Our second hand performance, after they scored and we were on the ropes for twenty minutes, may have saved our season.Still in it, obviously. But we shot ourselves in the foot with that second half performance yesterday - brilliant opportunity to get our noses in front, but fucked it up.
Liverpool and Arsenal will both drop points somewhere. But given our performances so far, I’m not sure I see us being able to take advantage.
So weak defensively, profligate in front of goal, lacking in fight and with a paper thin squad and yet we’ve won 18 and drawn 3 of the last 21 games.The worrying thing for me is we look weak defensively every game and don’t look clinical going forward. We seem to lack a bit of fight as well. That’s never been true in recent years. Our squad is paper thin, it lacks quality on the bench. Doku and Nunes are awful buys imho. KDB is unreal but he doesn’t look fit to me again and his creativity is essential. Got a horrible feeling we will fall away in coming weeks.
Had another little think about yesterday and it was a point well earned. When you factor in Alvarez, KDB and Haaland had a real poor game against a pumped up adversary, then the rest of the players done pretty well overall to get that point. We are nearly at that stage of the season where every member of the squad needs to do a job when required.People chatting like there’s two or three games left and we’ve fucked the chance to go top and now need a miracle.
Ourselves and Liverpool still have a potential 18 games left to play in all comps. Arsenal, 16.
There’s a long, long way to go. All three teams will have dips in form between now and the end of the season.
We’re not only still in all three big comps. We’re favourites to win them all.
Yesterday wasn’t a disaster. Far from it. The fact we weren’t at our best, isn’t a sign of impending doom. Look at the positives. We didn’t play particularly great but still got a point in traditionally the most difficult game of the season.
This post needs to be bookmarked, one of the best iv seen in recent years for undervaluing our team, tactics and manager.The worrying thing for me is we look weak defensively every game and don’t look clinical going forward. We seem to lack a bit of fight as well. That’s never been true in recent years. Our squad is paper thin, it lacks quality on the bench. Doku and Nunes are awful buys imho. KDB is unreal but he doesn’t look fit to me again and his creativity is essential. Got a horrible feeling we will fall away in coming weeks.
NonsenseIts over
Focus on UCL