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Mentality midgets

% - The percentage of match time in which Premier League teams have been ahead in 2023-24 (all competitions):

47.9% - Manchester City
47.3% - Newcastle United
39.9% - Liverpool
38.9% - West Ham United
37.3% - Arsenal
35.9% - Aston Villa
33.4% - Tottenham Hotspur
33.1% - Everton
31.4% - Chelsea
31.0% - Brighton and Hove Albion
29.9% - Brentford
27.0% - Fulham
24.5% - Nottingham Forest
23.0% - Crystal Palace
22.0% - Wolverhampton Wanderers
16.2% - Burnley
15.8% - Manchester United
14.7% - Luton Town
13.3% - Bournemouth
4.5% - Sheffield United

Drifting.


For the last 10 years, this club has been mentally broken but it’s got even worse under this manager.

As much as we lambasted Ole, Jose and Van Gaal they never produced these type of stats and we never lost 9/17 games either since the season started.

Club needs a complete overhaul, and that has to start with the manager. I don’t even know what player deserves to stay here for the foreseeable either, every one of them consistently lets us down.

posted on 9/11/23

comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 35 seconds ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 22 minutes ago
So no club had been ahead more than half of their matches?

Not even city?

Pep is a bald fraud
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Lots of games are 0-0 for twenty or thirty minutes so to be up nearly 50% is pretty good.
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You are a smart man and I can't fault your logic but my summary can not be corrected

posted on 9/11/23

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 2 hours, 19 minutes ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 35 seconds ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 22 minutes ago
So no club had been ahead more than half of their matches?

Not even city?

Pep is a bald fraud
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Lots of games are 0-0 for twenty or thirty minutes so to be up nearly 50% is pretty good.
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You are a smart man and I can't fault your logic but my summary can not be corrected
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true

posted on 9/11/23

Even the 1st goal they had a player in offside position directly in front of the goalkeeper.

posted on 9/11/23

United should have played the offside trap on the halfway line when they had 10 men. It's the way forward

posted on 9/11/23

Oh...we're about right then...

posted on 9/11/23

Our mentality is our biggest problem, 100%. That's on the manager, so ETH needs to sort this out fast or he will be the next one gone.

posted on 9/11/23

Moaning Minnie

posted on 9/11/23

Wonderful wonderful Copenhagen ,I awoke to my friend in Denmark singing this to me this morning ,he said that he was still drunk from last night !

posted on 9/11/23

There are issues with collective panic setting in but I don't think yesterday was a particular example of it. Copenhagen weren't particularly tearing us apart once we went down to 10 men. It was more basic individual mistakes. Dalot's defending for the second equaliser was atrocious. Varane's cheap giveaway for the winner was atrocious and he was poor in the first half as well.

There's stuff to criticise about yesterday's match but it wasn't an example collapse of morale or confidence. We played sensible, coherent football for a long period when down to 10 men: not trying to force things but controlling possession and waiting for an opening, and ready to hit them on the break. The fourth goal very nearly came. If the result doesn't demoralise the players too much, I think the performance is something to build on.

Ultimately, the field tilted dramatically in Copenhagen's favour when Rashford got sent off, which was a freak unfortunate event whether you agree with the decision or not, and had it not been for individual mistakes we'd have won the game despite playing a good 60 minutes with ten men.

posted on 9/11/23

comment by H von H. (U16981)
posted 2 hours, 54 minutes ago
Wonderful wonderful Copenhagen ,I awoke to my friend in Denmark singing this to me this morning ,he said that he was still drunk from last night !
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visited Copenhagen this year on a cruise...picked up two bikes & rode into the centre - went to Tivoli Gardens...excellent day

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