RichieRiv wrote:I'll take the 3 points but the way some of you are banging on about it, it was a clinical, surgical win.
It was far from it, even up to injury time.
The midfield were missing, Randolph's distribution was pony, Byram is a dirty little **** that will get sent off, our front line couldn't finish their dinner and overall most of our players looked disinterested,
All I can conclude is that most of you look at a win and think we played well. We didn't and most I talked to thought the same.
As I said I'll take 3 points because we need them. Good performance it wasn't.
Baffled by this.
Reasons I thought we played well was because we controlled most of the play, had by far the better chances - at least 5 efforts close to scoring or having scored a a quality winner. Whereas Swansea were reduced to next to nothing.
Our only problem was not having a clinical finisher (we had 2 kicking their heels on the bench) and a Keeper that continues to look shaky and wasteful in possession, but other than that the side looked balanced and well organised bar the odd moment of lapse in concentration which happens in this League. 1-0 really flattered them and going by Clements comments afterwards, he seemed in agreement that they were by far the 2nd best team against us which said a lot about how well we played. By rights it could have been about 3-0 had we got a bit more rub of the green. Snodgrass, Ayew twice, Lanzini, Byram, Calleri chances stand out in my mind as well as Kouyates class finish. I'm struggling to remember their efforts.