They might be winnable but you have to earn each one of those wins and take each game as it comes! I guarantee we don't get more than eight points from those four matches, and I'm being optimistic at that too!
it doesn't matter what we might say i think rodgers let slip that he's a bit cocky about his chances. i'll be watching for players arsing around thinking the points are theirs. Its fine to blurt out one game at a time as manager when its a hard game coming up but when you drop it for a bit of a bullish statement about being on the march aftera little run then it needs to be watched.
^This. People say that you say stuff and your team gets cocky, but that's not it at all. The other teams take it as personal insult, and don't want to be just a 'stepping stone' if you will.
FFS. Ain't you all taking this far too seriously. Even if Rodgers said nothing then you lot would interpret the silence as indicating something. He's right anyway. We don't have as difficult a run-in as our nearest competitiors. That with the performances since the turn of the year does give us some increased hope.
I don't care who we play next or what run of games we have. You take it one game at a time, show the opposition respect and work hard to get maximum effort and hopefully three points! A managers comments are paramount to this...
Surely after getting stung a few times this season after a few decent results the players will be aware this is potential banana skin.? What's required is using Southampton's desire for points against them. They will expect pressure and a fluid passing game, will try close down the space to operate in and hit us with a sucker punch, or hope we have a shocker. I have a feeling sometimes against these teams that we're expected to beat that if we go looking to get a draw we'll get a win. We need to invite them out to try play and pick em off cos we have the quality to do so, the more space in the final third there is the better for us by a margin compared to pinning back 10 players into 25 yards of pitch as has happened a fair few times in games like this. I'd like to set out to not get suckered after thrashing ourselves against a compact two banks of 4 and their strikers will be working back too. A team willing to sit back doesn't suit our game best at all though that doesn't mean we can't score v a team parking the bus but it has been a problem for us. Let em get it into midfield, press and steal possession and hit em with slicing attacks. If we take the ball from their midfield in midfield we'll get joy and goals but I think we need to temp them out of their shell. Tactical cleverness..
I'm not reacting to what he's said today because I've not heard or read it. However, you're probably right about over reaction but wait and see what happens should we lose tommorow
This was my earlier point, though. Maybe I've missed something but the "on the march" phrase didn't appear at all in the BR quotes. All he said was that we've shown improvement from the earlier half of the season. The "march" bit was a sub-editor's usual attention grabbing ploy. This is part of what BR actually says: I'm no apologist for him, but I don't see too much wrong with that. Besides, what's wrong with a bit of optimism? Saying "let's do this" is not the same as saying "we will do this" I'd rather a positive attitude than a negative one, and a rallying call is not necessarily over ambitious.
I agree why not be positive? Lets hope we get a win and move on and look at the next game with the same attitude.
Completely agree. I was more responding to, in page one, someone mentioned Benitez' interview costing us the title, I was saying my reason why it could have.
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