To me most of that game felt a lot like the end of last season, when we had also just lost to the Mancs ( albeit, this year, unluckily imo), and when we basically just lost our will to fight and collapsed over the remaining games.
The fact that this time we (just) managed to turn it round and get the win could be psychologically huge for us because, had we not done so, the league would have been almost dead for us and we could really have been in a bad place with the rest of the league season stretching ahead of us and very little to play for ( and for that to have happened as the result of a pretty awful performance).
That win keeps us in the hunt for a European spot and also, hopefully, signals that, no matter what the situation, we won't just give up the way we did last year.
Whether it was really a case of showing character or not today I think is debatable. There were some strong elements in terms of character and some very weak elements. At the very least though, we've pulled ourselves out of the fire. Had we have thrown the 3 points away there, which it looked like we had, it would have been a massive blow to us I think.
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