by Snowball »
03 Apr 2018 09:32
Stranded Snowball
How can you say we didn't fluke our win when we had just one shot on target
in the whole game, against the other side's 27 shots, at least five on target, at least 11 blocks?
I am THRILLED we won, but very easily we could have lost that by three goals
It's almost as if, and bear with me here, that we are a team short of confidence and the new manager focussed on making us hard to beat. We started pretty quickly and scored and then understandably withdrew a bit and tried to stay solid. I can't remember too many chances where I felt QPR should have scored and as said Mannone only had 2 real saves to make.
The stats really don't tell the story. I'm sure we've had games we've lost or drawn whilst having 20 shots but if the defense are resolute and only allowing those from 20 yards out in desperation, you would have the wrong picture of the game.
As for blocks, doesn't that simply show bad game management from QPR. Taking on a shot with a very low chance of success as there was a defender able to block it?
Reasonable points, but some of our blocks were superb, and 1% different and each might have been a shot
on target. IMO (and yes, only an opinion) if we played the same again we'd lose by at least two goals.
We just weren't getting those blocks in before this game (big difference) so, arguably, "we were better".
I would prefer to say we were easy to cut open, time and again, but our fighting spirit
(who knew?) turned shots into blocks. I counted 11 just from our back four
QPR were and are, IMO, a very good side, better than Derby, for example, and their big win Monday suggests that.