I just saw Rice’s comments after the match, “felt like we should’ve scored 10.”
Hold on, you scored on a corner that wasn’t a corner, and due to some proper shit goalkeeping. I was recovering from a minor procedure watching the match, so maybe I missed it on the account of pain pills but they fucking weren’t that good that night were they?
Well they had 6 blocked shots and 4 on target their expected goals was lower than their actual goal target.
Watching it they seemed lucky, statistically it says much the same.
However much didn’t really change, they are in this race due to the way we are playing. They got the result this midweek we have an advantage of two games. I would question the attitude of some and this contract talk needs sorting one way or the other.
But at this moment we are the only team in the race with the players who have done this before. A few have gone toe to toe with Man City and the likelihood is I don’t expect we will need to do that.
Still they are in the the race it is up to their opponents to realise how to defend against them. I would hope Villa would be a better test on that front but who knows.
What they are doing , and getting away with , is cheating plain and simple. Every corner is a variation on a theme of blocking the goalie and pushing defenders out of the way. How the fuck do they get away with it time after time after time ?