Can someone answer a rules question for me? Surely that should’ve been a red for that tackle on Niasse as he was clear in on goal. Is it possible to allow that goal to stand and give a red to the defender? Because they should absolutely be down to 10.
What it looks like, week in week out, is that this group of players thinks “there is absolutely no way we would go down.” And so there is no fight, because they just assume that sooner or later they’ll start winning games.
In such dark times as these, I was able to see at least one positive from this season thus far. We are the only team that City has dropped points to, and it was at the Etihad.
Just think how differently our season might’ve gone had we been able to hold on for that victory. Would’ve started with 6 points from 2 games.
Would this season have gone any different had we been able to hold on against City in that second game? 6 points from the first two games, who knows...might’ve changed a lot.
Or not. We would probably still be dreadful.