Quote Originally Posted by SMatthews View Post
Which is why we are 5th and one point off fourth. Better than we were last season at this point. If you expected better, but we have the fifth best squad, what were the expectations?
We are 5 points better off so far. I guess that is improvement, but over 26 games it's not much.
I was expecting a bit more, to be honest. I've not been enjoying the football the last few years. I expected with a new manager we'd be playing better football. For a time at the start of the season, I was.
There seemed to be real purpose while we were going forward, still a lot of wobbling at the back but remember the way we tore Leicester apart in the second half?
The idea of a manager who apparently actually studies the opposition and sets the team up to play against them and the way they play seemed like a step forward.
I agree about Solskjaer but a lot of people on here were claiming that it was Wenger dragging us down and "anyone" would do better. Anyone isn't doing that much better.
I think my main annoyance now is how similar recent games have been to last season. Expected pastings against big teams, embarrassing defeats, limping past sides we should be beating confidently.
And playing football I'm finding frustrating to watch.
Once we went 2-0 up I never felt we would lose to Huddersfield, we were certainly never hanging on. But it wasn't a convincing win like it could and should have been
We deserved to win but the gulf in class you should see between a team bottom of the league and one allegedly in the hunt for a top 4 finish wasn't really apparent.

Agree that the players don't get off scott free last night, I felt that under Wenger too. For all his failings the players have to take some responsibility.
It's not good enough all round and from the owner downwards there's so much incompetence in the club.
And, worse, Spurs are looking like we used to, going toe to toe with some of the best sides in Europe