sharpest after a tough week, but I wouldn't describe us as defensively sloppy. They only got on top in the last 15 mins when we went down to 10 men and possibly fatigue took hold. Newcastle were lauded as |Geordie heroes and they got battered in the last 20 mins, but you call us sloppy?
You are a perfectionist. I'll not deny we haven't been sloppy on the odd occasion, but you do realise that we have the best defensive record in the Premiership, and at the same time the best attacking record. I hope you don't think we were sloppy today. Hart's goal came under pressure only when we were down to 10, and tired after midweek.JoeMercer'sWay said:Marvin said:Today's og was a fluke. Shot was going wide, but it's instinct to try and block it.JoeMercer'sWay said:taking away everything else the only reason we've dropped any points all season is because of our defensive sloppyness and mistakes.
we'd have won today if it wasn't for Lescott's needless deflection, it was the soft goal at Fulham, 2 soft goals in Naples, 2 soft goals in Munich, soft goals in the Community Shield and we were poor defensively at home to Napoli as well.
That in itself is a positive and a negative, the negative is our silly mistakes which is the only thing holding us back, even in games that we win, and a positive because it's us making the mistakes, so we can, and by now, should be rectifying it.
Apart from Cavani at COMS maybe and Fletcher maybe at OT, has anyone genuinely scored a good goal this season that we couldn't have done a lot better with?
Liverpool got the luck today and some refereeing decisions but still couldn't beat us. We weren't at our sharpest after a tough week, but I wouldn't describe us as defensively sloppy. They only got on top in the last 15 mins when we went down to 10 men and possibly fatigue took hold. Newcastle were lauded as |Geordie heroes and they got battered in the last 20 mins, but you call us sloppy?
We have been defensively sloppy this season, yes, Wolves home, Spurs goal, United's goal in the Community Shield, Newcastle home, Napoli both games, Bayern we switched off, Villa home for their goal and several chances, even today we were letting them have cracking chances on several occassions and that's all because they pushed against us.
Maybe we also need some "how to deflect the ball away from the goal" training.
You can't cater for fluke goals like that. We conceded that goal but didn't let it upset us too much though I was absolutely gutted at the time.hirop said:It would have been a good point before the game. It's definetly a good point now, given the last 20 minutes (tiredness set in) and the red card (cemented the tiredness). Lead intact.
The real downside for me in the performance, was flinging away a pretty dominant start, i would like to see the team kill the game in phases - like right after taking the lead today, and the start of the second half in Naples. Went from silencing anfield, to handing the initiative to Liverpool, which they never really handed back - how that happened after the first 30 I'll never know. Earned the right to boss the game then pissed it away giving up a fluke goal.
Suarez does it week in week out. You'd think refs would have him sussed by now.simon23 said:im not one to usually have a go at ref's or individual opposition players but the ref's performance today was appauling and suarez is a disgrace.....
he was clearly trying to get kompany sent off with his diving tot he ground at every opportunity. how he wasnt booked for it ill never know
the ref let a couple of awful challenges by liverpool players go unpunished esp the one that went straight through the back of a player.
and balo's sending off was a disgrace....we should appeal that for sure.
a point in those circumstances is a good result in my opinion and we are still 5 pts ahead of second place and its nearly december...get to new year in this postion and that is real progress!