falkirk goon wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 6:03 pmNext up after tonights bottle job against the mancs it's this shower of filthy bastarts at ours.We don't do bad results in isolation and I expect dropped points hereout of the title v Brighton out of the carabao v the barcodes out of the cup v the 10 man mancs..I think this will be 1-1 or 1-2 if we can score from a set piece.
Read a stat the other day that no top half time has done as many runs of 3 games without a win in last 3 seasons as we have - apparently on SIX different occasions we have had runs with no win in three games, and that is woeful for a team supposedly challenging for the title. Of course it backs up the theory that when the wheels come off for us, they completely come off - citeeh might have a blip here or there, but rarely will it be for 3 games, and maybe it blows holes in the argument that a team needs to be almost perfect to beat citeeh to the league
Like others have said, I too have never been as flat before a north london derby, and I usually am hyped up like a lunatic before these games - the state that this team is in now is over-riding the significance of any individual result, and like I said on a different thread, only the signing of a top quality striker will lift the fans and the players right now
Personally I would play calafiori at left back if fit - porro likes bombing down their right and if lewis-skelly starts drifting into the middle, then we will get raped down that wing and that will be on arteta. I would also play martinelli in the 9 tonight, partially to take havertz out of the firing line, partially cos havertz is shit anyway, but also because martinelli gives us the runs in behind that neither havertz nor jesus do. I'm wondering too at what stage lewis-skelly is going to get a chance in midfield as it is his natural position - again it isnt as though rice, partey, merino or jorginho have been setting the world alight in there, and fcuk it I'd rather give a young lad with energy a chance to stake a claim rather than looking at slow paced plodders strolling around
