Which one, SC? I was expecting it to be Parker for Dembele, but a quick look suggests that it was actually Dempsey for Sigurdsson.
Gylfi's assisted in his last three games, and came closest to scoring against Stoke. It's true he costs us width when played on the left, but I like how he takes charge things and I love his corners and headers. I really think he might be the best player to take Ade's spot if he goes to Africa. Dempsey's playing well too but I don't think his passing is as good.
The only expectation I have is to do better than we've done this season. Why we didn't bury Reading and Coventry is beyond me. Going behind at home to the second bottom club was terrible and we had a vicious deflection to go 3-1 up. Chelsea were 3-0 up against Villa at half time and buried them. I thought and expected us to do the same to Coventry at half time and am deeply disappointed that no goals were scored in the second half. So my expectation is to do better. Unless we take better control of matches this winning form won't be maintained. P.S,Adebayor can pee off.
Read it properly twonk,I posted that we should have scored more in the second half and it's that we didn't score more that I'm disappointed. I'm happy that we're through to the 4th round,happy with the win but not happy we didn't get 6 or 7,clear now?
That's a bit defeatist croydon but it's a lot better than what some other teams can expect. I don't expect to lose to any team lower than 7th place for the rest of the season and I expect to score more goals ie we scored plonk against Stoke whereas Soton scored three. I want better than that and expect to not lose in the final minutes ie Everton. I expect not to go behind at home to relegation candidates and expect to beat Arsenal,Everton and City later this season.As for Utd......................f**k knows.
Southampton were playing against a different Stoke defence and 10 men, TMT. Shawcross and Cameron were both missing and N'Zonzi was incorrectly dismissed.
Against Man City at the Etihad. Battered Liverpool, drew with Everton, went 12 games unbeaten, conceding very, very few goals... We outplayed them and should've put some of our chances away, but we still picked up 10 points from 12 over Christmas, progressed in the FA Cup and kept 4 clean sheets in 6, conceding 1 in each of the other games. We're far from perfect, but we're doing pretty well overall and we're on a very respectable run.
Agreed with all that PNP but we should not have gone behind at home to Reading and scored by a deflection and should have done an Arsenal or Chelsea against Coventry being 3-0 up at half time. We were lucky that Reading didn't equalize as well. These small signs are telling me as you say that we are not perfect and I'm a little concerned. Had we gone behind at home against a top side I doubt we'd have won 3-1. A miracle at Chelsea has kept us in third place.
Defeatist? Hardly - a heavy dose of drole sarcasm more like it! Before the season my expectation was 70 points, and thus far we seem to be on course for it - barring a spate of injuries in February, or the Portugal job becomes available and the English press tout Andre for the job rather than publicly fellate Mourinho...
