hakam
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Post by hakam on Nov 2, 2015 11:31:30 GMT
I'm getting seriously annoyed with the LVG out comments, especially coming from people that are not that stupid. Completely ignoring the fact that we have the least goals conceded in the league along with Arsenal and Tottenham and it's only when it comes to goals scored that we look simply terrible - 8 place with Norwich. There have been 3 seasons where we have scored less goals than our 15 now - 12 goals in 92/93, 14 in 02/03 and 11 in 04/05. In two out of these three we won the title. Going into some panic mode after just 11 games is ridiculous. I get that we're playing boring football, but the situation would have been completely different if we were scoring. Nobody is expecting us to set the world alight with magical football against Crystal Palace, but we should be grinding out results in games like this. So figure this shit out, play Martial up top and get scoring - we should be fine I agree. But in the years you mentioned it wasn't because of lack of trying to score. An example>>> Norwich played Man City in the Etihad a few days ago. I watched the game and I must admit that although they lost, they caused havoc for the City defence. Compare this to our game vs City at Old Trafford. We had one shot on target vs Crystal Palace in 90 minutes. The same team were thrashed by City a couple of days earlier. Why? Why can't we play OUR game? We have always been an attacking team, that's why we sometimes lost to lowly opposition. It really doesn't matter wheter we lost the odd game, we were entertaining... now we're boring to watch.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2015 11:57:01 GMT
All football matches are different. We didn't create much against City because they didn't attack either. They sat back and made it difficult for us. At home to Norwich they attacked which gave Norwich more space to create chances. Also City may have thrashed palace in the cup but in the league at Selhurst park they scored a late goal to beat them 1-0 in what was supposedly a very even game.
That's no excuse for our lack of impetus though. To score goals and win matches you have to attack. Van Gaal knows this, he's said as much himself in the past in game where we haven't scored that the side lacked risk. So I'm sure he's working hard to rectify the problem. I'll be gobsmacked if we don't see Martial back at #9 either tomorrow or at the weekend.
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