Arsenal 1-2 Hull City
In an effort to not let (Arsenal) football take over my life, I decided to Tivo the Hull City game and go to the Bodies exhibition with a friend, with Dave helpfully providing e-mail updates on my BlackBerry. I was nervous before the game (to be fair, I'm ALWAYS nervous before a game), and as it turns out, with good reason. 1-2 at home!
I was pretty down all day -- I was looking at slices of preserved cerebellum and spleen thinking, I just can't believe it, it's all over. Even not having watched the game (no way I'm watching now), my reaction was more like Arseblogger's:
Well, that was a bit fucking shit, wasn't it? Not exactly the 83 nil we were hoping for, and perhaps it's reward for exactly that kind of attitude...We huffed and puffed, and had a lot of possession (as did Hull; one of the stats during the first half gave them 85% possession in five minutes), but we couldn't break them down. The most frustrating aspect of it wasn't the same old story that we just couldn't unpick their defence. It was that we didn't look like we really cared about unpicking their defence.
What actually concerns me even more is that we went up a goal and couldn't hold on -- can you imagine any other top club doing that? We could have played shit, we could have had a bad attitude, whatever -- but we shouldn't be the kind of club that can't hold on to a lead when we're facing the likes of Hull City.
A day later, I'm a bit more philosophical, and feel more like Gunnerblog:
Whilst I’m not going to suggest we were particularly good, there is a marked difference between yesterday’s performance and the one that saw us lose at Fulham. Fulham was not a freak result...[w]e could play like we did at Fulham 100 times, and we wouldn’t win once. Play like we did yesterday, and the majority of the time we would come away with something.
It’s vital we put a run of wins together now to get our points tally back on track. People will say, “We only lost three times last season and now we’ve already lost twice”, but Man U lost more games than us last season and won the title: we simply drew too many games last year. If we can increase our win percentage accordingly and be in the race come January, who knows what might happen.
So. Onward and upward, I suppose. Let's see what happens with Porto this week.
And thanks to Arseblog and Gunnerblog for telling me how I feel.
I was pretty down all day -- I was looking at slices of preserved cerebellum and spleen thinking, I just can't believe it, it's all over. Even not having watched the game (no way I'm watching now), my reaction was more like Arseblogger's:
Well, that was a bit fucking shit, wasn't it? Not exactly the 83 nil we were hoping for, and perhaps it's reward for exactly that kind of attitude...We huffed and puffed, and had a lot of possession (as did Hull; one of the stats during the first half gave them 85% possession in five minutes), but we couldn't break them down. The most frustrating aspect of it wasn't the same old story that we just couldn't unpick their defence. It was that we didn't look like we really cared about unpicking their defence.
What actually concerns me even more is that we went up a goal and couldn't hold on -- can you imagine any other top club doing that? We could have played shit, we could have had a bad attitude, whatever -- but we shouldn't be the kind of club that can't hold on to a lead when we're facing the likes of Hull City.
A day later, I'm a bit more philosophical, and feel more like Gunnerblog:
Whilst I’m not going to suggest we were particularly good, there is a marked difference between yesterday’s performance and the one that saw us lose at Fulham. Fulham was not a freak result...[w]e could play like we did at Fulham 100 times, and we wouldn’t win once. Play like we did yesterday, and the majority of the time we would come away with something.
It’s vital we put a run of wins together now to get our points tally back on track. People will say, “We only lost three times last season and now we’ve already lost twice”, but Man U lost more games than us last season and won the title: we simply drew too many games last year. If we can increase our win percentage accordingly and be in the race come January, who knows what might happen.
So. Onward and upward, I suppose. Let's see what happens with Porto this week.
And thanks to Arseblog and Gunnerblog for telling me how I feel.
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