Confidence

comment by milkyboy (U12731)
posted 4 hours, 27 minutes ago
comment by Warwick (U13131)
posted 44 minutes ago

milkyboy - I agree with your statement about us rarely being outplayed over the season. However, the problem, particularly since Christmas, is that we seem able to 'outplay' teams without creating clear-cut chances. This is exacerbated if we concede first, as we're even less likely to break down a team that can sit back on a 1-0 lead.
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Yeh wouldn’t argue with that... but would add that we have still created enough fairly clear chances to have won most of those games. We missed sitters at Boro, still had good chances at qpr.

People would view our overall performances in a different light if we were converting. But agree in general, we need to make more of our posession AND be more clinical.

Let’s hope it starts tonight.
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I think there is an additional factor in not scoring goals, Milky. It affects self-belief throughout the team. If you are a defender and you are making runs to support the front line, you need to see some reward for your hard work, but time and time again, our great build-up play yields nothing. Does this give defenders the confidence to have a go themselves? Have a look at Douglas miss against QPR. He scored 5 or 6 goals last season for Wolves. Ayling's miss was just as bad. He tried something only Klich or Pablo can do and the ball flew wide.
You learn from those around you and when you have strikers who can't score, you are less likely to score. This begins to affect your overall play - you have to work twice as hard as your opponents to score a goal. Our defence is a worry. We have been close to full strength for about 5 weeks and we are shipping goals. If it wasn't for Casilla, we would have dropped points against Rotherham and Swansea too. Unfortunately, our self-belief, more than our football, is letting us down. A win tonight could change everything...

Agree on the confidence thing bielsa. It’s why sides go on bizarre winning and losing streaks... anxiety can creep into the players, they can start to hope somebody else will step up rather than them.

Not sure re the final point, Casilla has made a few decent saves and looked more assured in general the last couple of games, but the opponents keepers have made saves too! He’s hardly been bailing us out with worldly after worldly. Performances have slipped but we’re points down on where we deserve to be on performances since Christmas, not in credit.

We need Bamford to get in the scoresheet and hopefully a bit of confidence will run through the team. Fingers crossed!

comment by milkyboy (U12731)
posted 3 minutes ago
Agree on the confidence thing bielsa. It’s why sides go on bizarre winning and losing streaks... anxiety can creep into the players, they can start to hope somebody else will step up rather than them.

Not sure re the final point, Casilla has made a few decent saves and looked more assured in general the last couple of games, but the opponents keepers have made saves too! He’s hardly been bailing us out with worldly after worldly. Performances have slipped but we’re points down on where we deserve to be on performances since Christmas, not in credit.

We need Bamford to get in the scoresheet and hopefully a bit of confidence will run through the team. Fingers crossed!
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Casilla can be flappy, but he saved us with a worldly against Rotherham. His save against a point blank header with the sun in his eyes against Swansea (at 0-0) was a stunner, and he came out quickly against QPR to stop Wells from scoring. How many of those would BPF have got too?
Fingers and toes crossed. I think I've got arthritis.

I think the save made by bpf against qpr in the cup is the best save any of our keepers has made this season, he’s also made a number of reflex saves, which has never been his weakness. Answer is he might have saved all or none of them, and he might not have let one through his legs against Norwich etc etc. Not about whether he’s done better than bpf, he’s our keeper and I’m right behind him... it’s about whether we’ve been kept in these games by outstanding keeping. We haven’t. Even the Bolton keeper who kindly messed up alioski’s cross, made s bunch of quality saves before then.

Great half, just a little concerned that Ayling makes wrong decisions.

Casilla is improving every game

Wakey, happy?💛💙💛💙

Walking hard on

Now what do you think LIW?

I was glass half empty before this game. Just felt the momentum had gone. But, chuffing Nora, that was the hiding we've been threatening a few teams with. Hard to pick out individuals with such a complete team performance but I'd like to know what alioski has for breakfast. He makes a Jack Russell puppy look idle.