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At home, playing bottom team, which hasn't scored a goal in the Prem this season
"Fortress Turf" looked more like a little ant hill.
Passing was a dirty word; almost as dirty as stringing three passes together.
We lost all 50-50 balls.
We won only because of the Witches of Pendle Hill's 405th (just passed) anniversary.
Must be even more fun being a Palace supporter?
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We're in the Premier League - heeler....we could play a good few games like that and potentially finish the season halfway up the table.
:D
I think - we played to their weakness...let them come at us and do what we do best - numbers back and defend. Others of recent have had the worse of the game against Palace also....but managed five goals (3 & 2) between them - I suppose it's easy after the game to say - we should have seen a lot more of the ball - pressured more - played a neater game than we did etc - it's true....but that could have been our downfall - as for me - they were wide open at their end on many occassions - and we still couldn't find the space or make a movement of decent quality from our attacks - times we tried the'd come to nothing, ball would end up passed back into our end - so did we just decide not to bother committing men forward - feeling that they were more likely to score on the break - I dont know... though do know that even with a win - I didn't expect to see much more from the game than what was.
Cheers.
;D
Bad day at the office and we are sitting seventh in the EPL? :confused:
That is nearly the worse I have seen us in the last three seasons but we still won...
http://www.clarets-mad.co.uk/clarets...-ugly/9090239/
If we play that bad every week and win- I will take that.
They only lost 1-0 at Anfield and Benteke blazed one over the bar though they had 28% possession there and parked the bus.
If we repeat that performance at Anfield we will get slaughtered. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by In Dyche We Trust
I'm sure that's worth a Barton bet.Quote:
Originally Posted by In Dyche We Trust
One that never comes off.
No, we are highly unlikely to ever play as badly as that and still win--this was a once-in-a-lifetime result.
I think the Palace player's missed header right in front of goal was all our Christmases in one.
Whatever went on in the collective Burnley players' heads had little to do with football.
It's almost like Barton had personally given Burnley players odds of 30/1 against Palace scoring a goal and everyone in the team was on it.
I hope that was the case because the alternative of total team incompetence to play any kind of known football brand will haunt me until the next game.
I don't like singling players out when the whole team was off the boil, but I have to say that Brady was very disappointing with his crosses and corners.
Strange as it may seem, I don't think that the early goal helped us at all --except that it decided the game!
We had two very good chances shortly after that which, had we put away would have seen us three up after just over quarter of an hour, however, that was not to be. In the first half we got some good crosses in but apart from the header that Sam put wide (should have scored) nobody got on the end of them which was criminal.
Cabaye ran the show and always found space and was their main creator, however, we defended well and came away with the win.
Strange that out first two home games this season have almost mirrored the first two of last season.
Should have beaten Swansea last season and lost 0-1, should have beaten West Brom and lost 0-1.
Won against Liverpool 2-0 although the statistics showed possession 20% : shots 3: on target 2: corners 1:
Liverpool possession 80%: shots 26: on target 5: corners 12:
Against Palace possession 35% shots 4: on target 2: corners 3:
Palace possession 65%: shots 23: on target 5: corners 13.
Both managers moaned about the fact that they should have won, couldn't believe etc., etc., however, the bottom line is that, if you don't score the goals --you won't win.
We suffered against West Brom and there will be other games when the same thing will happen and that is football.
So blueheeler, the bottom line is that nobody can guarantee anything when watching football, just go along with what is offered and don't over-analyse because it won't change the result.We know we can play better than we did yesterday, however, there is no guarantee that we will win when we do so. Remain optimistic, after all, we have 7 points from 4 games and are only 3 points behind the league leaders! ;D
Gudmundsson and Defour were total bobbins too!Quote:
Originally Posted by nutsinmay