Quote Originally Posted by Ice Berg Kamping View Post
I think a point is OK in the circumstances, but I was gutted, absolutely gutted, that we conceded the late goal. Why do these wonder strikes always seem to happen to - and not for us??? I disagree with people who are intimating that we are basically shit now compared to last season. We are better going forwards than last night showed, but we are so lacking in confidence that it hurts. I've said before that we are the most vulnerable team in the league to a drop in confidence because of the way we are set up to play - and that's why I am so disappointed with their goal, because a win, even when we played ordinarily first half would have been a real confidence boost. A point not so much.

Happy with the effort and desire in defence. Koscielny - for his flaws is a brave defender, and I think he could thrive alongside Mertesacker. As usual - people are destroying Chamakh - and I can see the antipathy given his goal drought - but its so naive to expect a performance from any striker brought on for the last 10 mins against a team desperate to score and playign at home in front of 80000 fans it makes me smile.
I agree, techinically Cesc and Nas could make us look great but I cant help feeling that if this team can grow and gel together we could be looking at a more balanced unit.
I do think we have to be realistic and say the pretty football is behind, a lot of results are going to have to ground out on guts, Jack will thrive in this environment, as will a few others.
Man U are a monster team, SAF has something very special and although we may not reach those heights there is no reason why we cant be dangerius again, with a couple more additions.
Confidence is missing and I said before that it would take more than the summer to get that back, throw in the loss of Cesc and Nas we have some work to do.

BTW NQ is the only one allowed to criticise Chamak because they live together.