Haller celebrates his goal against Palace
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Ok, maybe it’s now time to end the miserable outpourings of the last 48 hours or so and get things into a proper perspective.
Yes, it was a poor performance against Palace but we also need to remember that it came at the end of six match unbeaten Premier League run when we had played some outstanding football.
More importantly we need to look at the League table as we enter that awful wilderness called the international break and observe positions one or two of the so called elite find themselves in.
It shows a massive decline by Manchester United, Everton and Spurs in particular – is that permanent? Only time will tell but with the Irons in eighth place on 12 points perhaps the complaints are more than a bit over the top,
Beyond Man United and the Spuds we see The Toffees sitting in 18th place whilst unlikely outfits such as Palace and Burnley in sixth and seventh. Will they finish there – very doubtful!
One poor performance is excusable and perhaps now is the time to wind in our necks a bit, realise it’s very early days and that we should all relax a bit.
I have no doubt that the sack race among managers is about to begin with Ole Gunnar Soskjaer, Marco Silva and maybe Pochetinno in prime position for the boot.
We’ve all had a moan-up over the Palace affair but despite a poor 90 minutes we are FAR better off than some of the so called elite.
One poor performance? Manchester City, Oxford ?
Objective spectacles on, I think we can all agree that every position from 3rd downwards are on offer.
From what I have seen from the last 8 games, Leicester are the stronger and more consistent of the also rans.
Chelsea, whilst in transition, are beginning to look good. Arsenal are as inconsistent as we are. Spurs appear to be imploding and Man U are absolutely sh*te. Everton are probably going to come good against us whilst Wolves will continue upwards.
Realistically, if we can produce and maintain strong consistent performances, anywhere from 5th to 8th could be achievable.
Optimism rules OK.
Hugh.
If we’re being honest we haven’t been all that great all season.I mean by that a superb performance where we dominated and stuffed some one. Good performances against Man Utd and Norwich.
Palace were their for the taking. The first 30 minutes was absoultely dire , so slow and nothing created. We thought this game was going to be 3 given points. Palace are poor and we let them come back into the game. Definate penalty,Rice was naive,stupid and complacent if thought he was getting away with it.
We played to deep with our so called 3 creative players of form and always late helping out Haller.
We are too arrogrant as a team,the players need a real kick the backside.
Noble plays to far forward and as the slowest in the team is asked to press the highest up the pitch alongside Haller when the opposition has the ball.
After Oxford the manager and team has not learned.
A fantastic chance missed again to put some authority on our status. We could easily slide down the table with such a small gap between so many teams.
Everton will be desperate for a win and will extra determined to not fall into the bottom 3 with defeat. The performance against Bournemouth will be needed but we still need to take those chances.
Agree with much of that and I worry that in a squad where so many “creative” players have been bought we provide so little and that Haller is used simply as a work horse. I don’t see a slide but anything less than seventh will be failure as far as I’m concerned.
I think the creative players lack pace to get in behind or to quickly break that imho is our problem, if we had one or two players with searing pace we could counter at speed and hurt the opponents like Palace who defend well with discipline, it was hard to break them down. Anderson is our one player that could do that but for one reason or another seems too frightened to be that direct.
It’s a strange season. We are 4pts off second but only 5 above the drop zone. The points in the bag are welcome but I don’t think our performances -even the wins/draws- have been very impressive & I am not convinced we have progressed much from last season. So -until Saturday- I had been enjoying the ride but waiting for the screech of brakes & the sound of breaking glass. Hope that was just a blip….
While I agree the performance lacked a bit of zip moving forward, we were playing against 2 banks of 4 and against a very well organised side that didn’t leave gaps for us to move in to – despite that, we created enough chances to win the game – I think the criticism of the performance all round (twitter/facebook) is a bit OTT. They created very little, and 8 out of 10 games we take the 3 points on Saturdays performance and we are all happy!
Brighton 3-0 Spurs, Man City 0-2 Wolves & Newcastle 1-0 ManU gives WHU 1-2 Palace some perspective…sure we haven’t lost to Palace in 8 games, but the longer these winning streaks go on the closer you are to losing one & that happened on Saturday…while some people say football is a funny game, sometimes there isn’t too much to laugh about if it’s your team on the losing side…COYI…⚒⚒⚒⚒
Do not a agree at all with this ..I doubt man u or city would of said well we have done ok lately and look who else lost today so let’s not be to down .when they were in the up…😂😂no sorry you don’t get to were you want to go by having attitude like that,,, it was shocking and it isn’t just one bad game …IMO .. cracks are appearing they need to buck there ideas up before it starts unravelling…