Originally Posted by Neil G
Those two sentences contradict each other, don't they?
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not at all. the style of football has improved out of sight, we keep the ball far better than at any time under houllier, we are consistently difficult to beat, we have the top scorer from open play in the league (only one of his goals coming from a set piece).
we've scored more goals this season than for a long time, lost fewer games, achieved over 70 points for the second time in three seasons (how many times did we achieve that under the previous regime?)
which teams exactly play more aggressive, attacking football than us? one with a manager of 20 years, and far bigger spending capacity over that period. and another who while spending less has not won as much as rafa from a much stronger base. anyone else?
when rafa took over we were the fourth team in the league by some distance (and had struggled to fifth in the season before that), had just lost owen and heskey, and were trying to play a counter-attacking game with aging and injured players. arsenal had won the league in record-breaking fashion, chelsea had just found their sugar daddy, and united had dominated the english game for fifteen years and were spending more than ever before on individual players. that kind of defecit doesn't get turned over in the blink of an eye. the fact that we've competed with and in some cases out-performed these teams in the last 4 years has made people lose sight of where we really were.