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That is not called "we played well". A football match is a game of 2 halves. What you are referring to is blips here and there without any consistency.We played well against Palace this season at home. Especially in the first half.
That is not called "we played well". A football match is a game of 2 halves. What you are referring to is blips here and there without any consistency.
We played well against Burnley at home this season but again here and there.
We played well before Jan 2019, Seasons 2015/16/17/18 and even before that. We have been playing badly since Jan 2019.
We did start 2018/19 season extremely well upto December 2018, our points tally was the best since 1960/61 season, but from Jan 2019 to date is been very poor.Well in that case, I haven't seen us play well since 2017.
3 years ago.
We did start 2018/19 season extremely well upto December 2018, our points tally was the best since 1960/61 season, but from Jan 2019 to date is been very poor.
Week 18:
Premier League standings (games, points, goal difference):
1. Liverpool: 18, 48, 32
2. Manchester City: 18, 44, 37
3. Spurs: 18, 42, 19
4. Chelsea: 18, 37, 20
5. Woolwich: 18, 37, 16
6. Manchester United: 18, 29, 4
We were only 6 points behind P1. But we just made P4 at the end of the season, we were lucky because other teams didn't take advantage of our poor run in the second half. It was the time when Poch was sulking about lack of signings and stadium completion date. We had same squad minus Dembele.
Geniune question for everyone , when was the last time do you think we played well ?
The last game I can remember was probably Everton 2-6 Tottenham or Tottenham 3-1 Chelsea last season . A lot of people will refer back to last season's UCL games but I felt we were quite lucky , especially against Dortmund who we somehow beat 4-0 on aggregate when in both legs they were probably better than us and we had some very good defending and goalkeeping to thank for that aggregate score.
The times when we've beat teams for example 4-0 , we beat them 4-0 but we don't exactly dominate them , take the Crystal Palace game in September while we beat them 4-0 , they actually had more Shots on target on us . To look even closer take a look at the Burnley game where we beat them 5-0 , Burnley actually had more possession than us and we didn't even look particularly amazing going forward just very clinical.
Now maybe the problem is my perception of good football. For me I enjoy watching football when our team creates a lot of chances and dominates the other team , a bit like what City do week in week out although obviously we won't ever reach that level. For me the pressing was also key to this domination. So many times in 15/16 and 16/17 we'd press for the ball , win it back in the final 3rd and create a good chance. Ever since that started to dissapear in 17/18 , our style of play has become quite boring . Noticably we've started to try and do long-ball football a bit more , or we're just passing it around the back without any idea of what to do with it.
Even when we played Norwich , while we were better than them we weren't much better than them , and you wouldn't have known that we were UCL finalists and they were in the bottom 3 at the time.
I suppose my question is well a) When was the last time we played well? and b) Do you agree with my perception of what a good style of play is [Paragraph above].
We had a great first half of the 2018/19 season in terms of points but the actual performances were sending us major warning signs of what was to come
The only games I can recall us looking good in were the Chelsea , Everton and Bournemouth games around Christmas time and it basically all came crashing down soon after that