Not quite my most dreaded fixture of the season but certainly in the top 5. The point we got there last season was daylight robbery, though we did perform much better when we played them at home. I remember reading a lot on here about them battering us but honestly not remembering Hart having to do a great deal in that game. Modric should have buried his chance but everyone has those from time to time. Our goal was quite fortuitous but it was nothing like the opening day display at WHL which was frankly embarrassing.
I do think today, if nothing else, we're going to get a warm fuzzy feeling from our bench. And on it plenty of players who can come on and change it up if it's not going our way (Balotelli I'm looking at you..)
As others have said there are just some fixtures you're destined not to win. How we didn't take 6 points off Everton last season I will never, ever know. But we didn't, because that's just our lot. And I fear getting battered at WHL even when we're making Barcelona look silly is just another one of those things we'll have to deal with over the coming seasons :p
I think today will be our first season mini-crisis. We'll look shaky and overwhelmed, and the board will go into meltdown worrying that our season is over already and we're still not good enough, Mancini out, etc. Then we'll realise it's one result and despite the same thing happening last season we still finished two country miles ahead of Spurs.