I never like to predict an away win, and more to the point if offered a draw now as ever away from home I would take it. 1-1, Yak for Blackburn and Demps for us. Very dull choice of scoreline and scorers but wouldn't be suprised if the game turns out something like that.
It's a very tough game to predict the winner in, Blackburn have been both awful and brilliant this season, same with us really. Blackburn have lost recent games at home that they should have won and picked up points away when they should have had none. I think there will be goals.
Very poor defending for their second. First was a soft free kick - should Stocky have got it? Very wel taken by Petersen - right in corner
Stones, glass windows etc. You have a tough away game to Newcastle tomorrow, if you win feel free to gloat all you like, if not then I suggest you crawl back into your hole and stay there.
Great result from us today, and we needed a win. Just after I posted I saw that Samba had said he wanted to leave..... made me feel a little silly. I still think you guys will do well again this season, and I hope we are still around next season to play you again. Good luck for the rest of the season.
Thanks, Happyal. Good luck to you too, and well done on the win. It sounds as if we were poor and you deserved it - particularly with no Samba and with no Yakubu for most of the match. If this match had happened six weeks ago, people here would have been tearing their hair out and calling for effigies of Jol to be hung from the lampposts. The fact that our response seems a bit more measured is, I think, testimony to the fact that things are coming good for us now. I'm seeing this result as nothing worse than a blip, albeit a very disappointing one. I just hope I'm right about that.
For me, yesterday's result is exactly the same as the one last year against West Ham, both times we lost 3-1 to the side bottom of the league around New Years time. From here, we either push on and improve massively or there's the other way...
The right way is to not to assume that because a team is bottom of the league you will automatically defeat them. Blackburn were never going to play any differently than they did at the Cottage earlier. Yet Jol sent out a team with no grit in midfield. I've said it before (Stoke was the prime example) - because a particular line up performs well in a home game it does not follow that you pick the same 11 for the next (away) game against different opposition. Tactics,tactics .. thinking, thinking. Kean outshone Jol yesterday simply by closing Murphy out of the game. Jol seems set on one idea and is unable to adjust. It pains me, but if you heard Pulis on MOTD "when we saw the team sheet we realised ... so we made some adjustments".
Not quite - we're not in the bottom three following this result, and we were at home against West Ham.
But my point is Bidders, that currently we are more likely to be looking over our shoulders at the teams below rather than looking ahead to the teams above us.
