anyone of sorryIf we look at the start to the season so far we can all agree it is kinda below par. As many of us and the players have mentioned a god start is vital for a title challenge. The opening day fixture against Sheffield Utd for me was very dissapointing. We did'nt play like a side who looked to be going for the title. The second half was a great improvment and a draw was proberly a fair result. I understand people sayin Bramle Lane is a difficult place to go and a newly promted side like Sheffield Utd were well up for it as well as the injuries to two of our defenders. But my arguement here is that Chelsea or Man Utd proberly would have got the win there had the same thing happened to them. Thats not so say there is'nt the quality in our squad beacuase we have the scond best squad in the leauge in all honesty. But we should have grafted out a result. The West Ham game was a great improvment and we scored two worldies but if you were being really critical then you could say Bowyer should have scored near the end. Again I would have realy liked to see us kill the game off at 2-1 West Ham are a class team I agree but when we were ahead we could'nt realy finish it off despite the Brilliant efforts of Kuyt. But what concerend me regarding this game was the amount of chances we gave away but we got the win and we al hoped we would kick off from there. But the loss to Everton was a real kick in the teeth they played well and we shoud have had 2 maybe 3 pens in that game but if you but Chelsea against that Everton side not many would bet on the bitters I certinaly would'nt. We made a couple of indivial errors which cannot be caluculated tactically but I failed to see any sort of co-hesion between Alonso, Sissoko and Gerrard that was so evident the previous season with Stevie Bangin in the goals. I am also aware Alonso has'nt started the season as well as we would have liked, for me the thing to do would maybe be to give Gerrard and Momo a couple of games togther or just find 2 and stick to that as that would help all 3 players. The PSV game was very good and I completly understand the reason for resting Gerrard but on the same merit Sissoko should be rested occansionaly too I know his stamina is amazing but he looked tired to me in the last 2 games and was'nt his usual Brill best. I think Alonso should have started against a fairly weak PSV team and a good preformance may have helped him get back on track. I know this aint the league but I wanted to add it in anyway lol, however the defense was amazing that night. The Chelsea game was maybe our bestpreformance so far and with a bit of luck we may have put away some of the chances Gerrard was maybe unlucky though I would have expected alot of player to finish his 1-1 chance but hey.
After all this baballing the question presents itself are we too far off the leaders to challenge I still dont think so I think the league is still atainable but we have to start winning soon and after the Newcastle game on Wednesday we can no longer sya the season starts here beacuse a win is vital not only for confidance but to show the rest of the Prem we really mean Bussiness also I would like us to win the league just to shove it in that stupid Andy Gray's face what a TW@t he needs a kick in his fat Bluenose. A little easin up on the rotation may also stregthen out title challenge.
YNWA Come on You red men make us proud like we know you can
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