Quote Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE View Post
HCZ there is no way you are going to win an argument against momentum in football as their is more than a 100 years of stats to show it exists and is a real thing.

Anyway, one thing I think you are failing to consider is the Home and Away element to our performances this season.

What I mean is we had spells where we had a few games at home in a row, and one bad result just kept pulling more of the same.

If I am correct, the crucial period earlier this year (or was it late last year) where we had like 3 or 4 home games in a row and we ended not winning any (or was it winning one), which I think resulted in us exiting one of the cups.

Anyway, its difficult to come to the same stadium where you inexcusably let people down 7 days ago and pull out a world beating performances in front of the same crowd especially when the opposition has scored within the first 4 mins..... come on, both the fans and the players are actually human.

It’s a very online thing to do, to argue from binaries

I’m not arguing momentum doesn’t exist, but there’s also clear examples of teams (including us) playing dreck in one competition and putting in top performances in another.

Our history shows of course that poor form in one game bleeds into another no matter what the competition. This season indicates that there’s been a degree of compartmentalisation. And I simply don’t see how you can argue Momentum is not a factor when we win in Europe and it is a factor when we lose.


The last time we were in a European cup semi final, we lost the away and home leg but we won the premier league games before and between the ties.