Expect us to be top at Christmas

What we really need is the impossible - a replacement/alternative for Pablo for the times he's not able to play.

No doubt we'll see a flurry of activity in the January window...

I disagree about us not playing well. Just from this season - Bristol, Stoke, Derby, Preston were all very good performances. The worry is the lack of goals and the inability to turn those very good performances into comfortable wins. Bristol and Stoke aside, we've not been putting teams away when we are on top.

Last season we had Klich and Pablo in double figures. Well Klich doesn't pose any goal threat whatsoever at the moment, Pablo is obviously injured, and the other midfielders don't score enough.

Pressure is all on Bamford or Nketiah to score and if they don't, we struggle to make our superiority pay.

Think we have been creating more chances than we were last season. With the exception of the last couple of games.

Bamfords confidence has been the difference between us being where we are and 6 points clear.

I look at who will come back into the side; Pablo, Forshaw, Roberts, Cooper and think they will improve the side massively between them.
And the run of fixtures we have is much more favourable than the the run we have played so far.

Favourable run of fixtures? How many times has this been said. We are playing teams who have not won for 8 or more games so surely we must beat them. Our form this calendar year shows that for teams on bad runs we are the ideal opponents!
As has been stated our lack of goal threat from midfield or wingers means all the onus is on the lone striker and defences can deal with that quite comfortably.
Something needs to radically change if we want to get promoted

comment by tslufc (U12903)
posted 33 minutes ago
Favourable run of fixtures? How many times has this been said. We are playing teams who have not won for 8 or more games so surely we must beat them. Our form this calendar year shows that for teams on bad runs we are the ideal opponents!
As has been stated our lack of goal threat from midfield or wingers means all the onus is on the lone striker and defences can deal with that quite comfortably.
Something needs to radically change if we want to get promoted
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How true! 👍

I don't think we're as good as we think we are. Its certainly high possession football but its not champagne football like last season. I think we've weakened this season performance wise and personnel. Our best player this season has been a centre back for example.

Its certainly high possession football but its not champagne football like last season
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I think a lot of people are looking back on last season and remembering only the Derby games, Stoke, Norwich away. We had results we ground out as well and a lot of tight games like this season.

Results during the 7 game winning streak:
2-0 Bristol (red card turned the game)
1-0 Reading (last minute penalty save)
1-0 Sheffield United (goalkeeping mistake led to winner)
2-1 QPR (went 1 nil down and questionable penalty was the winner)
1-0 Bolton (late winner from Bamford)
3-2 Aston Villa (2 nil down)
3-2 Blackburn (2-1 down at 89 minutes)

All 7 of those games were tight and could have gone a different way.

Fact is we dominate the majority of games, restrict opposition to few chances and create a number of good chances each game.

Roofe handball versus forest too

This league is so unpredictable. I see Hudds haven’t lost in their last 5 games. Could they do a Norwich? Stranger things have happened!

I said at the beginning of this month that we would do well to be top six by the start of November. The fact is that we are well positioned, despite being without our preferred midfield. We have played top teams home and away and we have been dominant in most games. It is frustrating not to do better - it always is - but we have a big chance to step on the pedal over the next 2 months. Let's see what's in the tank.