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Still have to monitor Sons injury situation now. Son is out tomorrow. Think he will be fine aswell for the weekend though. Edit: apparently just sore, and they didn't plan to have him involved anyways.

Wait, I thought his head was in Liverpool and he couldn't wait to leave?

Sign him up!

Had a look, points taken last 20 min for the entire 23/24 season: Apr 6 vs Fulham 1-0 (81) March 30 vs West Ham (77, 83, 90) 4-3 Feb 17 vs Bournemouth (90+2) 2-2 So we took points in the last 20 minutes 3 times all of last season. We've actually done better on that this season, I guess. But we killed a lot of games last season, and also had fatigue issues, so ofcourse there are reasons for it.

Yeah, I realised after I posted that we've scored some late goals this season. Mostly long distance shots I think, but still fine. Last season we mostly lost points at the end of games. Partly down to players being too tired at the end. So that's what I remembered, but in the last couple of games I think due to the visible frustration, lack of confidence, and the gamestate, you just have that feeling that there's such a low chance.

I thought about this last game. How often do we equalize or score a winner in the last 10 min of a match? And even worse, how often do we do it in stoppage time? When we passed the 80 min mark, it felt like the game was over already. Not just looking at this season, but 2024 overall. Edit: We've actually rescued some point around the 75-80 min mark this season, so my recollection was a bit bad here.

I find myself caring less and less. Was somewhat interesting with Messi and Ronaldo competing for it, though.

Apparently it's leaked? Or?

That's why I said "for an okay price" in my post, and that this is easier said than done. I assume that if we had been able to bring in good players for a decent price in previous windows, we would've done so. Mitchell coming it doesn't change the price of players, unless he somehow is an amazing negotiator.

Well, apart from the first window we haven't been able to find that after the takeover. We were able to get Gordon, who turned out to be great, but he did nothing in the first 6 months.

Problem now is that we rarely want to spend extra to get someone in january. If we don't, that will be 3 windows of selling Minteh and Anderson, while signing Kelly and Osula.. Really hope we can manage to get someone that can do a job immidiately for an okay price, but that much easier said than done.

It's hard to tell, as someone has pointed out on the forum we are really unbalanced, probably the most unbalanced team in the league. That makes us even harder to predict imo, as we are relying a lot on a few players.

We can still hit form, like any other team. It's so unpredictable. I'm hoping some of the teams in Europe will encounter some of the problems that we had last season. It would probably start happening in december in that case.

I think we agree for the most part. The only part I was reacting to was bringing in league position, which is based on all games, and then we should also consider whoever deserved the points in all of them. Ofcourse we deserved to win the last 2 and it's looking better performance wise.

Thanks for bringing it up. I thought the 3-0 loss to Everton at the start of december wasn't just down to fatigue. I was probably wrong, but I also said at the time that IF it's down to that, we're in for a horrible december. People like you refused to accept that, saying things like it varies from game to game. We all saw what happened.

The actual big picture is that performances has been pretty bad so far overall, and we were fortunate to not be in a bad position. In the last 2 games we have been much better, but have been a bit both ineffective and unfortunate. As allways, margins usually goes both ways and evens out a bit. "We could've been third" if luck just kept going our way like it has isn't the big picture to me.

Yeah, I know there has been an improvement. But talking about how we could be third is a different matter.

Just to clear up any confusion. What I was responding to orignally was: "It's such fine margins , Gordon scores that penalty against Everton and Isak scores that chance to put us 1 up on Saturday and we are sat joint 3rd with Arsenal and Villa." Now if this would've happened (winning both and being 3rd), we would've been the luckiest team in the league so far. If it wasn't for fine margins, we wouldn't even have a chance to go joint 3rd in the first place. Far from it.

Our league position is not determined on the last 2 games.

But you get the point.. It's pointless walking about what position we would be if margins had gone our way in the last 2 games, and just ignore all the margins we had on our side in the other games. All in all we've taken more points than what the performances would suggest, so how can we complain about margins? You understand this, right? It's pointless.

Feels like he needs some time unfortunately. Which is understandable. Hasn't played much since the start of last season, and is probably not mentally there yet either.

The defender had an easy job of avoiding to put an arm to it. Falling or not, it's not like anyone shot the ball into his arm from close range. It was just rolling on the ground. It's his responsibility to not intercept the ball with his arm in that situation, you'd think..