The season so far - trying to get some perspective

vendredi 26 décembre 2014

It’s difficult to find a sense of perspective after a game like yesterday’s, but I thought I’d look back to see how we’ve stood up across the full 18 games to date. Here’s my summary:



Arsenal L – conceded a late goal, but probably didn’t deserve the point

West Ham L – abject performance

Newcastle D – scored a late, late equaliser, but a defeat would have been an injustice

Burnley D – couldn’t find a goal, Speroni’s late penalty save got us the draw

Everton W – probably the only game this season we have been a bit lucky with the goals, albeit in a very good performance

Leicester W – a deserved win

Hull L – awful second half cost us

Chelsea L – well beaten, but could it have been different if we had been given the early penalty?

West Brom D – a game we should have won

Sunderland L – pretty even up to 79 mins, but they went on to win it

Man Utd L – not at the races at all

Liverpool W – best performance of the season

Swansea D – we came back to get a deserved point

Aston Villa L – we huffed and puffed but couldn’t find a goal

Spurs D – we were by far the better team and deserved to win

Stoke D – they got a somewhat fortunate equaliser, just huff and puff thereafter

Man City L – played well first half, blown away second half

Southampton L – very poor



I look through that and I count:



4 matches that we got nothing out of and we were never realistically likely to (Arsenal, Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea)

3 really poor performances (West Ham, Hull (second half), Southampton)

4 matches where we got the points we deserved (Newcastle, Leicester, Liverpool, Swansea)



Then



4 homes matches where we weren’t a million miles off – and in which a decent centre forward would have made all the difference – but ultimately only accumulated two points (Burnley, Sunderland, Villa, Stoke)

2 games where we were unlucky to come away with only a draw (West Brom, Spurs)

1 game where we were perhaps a bit lucky to win (or maybe not, I can’t decide) (Everton)



That adds up to 15 points. But I think you could argue that the performances might have been worth more like 16-20 points?



This, of course, doesn’t change the fact that we can all see some quite alarming problems developing all across the pitch. But perhaps it means that it isn’t completely impossible to turn things around?




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