SlowDownDerek
UTC Legend
Don’t remember him saying that. Just that we had a very good spell in the match which is true. Nobodies deluding themselves here, the performances have been far from perfect. We are having long spells in matches where we don’t look like creating anything at all, but it’s okay to acknowledge that we are also having spells in which we are looking very good as well. Interestingly in the XG table we are seventh in terms of the position we should (take the use of the word should with a pinch of salt) be in given our XG for and against. Not perfect by any means, but something to build on at least. We lost comfortably our best player (in terms of natural ability) from last season as well as our player of the season (Begovic) and our best performing centre back in CCV, not to mention our best creative midfielder hasn’t been available yet. A lot of new faces have come in and young players integrated into the first team, under the circumstances I think we’ve done okay up until this point. Over time we do need to start looking more threatening over more extended periods though.
You keep banging on about losing Begovic as if we're loads weaker without him but you never answered the question. Which back five is better? Last year's or this?