Why did we sit on a 2-1 lead against 10 men?

Chris_Boro said:
We literally got promoted being cautious and winning close games against our rivals 🙄
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very true, and this team are anything but cautious, I mean were the third top scorers in the league and about 14th best defence. Sounds like maybe we play too open usually
 
Have I missed something as it’s not figure skating we don’t get more points for artistic merit.

We won and as for goals then our GD is looking pretty healthy.

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Ex Footy Legs said:
That’s my only concern, cautious teams don’t get promoted or win close games against their rivals but fortunately we were playing against 10 men last night (!)
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I have to disagree.

The most dominant championship team in the last decade, Leicester, won the championship with 31 wins, 18 of which were by 1 goal. 3 more came by getting the 2 goal margin after the 85th minute. Grinding out tight games is exactly what the best teams do.

Even relatively weak champions like Fulham last year depend on their 1 goal victories. They had 7 of them: 21 points. Given they were only 8 points above 3rd place, you can see the importance of them.

They'd have gotten more points if they'd turned some of their draws into tight wins rather than going for big hits all the time
 
BoroMart said:
silly take mate, they might have been down to ten, but they still had decent ballers on the pitch, we gave them too much of a sniff to be honest. We should have just kept moving the ball not try and get a third. They were launching it long in the last 10, and at times because we were high pressing we were 3-vs-3, too risky already.

We won, get over it.

Think he will shuffle the pack again against Birmingham, we will have a day extra rest, plus we played vs 10 for half a match so less running. Watmore Forss, Hackney, Mowatt, Jones even Muniz could see game time with fairly fresh legs. Birmingham is a game for the taking and with our recent away form we are capable of it.
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Do we need to shuffle that much? After Mondays game our following run of fixtures is kind. No midweek fixtures until mid Feb.
 
TeaCider said:
The FA Cup may mess up the schedule if we or our opponents progress.
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Yes true but the likelihood is we go out next week (although I suspect Brighton may play a weakened team) and then we have a fairly clear run for over a month and even if Watford beat Reading away we will have a likely 2 week break!
 
Frozen Horse said:
I have to disagree.

The most dominant championship team in the last decade, Leicester, won the championship with 31 wins, 18 of which were by 1 goal. 3 more came by getting the 2 goal margin after the 85th minute. Grinding out tight games is exactly what the best teams do.

Even relatively weak champions like Fulham last year depend on their 1 goal victories. They had 7 of them: 21 points. Given they were only 8 points above 3rd place, you can see the importance of them.

They'd have gotten more points if they'd turned some of their draws into tight wins rather than going for big hits all the time
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It's always easy to look back through the retrospectoscope and conclude all sorts of things that maybe aren't true, based on historic league tables and stats.

How many of those single goal victories that Fulham achieved were down to them not settling for one point, and pushing for three points?

Teams who are promoted play attacking football, are nearly always the top scorers and win a lot of games. That was true for Fulham, as well as Leicester.
 
Zoophonic said:
Do we need to shuffle that much? After Mondays game our following run of fixtures is kind. No midweek fixtures until mid Feb.
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I'm not saying make all those changes, more that we have options to introduce some energy into the side
 
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