What happened to this incredible away form that we had under Alex Neil? Can't remember the last time we actually looked like winning a game away from home.
You can almost forgive the players if they lack quality but put up a fight and show that they have the desire to want to stay up, just like they did against Chelsea earlier this week. But today we didn't were shambolic (again). No fight and so little ability, in a massive game against a team who, to be honest, were not particularly good for most of the game.
Why the f*ck did we buy Pinto? Absolutely useless defensively and can't cross to save his life either. Naismith doesn't look interested and was plain sh*t today, Martin is just poor, and Tettey, Brady and Bassong, 3 of our best players, are all injured. Honestly don't know how we're going to find a win from anywhere. Ruddy and Klose are the only players who can say they didn't play badly today, that said I think Klose was a bit lucky not to concede a penalty.
Usually I try and look for positives after games, but there are absolutely none today. We've lost 8 of our last 9 games, we've only picked up 3 points away from home since the end of September (that really is a dire stat),not picking up any points in away games since mid-December, we don't have a goalscorer in our whole team, we've kept 3 clean sheets in the league all season, our most important player, Tettey, is out for the rest of the season, we don't seem to turn up for the '6 pointers', and above it all most of the players don't even seem bothered.
Manchester City next, in other words another defeat, but then after that we have West Brom, Newcastle, Palace, Sunderland and Watford. If we assume that we won't get anything from our final 3 games, I think we'll need 4 wins from those 5, or at the very least 3 wins and 2 draws. At the moment it looks a challenge to simply draw one of those games. I will stick with Alex Neil, even if we go down, but I really fear the worst right now, and have to say think he got it wrong today by changing the system from 3-4-3.
No doubt now we'll concede an early goal against Manchester City, play really well for the whole rest of the game, create chances but lose narrowly, everyone will get their hopes up again, only for us to do exactly what we did today against West Brom, another massive game.
