Yankee_Jack
Key Player
Note what the commentator said .... SHOULD HAVE WON COMFORTABLY. But we didn't. 1-0 and having to defend a corner in the dying minutes with a keeper who has no stomach for a cross is not comfortable. I am pessimistic because our tempo was low. We were at times sloppy. Into the final minutes McB failed to carry the ball into the corner flag and Ipswich took the ball down the field and forced a corner ... not smart on our part, nor professional, nor comfortable. We should have spent the last two minutes of the match camped near the corner flag at their end of the field.According to Suffolk Sports Radio commentators Swans should have won comfortably. The second half was much better.
Why are you so pessimistic @Yankee_Jack ? We are 10th with a game in hand and only five points off play-off places.
We should have buried this game in the first half. We should have played at a much higher tempo. We shouldn't have fucked around with Oli playing the lamppost on the left wing and James playing #9 and Routs not really having a role. We had nobody up top to receive and hold the ball. It was as if Potter walked into the locker room before the game and asked the players to sort it out among themselves.
This is why we are 10th when we should be in the playoff positions already and gunning for home advantage. This is why QPR gave us a lesson the other week and Rotherham gave us a much tougher game than it should have been ... we didn't seem to learn much from either match.
In other words, against better opposition we could easily have ended the match with nothing.