Well the improved performance's continue, a draw at Stamford Bridge is always a decent result, but what a gutting way to finish a game. At the time I thought the last minute equaliser was harsh on us, but the more I've thought about it, it probably wasn't. Others have used the fact that we relied on De Gea to protect our lead too often, but we were away from home against a side who whilst obviously not what they were, still have good players. No, the reason we probably didn't deserve the the three points was the way we played after taking the lead, especially the last ten minutes to quarter of an hour.
I'd usually blame Van Gaal, but whilst he obviously contributed with his ridiculous substitutions, I think the players settled for that one goal lead. I'm no Fellaini fan, but he had a decent game, still Schneiderlin for him at least made some sense. But Depay for Lingard just as the pressure was really beginning to mount, was off the scale bonkers. The guy does just not put a shift in. Add to that, his confidence is low and form non existent, then you should half expect him to completely fuck up passes like the great counter attack chance we had about a minute before they went to the other end and equalised.
Of course that was equally bad defending, Blind had a bit of a moment, I'm not sure how Borthwick-Jackson gets any blame for that though. Speaking of the young left back, I have resisted the temptation to go overboard over his displays on the basis that he hasn't really played against anybody yet, for ninety minutes anyway. But I thought that yesterday was a performance to take note off, he really did look the part. I saw him play for the youth team and thought he obviously had a good technique and had a bit of pace, but wasn't sure he would be able to handle the physical side of the game. So far, so good, even when the senior players regain fitness I'd like to see us persevere with him till the end of the season, maybe resting him for the odd game. Given our position in the league, maybe the emergence of Lingard and Borthwick-Jackson are what we should focus on.
Jesse Lingard didn't have a great game, but as usual he does enough good things to continue to keep faith with him, we are a better team with him in the eleven than not. Add to that he is an attacking midfielder who is a natural goalscorer and what's not to like. He took his goal absolutely superbly, and that's another thing, he doesn't just score goals, he scores all types of goals. Let's hope Wilson gets a chance next season, another lad who can score different type of goals.
Though I don't think fourth spot has definitely gone yet, given the league this season, how can anybody say that, it's going to get harder unless we can put a string of victories together. To be honest I was more gutted over the equaliser because this sort of thing always seem to happen to us at Stamford Bridge than the league position. So onto to Sunderland, can we make four decent performance's on the bounce?
I'd usually blame Van Gaal, but whilst he obviously contributed with his ridiculous substitutions, I think the players settled for that one goal lead. I'm no Fellaini fan, but he had a decent game, still Schneiderlin for him at least made some sense. But Depay for Lingard just as the pressure was really beginning to mount, was off the scale bonkers. The guy does just not put a shift in. Add to that, his confidence is low and form non existent, then you should half expect him to completely fuck up passes like the great counter attack chance we had about a minute before they went to the other end and equalised.
Of course that was equally bad defending, Blind had a bit of a moment, I'm not sure how Borthwick-Jackson gets any blame for that though. Speaking of the young left back, I have resisted the temptation to go overboard over his displays on the basis that he hasn't really played against anybody yet, for ninety minutes anyway. But I thought that yesterday was a performance to take note off, he really did look the part. I saw him play for the youth team and thought he obviously had a good technique and had a bit of pace, but wasn't sure he would be able to handle the physical side of the game. So far, so good, even when the senior players regain fitness I'd like to see us persevere with him till the end of the season, maybe resting him for the odd game. Given our position in the league, maybe the emergence of Lingard and Borthwick-Jackson are what we should focus on.
Jesse Lingard didn't have a great game, but as usual he does enough good things to continue to keep faith with him, we are a better team with him in the eleven than not. Add to that he is an attacking midfielder who is a natural goalscorer and what's not to like. He took his goal absolutely superbly, and that's another thing, he doesn't just score goals, he scores all types of goals. Let's hope Wilson gets a chance next season, another lad who can score different type of goals.
Though I don't think fourth spot has definitely gone yet, given the league this season, how can anybody say that, it's going to get harder unless we can put a string of victories together. To be honest I was more gutted over the equaliser because this sort of thing always seem to happen to us at Stamford Bridge than the league position. So onto to Sunderland, can we make four decent performance's on the bounce?
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