Fucking hell man, never did I ever think in the 68th minute when we're 3-0 up and cruising that I would go on to endure as much stress in that last 20/25 minutes as I did. We've won a really tough away game yet all I feel is angry
The best and worse from Emi in one game. Absolutely unplayable for the first hour. Great finish for the first goal, sublime pass for the 2nd. Gets a booking, and at that point all he has to do is not do anything stupid, and within minutes he goes in with a high foot and gets another yellow card. I know it's not the same as diving into a reckless challenge, but when you're on a yellow card you need to be more careful. To be fair, the way we reacted as a team to going down to 10 wasn't good enough, but one rash moment from Emi so nearly cost us. It's so frustrating as well because he was fantastic today. Not to mention that our squad is already spread so thin due to injuries, we can't afford anyone to be missing games unnecessarily, particularly our best player.
Really worrying that we could be without Krul for a spell. I've been saying it for 2/3 years now but McGovern just is not near good enough to be our goalkeeper in the Championship. Yeah he didn't do an awful lot wrong when he came on tonight, but I honestly would so rather we just play Barden or another one of the youth lads. McGovern's distribution is awful, he inspires no confidence in the defence, his positioning was all over the place, a couple of times his feet were at least a couple of yards behind the line, not to mention that by goalkeeping standards he's tiny. I'm honestly so worried that we're likely going to have to have him in-between the sticks for the foreseeable, for one of the most important run-ins of the season. These injuries in general though are just so frustrating, just feels like we can't catch a break.
Still, to go away to Boro and Stoke and take 6 points is absolutely amazing. After a really tough run of games where we seemed to be playing an in-form team every game, now of our next 4 games, 3 of them are against teams who are 20th or below. Hopefully we can just come through those games top of the table, and get some players back from injury in that time.