Do we lack that winning mentality

[ffcthereligion]

The Crystal Palace QF last season summed it up.

I am honestly sick of this game being referenced. There was no issue at all with our mentality that day. We lost because palace were by far the better team, they were clinical and defended unbelievably well. I would go as far to say that the way they were playing they were one of the most in form teams in world football in the middle of 2025. They didn't just do what they did to us. They did it to Villa (3-0) and city at Wembley. They then went on a 19 match unbeaten run. They had world class players like Eze and Guehi and mateta was on fire. I'm sorry to bite back like this at what you've wrote, it's nothing personal, I just believe it to be completely wrong and based off the heuristic 'it's only palace'.

If you had said we lacked mentality against Liverpool in the semi final of league cup, there I would have agreed with you. We had massive chances to go 2-0 up at anfield and gave them way too much respect at home. Castagne did his usual bottling of a challenge to let Diaz shoot and their team was full of injuries and kids. No Trent, salah, szobozlai, Robertson, tzimikas, Endo or matip for them. Yet nobody goes 'that Liverpool game sums us up' only because we played Liverpool so we were supposed to lose presumably

[ron]

As Bobby George once said about success at darts: "It's trebles for show, it's doubles for dough...."

Be as commanding as you like in the middle of the park - and with a little less messing about across the back -

..but it's putting the ball away consistently that takes you up the table to the next level. And we don't do that.