So your telling me we didn’t deserve AT LEAST a point from man city?
even the most bias martinez hater surely couldn’t come out with thaT!
We played well I thought but with Bob’s formation I fail to see how we will score enough goals to stay up. If we start with one up front against Birmingham at home in a must win game then he doesn’t deserve any support.
We played well I thought but with Bob’s formation I fail to see how we will score enough goals to stay up. If we start with one up front against Birmingham at home in a must win game then he doesn’t deserve any support.
You and Bobby have a lot in common. He only has one tactic, apparently, and you only have one answer, apparently.
We’re all fooked if that doesn’t work. :scared-eek:
So your telling me we didn’t deserve AT LEAST a point from man city?
even the most bias martinez hater surely couldn’t come out with thaT!
I’ve actually posted on another thread that I thought the team played well on Saturday & deserved at least a point so maybe I should have expanded on my previous statement a little
A team may well have odd games where they don’t get the positive result that their performance deserves but its very much swings & roundabouts & evens itself out in games where they get points that their performance didn’t deserve – For every game like Saturday’s where they came away empty handed there are games like Spurs away where they got 3 points despite being outplayed for most of the game
So if I may alter my statement slightly – in football, over the course of a season, a team gets exactly what they deserve. After 29 games the stats show that Latics are the worst team in the division. If after 38 games Latics lie in 15th place that will be because they were the 15th best team in the division. Likewise if they’re still bottom it’ll be coz they were the worst.
Latics won’t get relegated because they were unlucky
As for “It is just a matter of time before it clicks into place and we get the results our performances deserve” – I’ve been hearing him say the same thing for nearly 2 seasons now & I’m still waiting
yep agree that he has been saying the same thing for awhile.
BUT
i think its clear that on performance alone the last 5-6 matchs we should have alot more points, and we are consistently performing ok or quite well, haven’t had a performance like newcastle/fulham at home for along time which is what ive been used to seeing every other game.
do you also think we would have created more chances against city on saturday playing 442? i think we won the battle in midfield, and created far more chances than them. 442 doesn’t guarantee goals if your strikers cant hit a donkeys arse with a banjo
The only clear cut chance for one of our strikers fell to them when they were playing 4-4-2 & as it came from 2 strikers linking up & playing off each other it would not have come along if they’d still been playing 4-5-1
BUT
I’d agree that the team had had more than enough chances playing 4-5-1 to get somet out of the game.
I’ve said before that I don’t think any formation is inherently better than any other. But that a manager needs to play the system most suited to the players he has at his disposal & needs to be adaptable if things aren’t working out and/or the team needs to get back into the game.
I’m hoping that Bobby’s late switch to 4-4-2 is an indication that he’s finally come to realise that there’s more than 1 way to skin a cat & that we’ll see a bit more of this adaptability. The only problem with when Bobby went 4-4-2 is that he switched N’Zogbia over to the left & it killed his influence on the game.
The other problem was of course that they still didn’t score
I’d agree that performances have been getting better. What’s cost us in recent matches has been poor decision making from individual players be it stupid penalties against Villa, failing to track players against WBA, poor clearances & failing to challenge against Liverpool, schoolboy defending 4 times against United or Al Habsi’s c0ck up on Saturday.
Poor teams & poor players make & keeping making those types of mistakes not unlucky ones – Team’s often don’t have to work hard to score against latics & along with a failure to score in over a third of our matches (again that comes from poor players not unlucky ones) is the team’s downfall
Poor teams & poor players make & keeping making those types of mistakes not unlucky ones – Team’s often don’t have to work hard to score against latics & along with a failure to score in over a third of our matches (again that comes from poor players not unlucky ones) is the team’s downfall
And poor players come from not being able to attract good ones.
This kind of contradicts my last post but we have, or have had, good players but they aren’t used properly or made to play in a system that is alien to them
Either way it doesn’t change the fact that Bobby can talk about being unlucky until he $h!ts gold nuggets out of his @r$e but a combination of poor management, poor tactics, poor decision making (from management & players) & poor players is why Latics are bottom