Sums up today's game. Millwall came to fustrate us and stop us playing, yet we kept going and trying and eventually got our reward. Koren yet again popped up with the finish and a bit of class between the 2 teams, every successful team needs players like him. Evans and Mckenna look more and more formidable in the centre if the park, and Mckenna's work at tidying things up in midfield gave Koren the licence to go and create chances with Fryatt. Gulasci has come on loads since I last saw him play and I felt confident with him in goal for us, even though he was rarely troubled. The one thing that did pee me off today was some parts of the crowd near me in the south stand, whenever city kept the ball and passed it around waiting to make the opportunity to come forwards they were calling for them to pass it up top, and when the players hoofed it quickly they were calling for them to keep the ball and pass it around?! We did the rght things today and our work rate paid off and we came away with the 3 points. 4th place, ahead of Leeds and now 9 ahead of Leicester, roll on Boro on Boxing Day, 3rd v 4th should be a cracker!
thats 2 games now, we havent been firing on all cylinders, but ground out a result with a bit of quality, good to see, with the bench getting stronger every week, could be a great 2nd half of the season...i arent one for getting carried away, in fact im usually a miserable bastard, but im after the title now, sod play offs!
The Middlesbrough game is going to be huge. Our away record is as good as their home one and being so close to the top just adds more spice. I'm quite glad we're away because the pressure will be on them.
They don't score many either (only one more than us). Probably the game of the day in the championship on boxing day, and given our current form there's no reason why we can't go up there and win.
This is one thing that frustrates me and I think it's what seperates the people who know how to play football to those who have never played the game at any decent standard. No team can chase the ball for 90 minutes without tiring and without the ball no team can score. Possession is key, the top teams keep the ball and build from the back and I bloody love watching us do it!
The young players we have got have a lot of football intelligence which is going to help us loads in the months to come, add that to the experience of Koren, Fryatt, Rosy, and Mckenna and the industry of Mclean, these are great times to be a Tigers fan!
Keep your paws on the ground tigers. A long way to go yet. As long as we keep playing good football and keep NB as manager I'll be happy over the next few years. NB's interviews are really good as are the player interviews. If NB can get the players playing like he did all will be well in the Tigernation.
Really impressed with the way the Club is progressing at the moment - we weren't at our best by any stroke of the imagination today but really never looked like losing against a workmanlike side and grabbed the all important goals when it mattered. 12 wins out of 22 after a slow start to the season is fantastic - long may it continue.
I agree and the key with us at the moment is that we are not actually having more possesion than we did under NP just the distribution, movement and awareness is so much greater that our possesion in the opponents half is greater.
