Originally Posted by
pass_and_move
Agree that game definitely sunk our spirit but it dint relegate us in my opinion. As I said in the original post, the season's over 38 games. Tha looks at points we threw away when we weren't able to see a game art- Wednesday away, Leeds away, Blackburn away, Newcastle away, Coventry away, Spurs at ooam, Leeds at ooam- costly points. Teams at the top score late goals to win games as regular as we conceded them to lose games, it's not because of good luck or bad luck, it's because teams at the bottom have fundamental deficiencies and teams at the top have persistence & perseverance.
We let far too many goals in and defended woefully at times. However, I can understand why that happened because Wilson played offensively but the opposition just had too much quality and we were too sloppy at the end of the day. By the time we got our act together mid-season there was too much ground to make up.
When I think back to that first half (forget the 2nd aif) against liverpool when it was 11 versus 11 we were by far the better team, could have been at least 2 goals up but we went in level at 1-1 thanks to gifting them a sloppy and undeserved goal. Kind of sums it up