The Perfect Pitch

0 to 10th minute: Good football, it’s easy to see why Fulham are down at the bottom. Deserved goal. Should have been 3-0 up.

11th to 77th minute: Lazy, complacent, half-hearted play (except for Adebayor, he never stopped giving 100%), mixed with some good stuff and chances that should have been put away. If we continue to play like this, we’ll concede and waste all the good effort we’ve put in already (all 10 minutes of it).

78th minute: They equalise. What a surprise. Wrong decision by Lehmann- he’s been doing a lot of that recently.

79th to 90th minute: We finally start playing some football again, and guess what, we score 2 goals. Now wouldn’t it have been nicer to have scored 3 and then become lazy/complacent/half-hearted, rather than the other way around. If we have scored more goals a bit earlier, at least the “fans” that left around the 82nd minute could have enjoyed a couple of more goals.

A good 3 points, but we really should have finished them off in the first half, or at least earlier in the second half. This whole lazy/complacent/half-hearted, mixed with “the fear” (of being the one to give away the ball, and to cause us to concede, and hence to play well within oneself and not try anything too difficult), meant that we always makes it harder on ourselves. Some players also let their heads drop after missing a few chances - the old Arsenal team used to miss tons of chances as well, but they would never stopped trying just because they feel sorry for themselves. Plus the lack of noise really doesn’t help things either.

The end of the season is near, we’ll take points off Chelsea next week and end their title hopes. My other predictions includes us getting 3rd, Liverpool winning the Champions League, Chelsea winning nothing from now on, and Tottenham getting 7th place. It’s not what I want (apart from us finishing 3rd), but that’s my prediction anyway. Don’t ask me now how I came up with this prediction, but I might tell you about my prediction system if I’m right.

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