Let’s have some calm (22 Viewers)

[Londonccfcfan]

Someone made a thread the other week about an “us against them mentality” I can’t find it but it pretty much hit the nail on the head in terms of how we need to be. The celebrations last night from Norwich like they had just won the league tells you everything about being top of the league, teams are raising their game against us wanting to get a result.

I hope Lampard read them the riot act last night, we were very poor, the standard we set at the start of the season is the very minimum we need to be hitting, we’ve got a full squad back now so there’s no excuses.

Starting with QPR on Saturday we need to raise our game, Lampard has a part to play in terms of sorting that gaping hole in the middle of the park we’ve been letting teams exploit for long enough!

I was angry last night, slept on it and woke up remembering were still 3 points clear at the top, 8 off third.

That being said if there’s not a vast improvement on Saturday I’ll start to worry.

Yes agreed. But its the form of last 11 games. We really did scrape some of the wins we have got.

We dont look convincing at all in any match.

I prefer the games where Rushworth doesnt have anything to do.

 

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[Great_Expectations]

I understand the call for calm, and I agree things are still in our hands - just.

However it’s also understandable why fans are concerned; team performances have been poor, individuals well under par, constant failure to adapt our tactics and style of play, players preferred regardless of form.

Plus external factors; teams around us finding momentum and strengthening this window. On the latter we’ve done so, but we still need more.

It is an extra emotive time right now, this is the closest we’ve been since we dropped out the premier league - nobody wants to see us blow it when we’re so close.

And those who recall the Mowbray season are likely getting flashbacks. Never mind what followed the season after!

 

[CCFCSteve]

Seem to have lost that discipline,is Frank not the second coming?

The clinicalness included a bit of luck earlier in the season, now it’s not quite going for us. We weren’t quite as good as people thought we were earlier in the season, we’re not quite as bad as some are saying we are now. That’s not to say we don’t need to sort some stuff out though and I’d be disappointed if we don’t

 

[Lamps]

What makes me laugh is I was called clueless by many before the season started for predicting we would finish 2nd to 4th this season as we had a poor squad. Now I'm not supposed to be relaxed by the present situation caused by illness and injuries the squad which for now are over.

We've nearly played all of our most difficult games of the season. We have a stronger squad than we started with. We're back to 2 points a game since we could put good players on the bench.

QPR A
Oxford H
Middlesbrough H
WBA A
Sheffield United A
Stoke H

That's our games until the end of February. It's also more or less 1/3 of our remaining games. 4 wins 2 defeats puts us on 70 points with 13 games remaining.

Middlesbrough

Norwich H
Sheffield United A
Coventry A
Oxford H
Leicester H
Birmingham A

Ipswich

Preston H
Portsmouth A
Wrexham A
Derby A
Watford A
Swansea H

They also have a cup game against Wrexham in the middle of that.

 

[Grendel]

The last thing we need to do is act entitled.

We're not going to win every game. We lost last night because of a defensive mistake yet we had the better chances away against the present form side.

And still we have many that decide to ignore the reasons for our little bad run like injuries and illness that went through the squad.

The way we play was seen as excellent when we were picking up lots of wins. We're now back up to strength and the wins will come back, but we still won't win every game.

Most of the predictions on here were playoffs at best, yet here we are needing less than a point a game to get into the playoffs and many are looking for someone to blame. ⁸

The way we play was reliant on grimes acting as a sweeper across the back to to allow the full backs to get further forward.

It’s not working anymore - we get cut open too easily. Torp looks like he’s physical age has increased by 10 years since the start of the season.

We don’t have the energy in midfield now. Ironically if O Hare was here then we possibly could still have done it. Let’s not kid ourselves. If we do end up in the play offs it will be very difficult to recover morale to get through it

 

[MacReady]

I’ll say it again. When was the last game we were actually in control? The concern is that we’ve been flaky as fuck for so many games. If we get through this window without midfield enforcements and just a couple of loans then it’ll be a missed opportunity.

Trying to stay positive as at least we own our stadium… but we are playing like a mid table team and have been for a while now.

 

[Grendel]

I understand the call for calm, and I agree things are still in our hands - just.

However it’s also understandable why fans are concerned; team performances have been poor, individuals well under par, constant failure to adapt our tactics and style of play, players preferred regardless of form.

Plus external factors; teams around us finding momentum and strengthening this window. On the latter we’ve done so, but we still need more.

It is an extra emotive time right now, this is the closest we’ve been since we dropped out the premier league - nobody wants to see us blow it when we’re so close.

And those who recall the Mowbray season are likely getting flashbacks. Never mind what followed the season after!

Which players are played regardless of form?

 

[stupot07]

Interesting looking at the average xG against, it shows we have been leakier and leakier.

Games
1-10 average xG 0.86
11-20 average xG 1.17
21-29 average xG 1.28

In the last 9 every team (100%) has managed to created chances of xG of 1+, in the previous 20, only 11 (55%) of teams having managed to create chances of xG of 1+.

Going forwards our xG for is also in decline

1-10 average xG 2.23
11-20 average xG 1.77
21-29 average xG 1.63

 

[Freddie]

What makes me laugh is I was called clueless by many before the season started for predicting we would finish 2nd to 4th this season as we had a poor squad. Now I'm not supposed to be relaxed by the present situation caused by illness and injuries the squad which for now are over.

We've nearly played all of our most difficult games of the season. We have a stronger squad than we started with. We're back to 2 points a game since we could put good players on the bench.

QPR A
Oxford H
Middlesbrough H
WBA A
Sheffield United A
Stoke H

That's our games until the end of February. It's also more or less 1/3 of our remaining games. 4 wins 2 defeats puts us on 70 points with 13 games remaining.

Middlesbrough

Norwich H
Sheffield United A
Coventry A
Oxford H
Leicester H
Birmingham A

Ipswich

Preston H
Portsmouth A
Wrexham A
Derby A
Watford A
Swansea H

They also have a cup game against Wrexham in the middle of that.

We just got out played by 20th in the league. Your paragraphs mean nothing.

 

[shmmeee]

Depends what you mean by "deserved"

You look at all the stats from last night, they're very even. Both 16 shots with 5 on target. We created 3 big chances vs their 2. We had 1.9 xG v 1.18.

Yes watching the game you could see we lacked control especially in midfield, but that game often ends in a draw or even a win for us. People forget EMC hitting the bar from yards out etc.

And you’re forgetting them hitting the post from yards out. And the two red cards we somehow avoided.