RBmk2 said:
Rahart said:
Really? Fair enough, but my point was more to do with teams like Birmingham and us in general, they will put teams away when needed, so will Arsenal and Chelsea, they see a negative situation and try to find a solution, we see a negative situation and try to stop it from getting worse.
We have a team of individuals which are fine on the good days, when a team turns up plays shite and we look good, but when things get a little bit hard our "team" are exposed, we wont win anything with a team of individuals. Strong squads win you titles.
You're right,but lets face it...we had a couple of bad injuries,got knocked out of our stride and got a point at a place where they've only lost once (if I'm not mistaken) all season.We're still third,well within touching distance of a CL plac,still in the FA cup,still in Europe.It could be a lot worse.
It's all about mentality to me-we seem to have lost a bit of confidence,for whatever reason.rags and Chelsea have players that believe in themselves-even utter shite like Obertan is instilled with that "we will win" mindset that we seem to be losing...so it's as much about that as players on the pitch.
I would argue with any rag that our squad is better than theirs....it's just that teams don't seem to "fear" playing us like they did a few weeks ago.
It's in the head where games are won at this stage of the season as much as the boots.
That's why Mancini gets paid what he does.THIS is the point where he'll have to earn his money.
Every team has injuries, it's part of football.
They're 4th from bottom and they've only lost once at home?
I'm very glad we're in 3rd and hopefully will get a CL place, my problem is that people had high ambitions, they thought we were good enough to finish top because we spent all that money, but now we're getting a nice dose of reality because people are finally seeing that no amount of crazy money spending will give us a devine right to win anything.
I'm happy enough where we are, but I didn't go in thinking we'd win it because while on paper it might seem we've a stonger squad than United, or the rest of the top teams, the gap is still pretty wide.
And while I agree that they are "feared" they still go out and win, and drives me crazy to see people saying, oh typical another team rolling over for the Rags, the table doesn't lie, they aren't unbeaten because of fear and teams giving in. They have a good team, we have talented individuals.
They will play for eachother, ours wont.
And that's something you can't buy and you need a bloody good coach to set that into players minds.
No player at United thinks that they're bigger than the team or the manager, and if any of them has that thought, and throws a fit, they are shown the door or the bench or the reserves pretty fast.
Now I don't like them, none of us do, but our problem is that we, in some strange way, don't rate them and keep making excuses to why they win, but if we actually looked at them for what they are, a good team, we'd see why they are on top of the table unbeaten, and we're slipping down.
At this stage of the season is where it gets bloody hard, you can stumble along up till Christmas but it's the second half where teams are pushed to the limit, physically and mentally, it's where the pressure either makes or breaks you, and we're not dealing with it.