| Looking at the results so far this season 13:48 - Apr 2 with 509 views | IPSWICHFANITFC |
Tried to give a fair assessment of the season so far as we approach the final block of games.
Games we were outclassed and went on to lose:
- Liverpool home (the 2nd half)
- Man City away
- Everton home*
- Newcastle home
- Man City home
- Liverpool away
- Forest home
*On the Everton game, I thought they did all the basics really well and were much better than us on the day. Not necessarily outclassed technically, but they did the basics very well
To summarise - Everton aside, the rest of these are the current top 6 in the PL and there's no shame in being outclassed.
Games we were poor
- West Ham away
- Crystal Palace home
- Brighton home
- Southampton home
- Man United away (2nd half)
To summarise - I don't think we did enough in these games to win / we were poor on the day / it ended up being another opportunity we didn't take control of
Games where fine margins have gone against us:
- Brentford away - late goal against us
- Leicester home - late goal against us
- Bournemouth home - late goal against us
- Fulham away - late goal against us
- Southampton home - late goal against us (we didn't do enough to win regardless)
- Palace away - late ish goal against us
To summarise - All evenly contested games where we've just conceded a late goal and dropped points. It's football, but the points gained would've put us in a better position going into the final block of games.
The rest where we've rightly deserved something or rode our luck and been on the fortunate side of the fine margins:
- Fulham home
- Brighton away (rode our luck with their poor finishing)
- Villa home (performance wise we were brilliant, but I think Morsy was lucky not to be sent off)
- Spurs away (best performance of the season for me)
- Wolves away
- Chelsea home (deserved win, would have been annoyed if the Delap penalty was given against us)
- Fulham away
- Villa away (was almost a perfect away result getting the goal with 10 men, superb Palmer save at the death)
To summarise - Some brilliant performances in all of these games, individually or collectively as a team and came away from these games definitely deserving of all 3 points or at least, a share of the points.
Wasn't sure where to put Arsenal away - not outclassed as we were always in the game based on the scoreline, didn't really fall on the wrong side of fine margins as they controlled the game well but also didn't deserve a point or more. Just one of these odd games which is hard to categorise.
I think there's a lot to be pleased with, despite the reality of relegation kicking in for many now. We always had a tough job on our hands but ultimately, we've fallen short because of a lack of quality, but there's games where you look back and appreciate the other team and their class, but there will always be those 'what if' moments where we let ourselves down late on.
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| Looking at the results so far this season on 13:59 - Apr 2 with 438 views | exeterblue10 |
Agree with all of that but I'd add Spurs home to the first category and Man U home to the fine margins going against us category (Onana making two worldie saves) |  | | |
| Looking at the results so far this season on 15:23 - Apr 2 with 334 views | IPSWICHFANITFC |
| Looking at the results so far this season on 13:59 - Apr 2 by exeterblue10 |
Agree with all of that but I'd add Spurs home to the first category and Man U home to the fine margins going against us category (Onana making two worldie saves) |
I felt with the Spurs game that we could've been ahead early on, probably by a couple of goals. I'm sure Delap could've had a couple. Also, if Woolfenden's was on for the offside goal and we get that to 2-2, we probably could've gone and got something from it. In the end, we fell apart defensively.
Agree on the Man U home game - aside from the early Rashford goal, I don't think we were troubled much and Onana did make big saves. | |
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