Originally Posted by
OldWhiteTaff
I said before this game I wasn't looking forward to it, and wasn't expecting to enjoy it much, and so it proved. Lets be honest we were quite lucky to escape with a point, even though Roberts had a couple of decent chances 2nd half. But they had a couple of even better ones. So i guess a point gained rather than 2 lost. However, if we play like that, (and how we played against Boro), against Preston and Brum then we're not going to be ripping them apart either. Perhaps I'm being a bit negative given we're still top, but we seem to have lost some of the zip and cut and thrust we showed in the early games - and I'm not convinced it's just down to the injuries. It's almost as if in the early games we played with a freedom born of relatively few expectations and little pressure, but now we're top and everyone's going on about how good we are the players have gone back into their shells a bit, and seem less confident both in their passing and their movement. I hope I'm wrong and that Bielsa can lift them back into the early season form, but at the moment our performances leave me feeling more like 'phew we scraped through that one' rather than 'great performance we spanked them', and that's too reminiscent of last season against Ipswich and Brum, just before the wheels came off.............