As has been said a million and one times before, by and large it's a style we have an issue with, notably teams sitting deep and putting 10 men behind the ball, be that by flooding the midfield or filling the back line. By and large the teams towards the bottom of the league employ that style, hence the struggle. We lost to Huddersfield twice because on neither occasion could we cope with their in your face style and closing down of space in their half, should have been able to but couldn't. That's why we lost not because of their league position.
Hopefully Cardiff is the start of Nuno recognising and fixing that.
That I can completely agree with. Disimissing it as bollocks , however will get a response. I just took the top 6 and bottom six as they stood. I could not go further as we are 7th and would not have wanted too as it misses the point.
We know we have the best record against the top 6/ sky 6 big six of any team outside of them thats not in dispute or question. Lets look at those teams we compete with for 7th then against the bottom 6 today of Cardiff, Huddersfield, Fulham, Brighton, Southampton and Burnley.(you are pretty much where you should be in the table after this many games)
Watford- Against these 6 currently their record is 5-3-0 so 18 points
Bournemouth- 5-1-3 Losses to Burnley Cardiff and Brighton and thats despite Bournemouth being in dog shit form.16 points
Leicester 6-3-1 and they sacked Puel! 21 points
West Ham- 6-2-3 20 points
Palace 5-2-3 they were doubled by Brighton- 17 points
Us 3-1-4 10 points
some people should stop pissing on my head and telling me its raining.
Now lets put it to bed. The facts speak for themselves. Its the only thing that is obvious that we should look to improve on. Of course we will lose games. The best in the world lose games. We should , however look to improve on those performances and more points in the return games that we have against Burnley, Southampton,Fulham and Brighton to improve our current record would demonstrate that .
