From top of the league to 15th in nine games? That surely has to be some form of record plummet, at least without having served a points deduction.
Todays Games
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Back home after the Swansea v Burnley game now for around an hour and an half, and have had a chance to reflect on the match.
Our first half performance was pretty decent against the best team in the Championship.
Great free-kick by them to score the first, and whilst Benda should have done better - much better - with their second, that goal emanated from Manning’s sloppy/missed tackle….
The fight back up until half time was heartening, very heartening, and with a bit of luck, we could have been level at the break.
As for the second 45, my mate and I (plus the guys around us) thought that we were extremely disappointing - in all honesty, we didn’t look like scoring, whilst Jay Rodrigues missed a sitter for them - I kept watching for the net to ripple ….
We were all dumbfounded when Russ substituted Joey Allen (easily our MoM up until that point) and Jay Fulton (nearly as good as Joe today) together and brought on Cundle and Ntcham - we (and people around us) feared that their removal would cede what control we had in midfield …. unfortunately, we were proved correct.
Cundle did very little, Ntcham made a couple of missed passes, and decided not to shoot when he could have …. then shot a few minutes later from a worse position
Our bench is pretty piss poor - Paterson and Obafemi could have been decent options, but I understand why they were not there …
Overall, yet again, we lacked pace and width - without those added extras, we won’t be troubling the Play-Off chasing contenders
Our first half performance was pretty decent against the best team in the Championship.
Great free-kick by them to score the first, and whilst Benda should have done better - much better - with their second, that goal emanated from Manning’s sloppy/missed tackle….
The fight back up until half time was heartening, very heartening, and with a bit of luck, we could have been level at the break.
As for the second 45, my mate and I (plus the guys around us) thought that we were extremely disappointing - in all honesty, we didn’t look like scoring, whilst Jay Rodrigues missed a sitter for them - I kept watching for the net to ripple ….
We were all dumbfounded when Russ substituted Joey Allen (easily our MoM up until that point) and Jay Fulton (nearly as good as Joe today) together and brought on Cundle and Ntcham - we (and people around us) feared that their removal would cede what control we had in midfield …. unfortunately, we were proved correct.
Cundle did very little, Ntcham made a couple of missed passes, and decided not to shoot when he could have …. then shot a few minutes later from a worse position
Our bench is pretty piss poor - Paterson and Obafemi could have been decent options, but I understand why they were not there …
Overall, yet again, we lacked pace and width - without those added extras, we won’t be troubling the Play-Off chasing contenders
Pity Celtic couldn’t get a winner against Rangers. 2 - 2
If they're not careful there's the danger of a game of football breaking out.........
Not watching, but I'm very surprised it's not a decent game.
Arsenal especially have been fantastic this season.
That's what I thought...1st v 3rd but it's just all stop/start, everything is a foul and a yellow card, ref has backed himself into a corner and I'd be surprised if it finishes 11 v 11......
Watching it on Sport4do with Chinese commentary...... or I assume it's commentary, it could be someone having a conversation with some others..... who knowa.
I still haven't watched one second of the Big-Six-Pricks!
Not sure you could describe Spurs as Big Six.......... pr*cks on the other hand, maybe.......
Conte taking them back faster than he had his hair transplant........ very poor..
Palace look a decent side with Ebs, Olise, Zaha.......