I don't recognise these people, are they friends of Houghton?
It’s still hurting my eyes and nobody else seems bothered
What was fortunate about Utd? Offside is offside.
The thing is Wolves aren't bad. Yes, they are struggling but I don't think they'll rock up and park the bus. They'll have a go but defensively they're not so good so hopefully we can exploit them.
All tree have had lukky maches.
This, the way I see it is that Hurtzball means that we get some quick attacks that can open up defences. This means we will always get goals and appear lucky. Newcastle is a good example of this.
6 defeats in a row followed by 0-0 against Norwich; 7 games, one point and only goal was scored by Dunk. Short memory - it was post Covid in Feb/Mar 22.
Indeed 40% possession and 3 points away at Newcastle who hadn’t lost.a home game since January very satisfying.
I’ve always said Caceido got him the Chelsea job not his managerial skills. Finally we stopped getting overrun in midfield.
So far we have beaten Man U, Spurs, and Newcastle, drawn against Arsenal and only lost to Chelsea (from which FH clearly made changes as a result). Games we would normally expect to win and historically we tend to lose we have won or drawn. It can't all be down to luck. From the top down we have a fantastically run club and FH is yet another amazing signing. Possession doesn't win games, of all the teams in the PL that should be glaringly obvious to us. As you said Hurzeler has the team digging in and supporting each other, we have centre-backs taking shots and forwards defending. Just because a player gets into a scoring position doesn't mean it was luck that they didn't score, if this was the case scorelines would be much much higher. I think what we are seeing is the exact opposite of what the pundits were worried about. We have a young manager who rather than dictate, has brought the squad together and they are all working on his ideas together.
Agreed but even in the Chelsea game we were better and more solid in the second half so he tweaked things during the game to improve us then. I was really worried at half time but we definitely got better. Really liked his response after that game too.
Good post. And it’s worth reminding people that this young coach has only lost ONCE since he joined us, in friendlies, EPL and cup games, and that was to Chelsea away.
Well 9 wins out of 38 between 2019 and 2021 would suggest my memory isn’t that short…..
Thought we were equally appalling, just different problems.