Thinking about todays result i started doing a bit a bit of research, and as much as we are missing chances or not creating enough, for me whats gone wrong recently is our defensive play.
Now in past seasons our defence has been rock solid, clean sheets left right and center and was something Rafa and the team were rightly comended for.
Now we started the season well conceeding 2 goals in our first 7 and we won and drew one of those 2 matches we conceded in. (we played 2 CL matches hyypia played instead of agger and we conceded 2 goals one draw on defeat).
However then Agger picked up his injury and things started to go wrong
We then went on to concede 4 in our next 3, dropping 4 points from these matches - 1 win 2 draws, (thats also not included the abysmal performance against besiktas in which we also conceded 2 goals).
We did go on a nice run of 4 prem without conceding won 3 and drew one (the wins against newcastle, fulham and Bolton tho), and our 8-0 trouncing of the toothless besiktas. We leaked 1 against porto but it didn't matter too much as we put 4 past them.
This is now when things started to go to pot:
In our last 7 league matches weve conceded 8 goals, thats over 1 per game, this gave us 2 defeats, 3 draws and 2 wins.
If we'd been playing at the same level as we did at the start of the season and only conceded 2 in 7, instead of our points tally being 9, it might have been 17 putting us right back in the title race.
So my point is that while I admit our performances in certain matches have been **** and we've not been making the most of our chances, if the defense had been at it's usual level and had we not had agger out for so long (lets not forget this is the basis of rafa's football philosophy), we wouldn't be leeking odd goals and 1-1 draws become 1-0 wins, and that is where I think our team has gone wrong recently.
Thankyou any questions
Now in past seasons our defence has been rock solid, clean sheets left right and center and was something Rafa and the team were rightly comended for.
Now we started the season well conceeding 2 goals in our first 7 and we won and drew one of those 2 matches we conceded in. (we played 2 CL matches hyypia played instead of agger and we conceded 2 goals one draw on defeat).
However then Agger picked up his injury and things started to go wrong
We then went on to concede 4 in our next 3, dropping 4 points from these matches - 1 win 2 draws, (thats also not included the abysmal performance against besiktas in which we also conceded 2 goals).
We did go on a nice run of 4 prem without conceding won 3 and drew one (the wins against newcastle, fulham and Bolton tho), and our 8-0 trouncing of the toothless besiktas. We leaked 1 against porto but it didn't matter too much as we put 4 past them.
This is now when things started to go to pot:
In our last 7 league matches weve conceded 8 goals, thats over 1 per game, this gave us 2 defeats, 3 draws and 2 wins.
If we'd been playing at the same level as we did at the start of the season and only conceded 2 in 7, instead of our points tally being 9, it might have been 17 putting us right back in the title race.
So my point is that while I admit our performances in certain matches have been **** and we've not been making the most of our chances, if the defense had been at it's usual level and had we not had agger out for so long (lets not forget this is the basis of rafa's football philosophy), we wouldn't be leeking odd goals and 1-1 draws become 1-0 wins, and that is where I think our team has gone wrong recently.
Thankyou any questions
Bring Back Pako
Oh dear
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