Which manager was it that used to say that? I’ve honestly forgotten. No matter.
Regardless, we’re back to the proper stuff after the tosh that is the World cup qualification. It has to be tosh because we were the first country to qualify and given that I don’t think England are any great shakes, I think that says it all about the levels our oppostion were at. I’m really not keen on a competition that just keeps expanding, hence meaning more and more games, all while my interest wains more by the year.
And then, it poses a risk to our internationals of injuries. This time, Ezri Konsa, Matty Cash, Amadou Onana and Lamare Bogarde all suffered injuries of some sort.
Fortunately, it looks like while Onana is 50/50, the other three should be fit and available to play.
The only downside then is that Mings is still definitely out.
So things could definitely have been worse.
As for Leeds, well, that’s easy. They have the whole squad available. Lucky them.
League wise, while we could go forth today, Leeds are languishing in eighteenth and are second lowest scorers (10 goals) after Wolves. Mind you, that’s not saying a lot because we’ve only scored thirteen.
Which all in all leaves me to conclude that this is a game we should win.
I could harp on about how we’re just the sort of club that loves to give struggling clubs a boost, but it just seems a recurring theme these days in my head, which is perhaps unfair of me given that after our very poor start, we’re actually not doing too badly. But with Pool getting spanked by Forest yesterday, this point keeps coming to the fore. The fact that we’ve got a desperately poor Wolves next week won’t allay that thought either.
So, what to think?
Well, I’m always trying to keep my positive head on, as much as it might sometimes seem different, but I can’t get away from thinking that we should definitely win this.
Quite simply, I’m going for a 2-1 victory.
UTV!
That was an opportunity to rattle in 4 or 5 goals. In the end we nearly blew it. A close VAR decision going our way and then one that didn’t. Our substitutes unlike the Leeds game had an adverse effect on our performance. Watkins, Sancho and Guessand we are all saying it are way off the levels we need to be successful. I was hoping Elliott would get some minutes but still no sign of him playing for us ever again. A positive to see Garcia on the bench though. Still a win is the important thing and hopefully no injuries for the Wolves game where we will need to be much better to get a win.
I agree Holte.
We’ve now missed two chances of greatly improving our GD and one of our increasing our points total against much weaker opposition.
GD is important during this stage of the competition.
Second in the league and 4 th in the Premier things are looking rosy
Haa young boys ultras sounds like a paedo fest if I supported them I’d keep it quiet not go around Europe chucking bottles
Shit team
Shit stadium name
Shit name
Gotta disagree. YBs are hilarious!!!!!
It seems we’re actually 3rd. Lyon have a better GD.
Off to Basel Brush next in 2 weeks time.
Nice. Ithink the grandsons are going too. Proper jetsetters they are.
I’ve watched u tube with videos of that disgraceful incident and can conclude bad crowd management but then I’m biased, we do have the state-of-the-art cameras that can see what you have in your hands and can count your change. Are our police and stewards told not to go against violent behaviour? , now I’m convinced the world must think we are a soft touch, bring back the Teddy boys mentality they would sort them out.