- Mar 7, 2005
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Disagree. Points mean prizes, and we'll be gelling to a greater or lesser degree over the entire remainder of the season in any case. A dominating performance and 0 points is not an outcome I would deem "ok".
I did say winning would obviously be best, but in football (unlike certain other sports) randomness plays a big part, so it's possible to play the other team off the park, but for every one of your shots to hit a player or a post or whatever, and for them to get one lucky deflection and win. Over the course of season those things will usually even themselves out, with the result that the best teams win over all. For this reason a poor, weak performance would be worrying, even if we won, because it would suggest fragility, signifying that in the end we'd be below the best, whereas a good, strong performance, even if we lost, would be reassuring because it would suggest we have the quality.
For an example of what I mean see Liverpool's performance against Swansea, in which they did well do avoid a loss, Rodgers came out and said it was good because it showed grit. Bullshit, it showed fragility, and lo, the next match they displayed the same and got beat at home by Southampton. Liverpool supporters I'm sure would have taken a decent performance against Swansea even if they lost, because it would have meant the team was good and they'd be likely to beat teams like Southampton in the future.