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Unbeaten but dropped points to spurs, Fulham and fucking chelsea, all while playing like absolute shit and not improving at all
Don’t ignore the context
We dropped points but also took points off them. And all that matters is us vs city which we won. All is ok.
The context is deeper than the results.
We have also been playing without Partey.
We are far better without Partey this season than we were last season
We aren’t but the key point is we still didn’t lose.
Tottenham (while I don’t think are that great) are league leaders (they’ll probably win tonight) and Chelsea while laughably bad at times had some pretty good underlying metrics and were picking up a bit of form coming into us. Not the worst games to get a point from. I’d have preferred to win against Tottenham at home but every team will get a game like that.
The Fulham game is the 1 big frustrating match imo. Should have been a win - especially with the sending off they had and we just threw it away
Drawing against Spurs and Chelsea, although it sucks, isn’t that surprising. Also, even great teams lose to sides like Wolves. It happens every year to every club. Saying we haven’t improved at all is asinine. The way we played against City showed a huge improvement in how we are mentally approaching competitions and also shows we can be much better defensively this year. We still are not clicking in the final 3rd, but I am hoping if we can go without injuries for awhile and our midfield continues to work out the kinks that will eventually change and we have seen signs of it in different moments in different fixtures. This isn’t last season. We have new players and a different approach. The quality will come. When we can gut out performances like yesterday and still come away with points against quality sides, it says a ton for the mental toughness of our side. Something that we needed and definitely seen improvement since last year.