Since the debacle at Ipswich and the switch to a back 3 we have looked a more competent football side. What we have to now do is start beating the side below and around us. We cant rely on results like City and Spurs to keep our progression going. We have to beat the Fulhams, Forests, Sheffield United's, Lutons, etc, or at least in the away games take a point from them.
Concerning how slow we start games. What can we change? The formation is fine. We need to play higher up the pitch
Indeed, one clean sheet this season isn't good enough as we're rarely going to outscore teams if they get 2. If we can tighten things up a bit at the back (starting this coming week hopefully), we'll be fine.
Agreed. I thought he did very well. One of the (quite a few) positives IMHO.
Harsh on RMT - they have settled their strike lol.... ASLEF on the other hand....
Haha **** em all!
It's his back. Seemed to do it twisting somewhere in the second goal. After 15 minutes literally felt like the old joke about the keeper getting back ache from picking the ball out of the net too much! Imagine he's either got a small side strain or caught a nerve. Think he might be OK but to be fair Bentley did pretty well.
Hardly a habit but a good goal for a 48m striker....more please.
Hats off to you and all for going on that journey mate. We may not have scored the Landan cants but out sung by a country mile from what I heard
He never seems to win a header, and he's taller than everyone on the pitch
Spot on, Sir.
That's the problem with these large stadiums, the roof is so high it doesn't keep the atmosphere in. West Ham and Spurs are both the same. But agree they were poor for top of the league.
Yep, second half our support sang pretty much non-stop. Players and staff got a good reception at full time too considering we’d been second best pretty much all game.
Had us to go down before a ball was kicked this season. We've been 'docked' 8 points, missed our best player with injury, lost our 'elite' manager at the worst possible time, sold £100m+ of players and decided to give a sacked PE teacher a second chance.
Precisely......GON has some idea of a containment strategy at the start of the game, but it has been sussed out
I didn’t necessarily mean a target man type, just someone who will make the runs to stretch defenders but will have the strength and touch to make the ball stick when it’s fed up to him too. Just somebody that will wear defenders down for 90 minutes….personally I would love Solanke but no way Bournemouth would sell.
Abso’bloody’lutely!
I'm no doctor but it looked like a back spasm to me (having personally suffered myself from them over the years) so nothing too serious I wouldn't have thought.
I went to the match at the Emirates at the end of last season (which was one of the most feeble performances I can remember from a Wolves team) and also yesterday when we regrouped really well and kept our discipline in the 2nd half. I have much more confidence in this team.
Agree, after 12/13 minutes yesterday I thought here we go again but you’re right we dug in and grew into it. We probably scored too late to really put them under pressure sadly.
