philthesaddler wrote:Invite a certain amount of pressure?
:lol:
We barely saw the white round thing they call a football in the first half PH. They passed it and kept it, and they created chances. We didn't pass it, we lumped it, we didn't keep it, and we didn't create chances, except for a long range Ricketts effort.
The 2nd half was a minor improvement, with one chance created from which we scored.
Those 2 sentances above could easily describe the forest match.
The reason I'm so critical of this away team attitude that we show, in the face of mass criticism from other people, is because we've only won due to luck - Forest could and should have had 3 in the first half against us, northampton should have had 2 in the first last night, and one at the death. It's all very well playing with this 'away team' attitude, but sooner or later it aint going to work - sooner or later a team is going to score one and then our lack of attacking intent will stand out like a sore thumb.
The only reason our lack of attacking intent isnt showing up at the moment is because we aint conceding that many - now if that kind of negative "we'll concede less goals than you" excites, pleases or entertains you, then fair enough, but it certainly didn't excite, please or entertain me, nor did it everyone I spoke to last night.
Did they really create that many chances in the first half? Hubertz had the header cleared off the line, but that was from a set-piece, not because we sat off them and let them play. I don't remember Ince having a proper save to make at all and I thought that we contained them pretty well on the whole and that it looked a nailed on 0-0 from fairly early. The game opened up a bit in the second half and maybe they had a couple more clear chances then, but not that many - around me we were talking about penalty takers from about 20 minutes into the second half so sure were we that extra time was almost inevitable.
Once again you say "we've only won due to luck". Again, I'll say that you get what you deserve in football. If you can't take your chances then that's your own fault - and maybe Forest "could" have been three up by half time, but there's no way I'll agree that they "should" have been. As I say, keepers and defenders are as integral a part of a football side as the more attacking players - and ours are the best in this division as a unit. If you win because your back four have a blinder or the keeper pulls out five or six great saves then that's not "lucky", it's one part of the team (the defence) helping out another (the attack) by making their job easier (only have to put together one decent move all night to win the game).
As for your last paragraph, this is football we're talking about. If you don't like it then don't go - but it's always been the same, the team that concedes least goals wins the game, so don't complain that it's not what you signed up for when you bought the ticket. I'm not saying that last night was the best night I've ever spent at Bescot (far from it), but if I walk out of the ground with the team having won then I'll always be happier than I was before the game.