So you think following on from the Mancs and West Ham, it’s ok to manage 1 win?! The stats you say back it up show we failed to beat Carlisle in 120mins, failed to beat Sion, failed to beat Norwich, failed to beat Everton and failed to beat Bordeaux. 1 scraped win vs Villa is a team bang out of form. A team could go unbeaten all season, finish with 38 points and still get relegated, but you’re essentially saying you can justify that as decent because it’s 38 games unbeaten. So I’d go careful with what “stats” you are using.
Resemble the Woy reign as in sh*t results, the performances getting worse, everyone looking shot of all confidence. BR shouldn’t have even made it into that season, he should have been given the boot immediately after the 6-1 smashing that Stoke gave us.
I didn't go through the nuances of the 6 game unbeaten run before the change, just as I didn't of the 6 game unbeaten run after it.
The "scraped win against Villa" was our first at home against them in 5 seasons. That season had a very difficult start, away to Stoke first, an away derby, away to Arsenal and the mancs in the first 2 months. Not to mention trips to Chelsea and City around the corner. We lost just one of them, we were also top of the table at one point, so the idea put out there that it resembled the Hodgson era, is just not correct.
We hadn't been beaten by a score like that in 50 years mate.
Even so, the game was still meaningless, a mere footnote in a season where we reached 2 cup semi finals.
We've also lost by a 5 goal margin at City since, but we didn't sack Klopp for it, nor should we. Just as with the Stoke result, we had reasons to explain why, and it's also a mere footnote in a season where we reached another cup final.
Usually big defeats are a one off with specific reasons behind it, not a sign of panic, chaos, and the apocalypse is nigh.
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