That is the biggest load of bullshit ever quoted in the history of quotes. Since when has any Football team in the game's entire history won anything going through a season grinding out 0-0 draws?
Nobody said you win things with 0-0 draws. The point was if you don't have a good defence, you're going to struggle to win titles
Football is a simple sport. You win your game by scoring more goals than the side you're playing. You build successful teams from the front, not the back. We lack the ability to score. When we concede we can't get back into the game because we can't score. When a team shuts up shop, we can't win the game because we can't score.
So don't concede. I also believe you build a team from the back first not the front. As they say, if you can't win games the next best thing is don't lose them.
Our goal difference is -2 and we're languishing in 8th place pending results of other games today.
Exactly. We've scored 22 goals but let in 24 goals. You can win titles winning 1-0 but you don't win them winning 5-3 and 6-3 because it means you've obviously got a problem in defence and you'll get found out.
All our problems start and finish by our inability to score. Not our inability to defend.
I think our problem is we're not scoring and we're conceding, but that's just detail. Thing is, we once one the league title on the strength of a defence that
only conceded 18 goals a 42 game season. Chelsea won the league on the strength of
conceding only 16 goals in a 38 league season. We failed to win the league with Suarez who scored 31 goals on his own, and despite us scoring 101 goals. Why? Because we let in 51.
3-5 away to Stoke, 3-6 away to Cardiff. We lost that league due to our inability to defend not because we couldn't score. We were scoring for fun but we were also leaking goals for fun too. I remember Newcastle Utd under Kevin Keegan. A really exciting team to watch, they played attacking football and scored a good few goals as a result. They won nothng though, because they didn't have much of a defence. And that was in a period when George Graham was at Arsenal, they were called boring, but they also won the odd title here and there.
At this same stage of the 2013/14 season we had conceded four more goals than we have now but sat in 4th place because we'd scored thirty three more goals. We came second that season having conceded less goals than last season were we finished 6th. Lack of goals is our problem and it needs fixing now.
We conceded 51 goals that's why we lost the league title.
I'm not saying you don't need to score goals mate, obviously you do. I'm just saying you need a good defence too. Because if you don't have one, then the other team who also scores lots of goals will beat you all the time because they have a better defence than you. In this example, that was Man City a few seasons ago.
I think almost anyone would tell you we lost that title due to our leaky defence. The Italians had a lot of club success on the back of 1-0 wins during the 80s and 90s and I think they also won a world cup too with the same mentality. Not sure of the exact details but the sentiments are correct.