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So our next game is a meeting with newly promoted Bournemouth, after the debacle against Leicester of all teams, I would have hoped for a more favourable opponent ie not new to the Premiership. I watched the game at Anfield and was impressed and worried. They were unlucky to lose, a good goal ruled out by an overzealous ref and a bad decision by the officials in allowing Liverpool's winner when a Pool player was clearly offside. Bournemouth's performance certainly deserved some reward and will give them hope for their next match against us. If we play as we did against Leicester they have every chance of three points! I trust that SB has viewed Monday's game and hopefully can limit their possession and pace of play, which if not counteracted will give us a very stern test. Saturday's match proved to me that we are lacking in almost every area and new players are a must. We have a new manager who is intelligent, and, as we all know very eloquent. let's hope he can instill the very same qualities into the team although I feel that the adage "new tricks to old dogs" may apply in this instance to some of our "old dogs" and I don't mean their age.
Looks like this season might
Looks like this season might be more unpredictable than most. But the old saying about no easy games in this league remains as true as ever. The side has to give 100% every game. I'm not happy they haven't replaced Downing OR got the extra striker in yet! And why are we still effing about over Song?
We need to start well, no
We need to start well, no good playing like we did in the first half against Leicester otherwise that will just fuel their belief, we need to close them down, don't let them settle into the game and match if not better their work rate. I think the Leicester game was a truer representation of what we can expect if we don't have improvement in playing staff, we're still short in midfield and have no back up or options upfront other than Maiga, we caught Arsenal on an off day but it's annoying that we couldn't beat the likes of Leicester in our first game at home, Slaven needs to learn quickly and the owners need to give him the tools to do the job otherwise we'll see more results like last week
Howe says its gonna be a big
Howe says its gonna be a big test playing us the test will be for us me thinks
Still think Bournemouth
Still think Bournemouth,Norwich and Watford will all struggle this season ,I can see them all going back down.
It's always tough for teams
It's always tough for teams coming up from the chumps, but the confidence they have from winning so much in their promotion season usually lasts quite a while. I expect another very tough game today, and if we are not 100% 'at it' we'll be in trouble again. Need to start fast, something we've not been good at for many years (except in a few games.)
were doomed
Lawro got us down for a win.........................
2 defeats in 2 games for
2 defeats in 2 games for Bournemouth, and if there is a team to get your first 3 points of the season against then its always west ham to cough them up. Leicester had been poor all last season while being bottom and then up comes a fixture against west ham to kick your start your run to survival
We'd better roll these over
After the debacle against Leicester and considering our pool of players compared to Bournemouth's if we don't spank at least 3 past them after last week then it's a serious problem that Bilic and Sully/Gold face, the season will be a hard prospect to come .
Its all about the next game
Its all about the next game after Liverpool now ffs