- Apr 16, 2005
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This side is seriously lacking in leadership on the pitch. Also with our first choice 11 starting games, we've got the quality to beat anyone. But as soon as we lose a couple of them to injury, the whole playing system and belief system breaks down. It's amazing how up and down their confidence goes throughout the season! First they can't score goals, then they can, now they can't again...
We need to strengthen this squad and bring in a natural leader, not to mention another recognised striker. Hopefully this side will wake up before we go out of both cup comps and finish outside of the top four! Fingers crossed
We sure as hell need to quickly learn to deal with playing on a big pitch because if we don't we will find ourselves really up against it next week at Wembley and it's a fact that we can't escape that the semis and the final of the FA Cup are also played at Wembley and then there's the not so small matter of us almost certainly playing all of our home games there next season.Good teams are built on solid foundations. We're missing half of our first choice defence and its making the players in front of them nervous. Once Jan and Rose are back in I think things will be dramatically different.
What we do need to do, however, is massively improve our away performances. Whenever we play on a big pitch we seem to struggle to close the space down.
Fulham is a nice compact pitch and hopefully that will be a chance for us to find some momentum before our next league game.
We sure as hell need to quickly learn to deal with playing on a big pitch because if we don't we will find ourselves really up against it next week at Wembley and it's a fact that we can't escape that the semis and the final of the FA Cup are also played at Wembley and then there's the not so small matter of us almost certainly playing all of our home games there next season.
What are we planning to do, reduce the size of the pitch dimensions at Wembley next season ?
We have an identical pitch with the same dimensions as the Wembley pitch at our training ground, it's high time we started intensive sessions on dealing with it.
Now would be the time for Lamela to get healthy!
A prolonged "bad period"? I thought that could only happen once a month.
No, we're in doo doo, because he is very important. He does a lot of stuff that isn't spectacular, but the main thing is that he maintains the press.I don't want this comnent to reflect ill on Lamela but if this team is relying on Lamela for us to be successful then we are in deep doo-doo.