If you’d said to me at the start of the season (or at least a few weeks in) that we’d lose to Man City, Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal (having a shite season I know), Chelsea, wolves and Leicester, I would of probably said expected, so it’s only really Bournemouth and Palace that I would of hoped to get something from. That’s not to say we haven’t got problems, like up front which it’s glaringly obvious the big man needs taken out the firing line for a bit and in midfield where since newcastle I’ve thought we need to rest McGinn but can’t really afford to.
My point is though, that the games that will decide our season are against the bottom 10, so far only lost to Bournemouth, but we badly need a number of wins on the bounce over xmas. My main fear is, as people have said, the heads dropping on Sunday, the last team we want to play with low confidence is Sheff Utd, who are the complete opposite. Get beat on Saturday, everyone has a meltdown and will be an anxious villa park for Southampton. But whatever the result on Saturday I believe we’ve shown already were as good as if not better than most of the teams around us