Im_Spartacus wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:I think it's all down to us beating the rags 6-1. Everybody has started lining up against us like they are at the Alamo, even Liverpool & Chelsea. Then some bad finishing & dodgy officialdome has done the rest. Napoli showed twice how a not especially good team can fuck us up if we're not on our game. We only beat Villareal in injury time. Others are doing the same.
People ignored the Napoli result & insisted they were fantastic but imo we underperformed & lacked a plan B. then we let in crappy goals. It is our weakness when things go wrong.
It is the final hurdle to us becoming the team we hope to be. We are not there yet.
But we had 19 opportunities to score today and 10 corners, against their 6 and 1. On any other day Dzeko could have been walking away with the matchball
Its just a bad day at the office as far as I am concerned and not a symptom of a deeper malaise.
If we look back to all the main games away from home since QPR, it's fair to say we could have wrapped all of them up, but missed chances then lost or drew but the big difference was the number of breakaways we were getting prior to the 6-1. Many resulted in goals. Now we never see one. Even v Arsenal it was one late in the game, which we exploited brilliantly, but even the great attacking Arsenal sat behind the ball & stifled us. We will learn to sort it & then they will all be fucked. If we're to win the title this season we have to do it quickly though.