I felt that when they scored to go ahead Spurlock. I thought that if we get one we'd get two or two halves. Had we gone ahead first then we'd have scored more. Going behind at home and waiting an hour to score our goal from a tap in isn't good imo.
Agree with you apart from that bit. For me, Arsenal have been bay far the most impressive of the big 4. On another day they'd have battered Sunderland, as for Stoke they are always tricky at the Britannia. Chelsea are still gelling as are United hence the performances, but at this stage it's only results that count. United, Chelsea and Arsenal are beginning to find their feet whilst City are grinding out results but looking vulnerable. Outside that cartel you'd have to say Everton have looked the most impressive thus far but it's early days.
Their general play was good and they never looked like conceding, created enough good chances in both games. The time to worry is when you aren't creating anything, as Chelsea weren't last season under AVB. I think so far we've seen a good Arsenal side that will most certainly not be as far off the title as they were last season.
I'm very happy with 5 out of 9 points from Etihad, Anfield, Britannia. On the day, I was disappointed with the draw at Stoke, but them and City away have consistently been one of the toughest 3-4 games in the season for us.
Only 1 goal conceded as well from those, not many (if any) will match that. If Cazorla, Wilshere, Diaby and Arteta all stay fit (or at least 3 of them) you lot won't finish any lower than 4th. I actually think on a technical level you are a better team than United but lack the power and more importantly winning mentality. Today was as well as I've seen Arsenal play against a top drawer side in about 3/4 years.
When ManU, ManC, Chelski etc don't deserve to win they "grind out" a win or are described as "great" because great teams win when they don't deserve to. Sound familiar? Thing is, if you look at the whole season these "top teams" have rather a lot of grind out wins, a lot of which come from dodgy penalties etc. Spurs rarely win games they don't deserve to and when this happens, like today, it is generally said that we didn't deserve the win. For some reason it's rarely said that these "top teams" didn't deserve their win. It's shoddy, lazy, dishonest reporting and built on cliche. And no, to be honest we didn't deserve it. Now who's going to start the poll on what type of dodgy decision will go against us at ManU next week - penalty, sending off, offside, ruled out even though it crossed the line, a Nani special?
That's only true for United. Chelsea have been slated every week on MOTD despite being top and having 3 clean sheets from 4. I haven't seen the 90 minutes of your game to comment but looking at the stats it would appear you were worthy winners. The media have given Spurs fair praise where it's due (perhaps at times too much), take the 4-3 game with Inter for instance where many were quick to heap praise on the Spurs side namely Bale despite losing and shipping 4 goals. The reporting is lazy though and you have to be extremely careful, they'll simply skew the highlights to benefit their analysis
Well,we have one defeat in 6 and if we can escape with a point next week I'll be happy with our start,even though it was on a fecking razor's edge today.
We weren't. We were the better side after we went ahead, but QPR were far better in the first half and it was even for the first 15 minutes in the second. We had 10 men for most of that game, as Gomes got sent off after 7 minutes. The comeback was pretty amazing considering that and the ref couldn't blow up quickly enough for full time once it was 4-3, only playing 2 minutes despite Bale scoring in injury time. What a load of bollocks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9137317.stm Second goal killed off the game, when it should not have been given.
Sorry Lidls, but that's just more ****e. Continuously benefiting from dubious decisions in the same fixture and then claiming that it's not decisive is just utterly stupid. Note that a number of the most outrageous ones have been given by the same bloody refs, too.
I'm not the biggest Spurs or United fan but to suggest decisions haven't been decisive is ridiculous. Had the Carrick penalty not been given in the 5-2, the title probably goes to Anfield. It's absolutely decisive as was the Mendes goal (the most shocking decision I've ever seen). If Spurs win there as they would have done, the OT hoodoo comes to an end. Last Season Spurs had a perfectly good goal disallowed to make it 1-0, which would have changed the game. Any wrong decision is decisive. Just as ours v Spurs were and them v us
I have to disagree with that. We were easily your equals until the first goal. After that, yes we disintegrated defensively. From memory, we had no adequate cover in front of our defence that day. 3-0 flattered Utd in context of the entire game.
