Big positives against really weak teams. Expected wins, but apart from the first 30 minutes against Southampton we were quite good.
I wish we could play League 1 teams and newly promoted teams who can't score every week.
We don't though.
Next 6 is: Palace (A), Spurs (H), Villa (A), Brentford (H), West Ham (A) and Chelsea (H). All teams we should beat or be better than if we want to compete for top 4. We're already trailing the top by 6 points, the top 4 by 3 points and sitting 10th in the league. We'll probably need at least 4 wins from that run (preferably with no losses) to still have something to play for in the league this season. Throw in Twente, Fenerbahce, Porto and PAOK in that period as well, which should also be at least 3 wins + a decent performance in Portugal. That run will be a lot more telling and important than yesterdays destruction of a League 1 team.
Do we believe ETH has that in him? I'll be over the moon if sit top 4 in the League and top of our group in the EL come mid November, but somehow I strongly doubt it. That's where we should now be to be fair, and that's setting the bar pretty low.
He should have been gone last season, he should have been gone after Brighton, he should have been gone after Liverpool, but he's still here and probably will be at least untill we only have Cup to play for....the spiral continues.