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Post by somersetstokie on Sept 18, 2023 13:50:59 GMT
Of those losses, three against teams in the top 4. All games where we've lost by small margins. Yesterday we lost due to giving the ball away cheaply, conceding an easy to stop goal, then missing easy chances and not having a penalty. By the end of the game a draw was there abouts a fair result. We aren't as good as our pre season optimism and we aren't as bad as what's being said on this board. We've been losing games by small margins since before Neil took over - its just continued with him in charge. We hardly ever seem to get hammered just consistently lose by 1 goal despite the stats showing we deserved something. Its gone on for far too long now to just be a coincidence. Is it a mentality thing?[/b] If it's the same for the players as it is for me, then yes. No matter how optimistic I might feel before the game, or however approving I might be of the team selection, once we go (seemingly inevitably), a goal behind I just feel that that's it, game over. With Stoke I very rarely feel that we have it in us to overcome even a one goal deficit, and spectacular comebacks are just not something that we ever have the potential to achieve, unlike many teams who never give up. |
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Post by Bojan Mackey on Sept 18, 2023 13:52:02 GMT
Preston, Ipswich and Millwall are not Top 4 sides.
If we end the season below those three then that’s a complete failure.
It’s wank, and it’s been avoidable wank that’s what makes it worse.
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Post by boskampsflaps on Sept 18, 2023 13:52:22 GMT
Weird thing is we were taking shots from everywhere against Rotherham in the league and cup and actually getting them on target. No we just don’t seem to have the confidence to take a shot at all They gave us a lot of space, most teams won't be that kind. |
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Post by baconburger on Sept 18, 2023 14:05:33 GMT
If we could keep a clean sheet, it might take a bit of the pressure off the strikers and enable them to score. For the last 4 seasons,not just this year, If we concede a goal, the reaction from both players and fans is: Here we go again, another defeat. Why do we always need to score 2 goals to win,why can't one be enough? Because statistically speaking it hardly ever is enough nowadays average of around 2.5 goals per game, if you only score 1 you’ll generally lose and we can’t even do that. We kept 12 clean sheets last season and failed to score in 20 games. As Lambert showed if you obsess about defence you’ll generally score even less goals Arsenal winning loads of games 1-0 is decades ago the game isn’t the same. Low scoring teams don’t tend to win anything. |
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Post by cheadlepotter on Sept 18, 2023 14:20:07 GMT
Some on here were comparing our start to the season to Burnley’s last season. It’s mid-September and we’ve already lost more than they did all season!
The fact is we’ve employed a manager who has never achieved anything in the EFL with his own players. He used our lack of options in the squad last season to explain our poor results yet he’s signed 17 players this summer and is already playing a winger at right back, a right back at left back, a CAM on the wing and four CMs at the same time. The man is full of excuses to attempt to hide the fact he’s not very good at his job.
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