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Originally Posted by Paul
Well I cant see that repeating itself.
Poor defending, again, and unlike the first half the other day, poor in attack.
Woods should have scored, but other than that, we barely tested their keeper.
I'm glad your optimistic, I see little to be hopeful about atm, just a relegation battle.  |
The poor defending was a factor in the last few months under Nuno (who let's not forget was also partly to blame for the current situation as it seems more he engineered his own dismissal). It was April 1 vs Man Utd the last time we kept a clean sheet.
Poor defending when Murillo and Aina are both out injured means we're relying on players who weren't part of the immediate starting picture to fill the gaps. Especially at full back we don't really have the long term cover as the next options are Savona and Zinchenko.
At least we are creating chances to score, eventually they will start going in.
The style of play is in transition because we can't really keep on playing low block and Ange has to do this (as would anyone else) whilst playing midweek as well as weekends.
The lack of wins is concerning, and will get more so as it goes on, but there are still over 30 matches left to play. When we lost the first 4 and ended up promoted should be enough recent memory to show a bad start can be recovered from.
How many times last season did we concede first and go on to draw or win? I don't remember too many. Most of the time we scored first and then shut up shop often bringing on Morato and going to a back 3.