Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
A point at Chelsea is usually not bad but we really needed to win today to get our season going. I liked some of what I saw today, but only in short spells. I don't like how we are defending this season, we have looked really shakey defensively all season, stretching far back to the Villa away game where we basically got out of jail with Watkins missing sitters.

I have personally conceeded the title this season, I think we are going to be in the chasing pack for a while if we don't improve our performances, i think 3rd is the best we can hope for this season in PL.
I think it will be Xmas time/new year where we can properly assesses where we are

I don’t think City are going just through a bad patch, they are heamoraging. Take away losing Rodri for the season which is a far bigger loss than Odegaard for them. Bernardo Silva, De Bruyne, Stones, Ederson and Walker are not the players they were…Grealish and Foden are off the boil and they can’t just buy their way out of their problem

Liverpool? I’m sorry they just don’t impress me. I think they won against a wasteful Villa team last night…with the exception of us they haven’t really been tested. They were lucky to beat Chelsea and get a point from us, and aside from that they’ve had by far the easiest fixtures.

We’ve been in shocking form since the last international break. And we definitely, definitely need a striker. There’s no way we can win the league without signing one in January. We’ve ridden our luck at times but so have a lot of teams. That’s my takeaway that no side has looked good, and because of an obdurate manager we could be in danger of missing the open opportunity to get to the top of the pack