Quote from: Risso on September 02, 2019, 09:34:37 AMHuddersfield lost three of their first four games last season, and went down.Yeah, but they're shit.
Huddersfield lost three of their first four games last season, and went down.
Quote from: mike on September 02, 2019, 10:14:20 AMWe were at least as good as Bournemouth but suffered from two semi fluke goals and were very unlucky against Palace. Like others, I worry about the striker options but as long as the team spirit holds, we will be fine once we get a few wins in.It's hard to judge whether we were as good as Bournemouth. We gifted them a 2 goad start and they played the rest of the game accordingly. They didn't do much because they didn't have to. Yes they were lucky, but they beat us at a canter.As for Palace, the decision was a disgrace but they were FAR better than us on the day.I am still hopeful we will be ok, but I don't take much comnfort from those two games.
We were at least as good as Bournemouth but suffered from two semi fluke goals and were very unlucky against Palace. Like others, I worry about the striker options but as long as the team spirit holds, we will be fine once we get a few wins in.
Quote from: chrisw1 on September 02, 2019, 10:20:45 AMQuote from: mike on September 02, 2019, 10:14:20 AMWe were at least as good as Bournemouth but suffered from two semi fluke goals and were very unlucky against Palace. Like others, I worry about the striker options but as long as the team spirit holds, we will be fine once we get a few wins in.It's hard to judge whether we were as good as Bournemouth. We gifted them a 2 goad start and they played the rest of the game accordingly. They didn't do much because they didn't have to. Yes they were lucky, but they beat us at a canter.As for Palace, the decision was a disgrace but they were FAR better than us on the day.I am still hopeful we will be ok, but I don't take much comnfort from those two games.Bournemouth was a car crash first 15 minutes but not how you say they were far better than us when applying same to Palace.Against Bournemouth we had 21 (!) shots, 7 on target and 10 corners. Palace had 22 shots with 5 on target and 13 corners (although at least half of them came after we went down to 10 men).If v Bournemouth we'd had a card happy ref like Friend in charge then Phillip Billing surely would've got a red so that would've improved the stats aswell.So far I'd say we won a tight game v Everton (1 nil up to 95th minute) and lost three tight ones, two by a single goal and Spurs was 1-1 up to 86th minute. Maybe a bit too simplistic but we are in games up to the very end.We certainly have the keeper and CB combination to stay up as we're difficult to break down but we also lack lots in the final third, people would really be optimstic to think we have a front three that is certain to fire us to safety.
Quote from: cdbullyweefan on September 02, 2019, 10:28:11 AMQuote from: Risso on September 02, 2019, 09:34:37 AMHuddersfield lost three of their first four games last season, and went down.Yeah, but they're shit. Palace lost first 7 on the trot 2 years ago and stayed up. Not worried yet.
Yes.I don't think our squad is good enough or deep enough, we don't have enough possession and we don't create enough chances.Our new signings are a mixed bag: Been impressed with Heaton, Engels and Guilbert, but Trezeguit and Wesley are simply not good enough at this level, Jota a bit player at best, El Ghazi poor.Even after the euphoria of the Everton win I was'nt convinced and I think Smith's tactics of getting the ball to stick up top with players joining from midfield is flawed, we have to be able to change tactics for different situations, and I'm surprised I haven't seen enough of that from Smith.We all, me included, want him so much to succeed, but I don't think our owners will want us to get too stranded near the foot before they start getting twitchy, hope it does'nt come to that but the West Ham game is becoming huge now before a trip to Arsenal, where we won't have much possession again.