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Originally Posted by sfk7
I don’t agree with you. In my opinion this is a world of difference from all the matches that we have played this season, apart from Chelsea of course. Can you even imagine the scoreline if we played like how we played against Newcastle?
Yes they noticeably tired towards the end. But at least there is spirit
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Spirit is good I agree, but the application is wrong.
We scored, played defending, hoping to hold out and we draw.
Soak and strike is ok if your midfield and defence is very very strong.
Look at the bench, there is no midfield to take over the tired legs of SM, Fred, AP.
James already knocked so many times and looked very very tired, but we replaced Rashford instead.
We draw games in the 2nd half, even though OGS said our fitness improved?
Wolves, Arsenal.....we were leading going into 1/2 time, but we never finished them off.
End of the day, we knew they will come at us, but we did not go and get the 2nd cushion goal we needed. And when they scored, we suddenly looked like the ones that will concede the 2nd goal.
Don't get me wrong, this game is played in the right attitude, but come next week when we play Norwich, can we play like that again?