If that was aimed at me, I wasnât moaning, I was merely saying today was an opportunity to improve our goal difference, more for the boost it would give us, confidence wise than anything else. Glad for the 3 points and the clean sheet, but we made it much harder than it needed to be.
Top again, letâs hope Utd get the win.
Not at all aimed at you, mate. Have to admit I hadn't even seen your post until you quoted me. It's just a general observation. Today was indeed an opportunity to improve our goal difference, but it's annoying that people just expect us to smash teams left, right and center because we did it a few times during the second half of last season and because City is doing it for fun. We don't have the squad, because of injuries, to go out every game and press the living hell out of every team. We have to be a bit more pragmatic in our approach right now.
We now made it to the next international break, right up there with Chelsea and City. After that, we will have more options with Henderson and Keita coming back and I'm sure we'll see our press be a bit more present during games than we do right now.
People need to realize that given the amount of injuries we've had, certainly in midfield, combined with the amount of games we've had to play against top-level opposition, it really wasn't about "improving goal difference" or "gaining confidence", it was about getting the points on the board and getting our players back on the pitch without running our fit players into the ground because our fans have these ridiculous expectations.
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