Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Fair do's.
We (many of us) are looking at similar glasses with a similar amount of water in.
We're just looking at the very differently.
I don't believe those that think (thought) the glass was empty have any credibility.
The same for those that think the glass run'th over.
Irrespective of the score the Chelsea game was 'the' game.
40+ years of watching the Albion told me their second goal was coming in the 79th minute.
It didn't.
The right substitutions were made at the right time (not hindsight) and the team got their goal.
We differ in that I don't believe many of the opposition teams in that run could have laid a glove on the team that played in the last two and a half games (2nd half v Brentford notwithstanding)
but that's Coolio!
On your last point I agree, but mainly because everything was there in that poor run other than believing we could score. Now we seem to have realised that, and my feeling is we could repeat say Arsenal, Leeds and Newcastle minute for minute in performance terms and we’d be taking at least 2 of the many chances - but that is my point really, they weren’t performances to feel we were in any kind of trouble, they were performances that just needed us to believe in ourselves in front of goal.
And so suddenly from Maupay missing tap-ins, he’s scoring worldies and his game all round has just flourished, Trossard remembered he is allowed to hit the target, and now that juice has infected MacA and Dan Burn. Now it’s hypothetical as I can’t know, but our management of Maupay and MacA appears to have reaped results. Both taken out of the firing line, both perhaps shown the weight of the world isn’t on their shoulders and this team can play without them, and they’re both back and who wouldn’t have them as first names on the team sheet right now?
Just need someone to pass the magic juice to Lallana now!