quattro
Well-Known Member
wanted to win the game for obvious reasons, but the performance we showed against them was clearly a step forward. people on here rave on postmortem of our suicidal tendencies in matches against chelski where we get ripped to shreds for dropping the ball once or twice... it didn't happen and didn't look like happening at all yesterday. i think we are still adapting to this kind of style against this kind of opponent, and on evidence of yesterday's match, we are not far off from getting maximum points from games like these, against opponents like that. we matched them for industry, we matched them for grit and we did create chances.
there was none of the naivete in our past defeats to them on show here. sure we could've thrown something to score, and we did but it just didn't work out. the silver lining here is that we CAN still improve on this. looking at chelsea... well that is all that they have. efficient, solid defence, and against bigger teams, the ability to pick them apart for mistakes. we can still improve, while i honestly believe that that is as "good" as chelsea will ever be. that is enough for them to win the league this year, but given how they are set up, i dont know if there is any way for them to actually improve.
there was none of the naivete in our past defeats to them on show here. sure we could've thrown something to score, and we did but it just didn't work out. the silver lining here is that we CAN still improve on this. looking at chelsea... well that is all that they have. efficient, solid defence, and against bigger teams, the ability to pick them apart for mistakes. we can still improve, while i honestly believe that that is as "good" as chelsea will ever be. that is enough for them to win the league this year, but given how they are set up, i dont know if there is any way for them to actually improve.