That point against Palace, does not seem as bad now considering their recent run. Okay still should have won and still annoyed about performances like the WBA game.
Those are the two performances which still makes me angry , two games with very similar second half performances where we collapsed as spectacularly as we did.
As bad as that perormance was against palace, lets not forget it took a penalty that was outside the box for them to score.
Its fair to say we have not had a lot of luck with decisions and that when you concider the teams we have played then we have shown a remarkable improvement and the expectations and atmosphere at the liberty has improved tremendously even when we have lost against a big club who would have blown us away under laudrups football...
Agree with this MB. Gutless springs to mind. Monk couldn't explain it and neither could we. Throw in some great results like Arsenal away and the Canaries at home and it sums up our season. Topsy turvy.
Some perspective. Looking back at league positions after 35 games last season - Wigan in 3rd from bottom with 35 points were only 6 points off 11th place - not a great deal different from this season. Although Reading and QPR had gone Wigan were better placed than Fulham and Cardiff are now but still went down. At this stage last season there were no teams 6 points clear of the relegation places but 5 ahead were Stoke, Fulham and Villa all that finished comfortably above relegation. While not wanting to be complacent (and I want to see us win every game) we're safe … hopefully results will go our way on the weekend and we can relax … properly.
Me too, and if we have a gutless performance on Saturday I will go bananas! Did you see that Lambert went to the open traing session, cheeky sod!
3 points v. Villa and Norwich failing to win at Man Utd will see the job done on superior goal difference.
Not for me. West Ham was a bad day at the office, though, to be sure. Everyone in the world knew about the Carroll/Nolan threat, everyone except our defenders it seems, despite Laudrup having hammered it home time after time the week before. I know they had ten men but we battered away as they parked the bus but couldn't score despite having over 20 attempts with none on target. Palace and WBA were both different to that. After bossing the first halves we were guilty of gross capitulation in the second periods. We were comprehensively outplayed, outfought, out thought and hanging on like grim death eventually lucky to get just the one point from the two games. We attacked West Ham incessantly but just didn't have the cutting edge on the day. West Ham had drawn at Chelsea and beating us was the first win in a run of four I think. They had found some form. Palace have done similar in recent times but West Brom? Losing that game was nothing short of criminal and the manner of the defeat was horrendous. So much for the newly found "fighting spirit".
Who's going down ? Not us is all that maters every time ! But times running out for the bottom clubs which is nice .
But we should have beaten WBA - we had enough chances and played well first half. Against West Ham we were second best.
Over the season there are quite a few teams we should have beaten. If we look back at performance I'd say we 'should have beaten' Man City, ManU, Liverpool, Stoke and Arsenal at home, Southampton, Cardiff and Norwich away.
