Another. Two. Goals. From. Outside. The. Box.
OK, we won and three points were what mattered this evening, but every one of the problems in attack are still present and correct. We cannot play our way through or behind organised defences because our build-up is too slow and our movement off the ball is too pedestrian. Another 348 attempted through balls bounced off defenders. Another 463 crosses were delayed until everyone was marked. Unless we can hammer one in from 20m, which fortunately we often can, we cannot score.
Surprisingly, Fulham's midfield confronted and often dominated Sandro and Capoue - what's that about? We seemed to have more of the ball with a makeshift midfield consisting of Lennon, Chadli, Holtby,Townsend and Paulinho than we had when we had a hard-tackling double pivot.
Nothing has been proven. We still haven't worked out how to solve the problems. At least we won. Chiriches' reputation takes another step forward. Lennon demonstrates again that he has to play on the right. Lamela demonstrates again that he needs to get stronger. And we have the best goalkeeper in the league.
Disagree with the sentiment of the first paragraph. We made some great chances inside the box today, but our finishing was simply appalling. Just because we scored from shots outside doesn't mean we didn't have chances inside today.
The most pleasing thing for me is that our high line seems to have dropped back somewhat. It's such a risky strategy in a really pacy league, and it seems that AVB is learning...