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Nah I'm well chuffed. I mean, I still think we've cocked up one too many times, but we're away again on Thursday so I have hope.
I said earlier that I can take us being able to do this, it's a good thing. My issue is it's still all we can do. And some of the issues we see aren't just on the players - or your man crush. But people like to absolve Carlo of any blame, so it's a weird one.
I expect our players to be able to pass to each other in home games and I can't not lay some of that blame on the manager. Our away results are fantastic, but the performances are very marginal - it's enough for now like, but it's not really the way to build going forward.
Its not all we can do is it though? We outplayed Spurs twice at home recently and if Holgate and Keane could concentrate properly we’d have won both. We outplayed Palace at home and should have won that easily if the strikers had finished chances. We came back from two down against United away and then equalised a third time. We came back twice from being down at home against Liverpool, came from behind against West Brom at home.
This is all the same group of players under Ancelotti. There’s just an agenda being peddled that we’re crap every single game and we can only play one way, and when we win it’s not enough because it’s about performances but when we don’t win the performance is irrelevant all of a sudden.
There’s plenty to legitimately criticise Carlo for this season. I don’t like his 5 at the back, I don’t like the constant rotation, he didn’t value anything from King Bernard Tosun Kean Gordon Nkonkou, he’s put far too much faith in Siggurdson Davies Keane Coleman, he indulged Richarlison playing upfront when we actually had a balanced team with him on the left, he’s played players when they’re not fit, he’s misled fans on injury returns, he’s made subs too late sometimes.
What becomes annoying though is this constant peddling of this notion that our football is rubbish, it’s worse than Allardyce’s, it’s the worst in the league, we can’t attack, we can’t defend, every other team plays to a dynamic philosophy, we’ve played the exact same way all season, we’re not getting the most out of the players we have (as though Davies Gomes Siggurdson are somehow better than challenging for Europe). Whatever the score, whatever the performance it’s the same tired agenda being pushed. We could have hit Palace for four or five, we took the game to Spurs after falling behind and outplayed them. Yet people just ignored that and made out it was the same as the Newcastle or Fulham performances. We’ve beaten Arsenal and West Ham away in succession and again it’s dubbed as fortuitous, can’t be sustained, edged it. Its tedious.
