Mixed bag of feelings about how this season is going. I notice many here thinking the ship has been righted. Maybe it has, but I'm not so sure, not quite that optimistic, but there are signs of going in right direction.
Two wins in a row - Well done to the lads, two clean sheets in a row. Especially encouraging since I felt that both Castagne and Robinson, especially Robinson, had poor games (v Cov). Both were easily beaten by moving forwards. Well done to the center backs and midfielders to keep things together. Somehow we kept clean sheets in both these games, Leno will never have an easier time recording such, in spite of poor shows from the above mentioned as well as Garcia and Iwobi. So, overall great results even though not at our best. That said, against a couple of newly promoted clubs does give me pause, and we need to see follow through v established PL clubs, next two upcoming games should be revealing.
The offense - Still having tough time scoring goals. And not cashing in on great chances created. This will need to improve going forward. This has already been discussed a lot in the forum.
FFC tough to break down - Not just these past two clean sheets v newly promoted clubs, but have lost all games by just one goal. Held L'pool scoreless and ManU to a single goal. We are competitive in all games played so far. Backline four and midfield are doing a pretty good job, as well as forward players coming back to help out.
So, my mixed bag of feelings - First several games when we were having slugfests, I thought FFC was gonna be more of an offensive juggernaut, scoring bunches. Well now, not so sure about that, as we seem to now be struggling to tickle the twine. And looking to be a tough team to break down and score upon. Right now, I think we have to say FFC more a defensive team than otherwise, and I'm not so sure this was AA's vision when he took over as coach. I still think AA sees FFC being more offensively oriented, but recent results don't prove that out. Wondering how AA plays it moving forward as we have upcoming tests v more established PL sides. Will be interesting to see how our new coach plays it, and how we fare.