getdressedmctavish wrote:Ted, taking no notice of the screamers but can you put your finger on why we keep struggling away yet looking invincible at home. we seem to start off with the wrong mindset regardless of who is manager a lets wait and see approach which makes it difficult to get going. We are often very flat in the first 20 mins with passes in midfield going to players in no better positions than the passer. Ya Ya always seems to take 20 mins to get his mind focussed and his legs moving. Many of us thought it was Mancini negativism but it obviously runs deeper than that. Today the inclusion of Garcia and Milner out wide sent a defeatist message I thought from which we never recovered in the first half.Its certainly got me scratching my bonce.
Garcia was the big problem today imo. Other than that; teams are not as good away from home on the whole. Even Barca. We are the same, but we are not finding a way to win wheras the best do.
Imo, it hasn't been the same reason in any game this season though; people have taken it in turns to fuck up. Today, Demichelis could have just jogged alongside Milner & cleared up, but just stood there like a cunt & let it go. No idea why.
Garcia fucked up the whole team 1st half imo, but 2nd half we did most things right. Sunderland stuck everyone in the box & got away with it. If we had been playing our passing game from the kickoff, I doubt Sunderland would have lasted 90 mins.
V Villa I thought we were great, then the defence fucked up, outplayed Chelsea but the defence fucked up, outplayed W Ham & won, same with CSKA.
We were very dodgy v Stoke & Cardiff but I recon we have been the best team in all our away games since & are largely doing it right except for stupid moments at the back. Some players were below par today but for an away side, once Garcia had fucked off, we were pretty good. Same at Chelsea. I doubt rags or Arsenal will play better if they don't get a lead in the game. Score one & we probably score five, but Sunderland defended for their lives & it worked on the day. We tried most avenues of attack & they stopped it.
We beat Utd at our place under Sven with a similar rearguard action to Sunderland today. We defended well then & they defended well today.
My only worry is the daft mistakes there are several every game. Cut those out & we will win 95% of our games imo, fail & we win fuck all.
