3-2 FT. Another dogshit performance against a very poor team, but this time we won. We'll need to be far better than that against Leicester on the weekend. Hopefully we'll have a few more players to choose from.
Porto lost 2-0 at home to Olypiakos, so they can't make the top 8. Lots of teams in that play-off round that I wouldn't fancy us against, if we end up in it.
I just got a bit delirious imagining us getting to the carabou cup final, beating Villa in the cup and then going on a storming run in the league that this season could turn out to be a really good one. Then I remembered which team I support and came back down to earth
Troy Parrott with a tap-in that means that Roma can't make the top 8, either: https://streamin.me/v/93ea11f7
Is this really where we are? Celebrating an iffy victory against a poor German side like we just won the Champions League? I know there must be some relief in the camp, but these optics are not great.
The obvious concern is how utterly shagged the players looked in the last ten minutes, summed up by Archie Gray keeling over at the fulltime whistle While there's fair excuses for a few of them out there, there certainly isn't one for Porro
That's what he's there for and he's proven at a good level, while Austin has barely played any games at any level. Austin certainly looks a lot better suited to Postecoglou's style of football, though. I think Forster's played more Champions League games than Austin's played games.
Eh? Porro has played the most (or second most) minutes of the squad this season. It’s him and Kulu I’m worried about next.
Another game last night where I found myself tearing my hair out, but let’s not forget it’s a win away from home after a terrible spell of form. There were times we played really well, but as usual, we shot ourselves in the foot, plenty of times too. The reality is that by half time we could have been 5-0 up, and shouldn’t have had such a close final score line if we’d taken our chances. Ange’s set up clearly makes us vulnerable at the back as we all know, but it’s time we really thought about the quality we recruit in attacking positions to counteract that fragility. We need ruthless attackers who are going to take chances and kill games. Looking at all of our options (even when all fully fit) I have little confidence in so many of them. For a variety of reasons, we’ve not got 1 player at the moment who I’d genuinely bank on for close to 20 goals a season. However, that’s a pipe dream at the moment, especially as a defender and a DM seem like an impossible ask.
