Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
What about the pressure of an FA Cup Qtr Final at Old Trafford.
Or the pressure of a cup semi-final, or final actually - especially when you go 2-0 down in one having not won a trophy in 10 years.
Or the pressure of playing City, knowing a win will put you top at Christmas.
Or the pressure of playing the team 5 points above you at the top, knowing a defeat will put you out of the title race.

I'm not saying pressure isn't a factor, but it's not the only one. There are plenty of examples where we've won pressure games both this season and in the last couple. It's too simplistic to say it's just because we can't handle pressure.
I think to some extent having won the FA cup the season before the pressure was less in the FA Cup the 2nd time round and we were playing and Man U team who weren't much kop to be honest and in the end were down to 10.

Yes I guess being 2-0 in the semi was a pressure situation but you could argue that at 2-0 we thought we'd almost lost and could throw caution to the wind as the game was almost gone and it worked, I still maintain the pressure for the cup isn't the same, Wenger has not put much emphasis on this trophy for years.

The pressure at Christmas just isn't the same, there's half a season to go, you're nowhere near winning anything.

Again with Leicester we weren't great and won it with the last kick which has an element of fortune in it, it's not like we started really well scored a few and stamped our authority on the game, the sending off certainly helped our cause as well, had it be 11 vs 11 all match I doubt we'd have won.