From turning the corner to the title being over - what's going on!

How many times this season have we looked like we can beat anyone and then in an instant struggle to win games?. It's so frustrating once again this season and Saturday against Fulham proved to me once again that when sides come to the Bridge and line up defensively, we struggle to break them down.

After the game AVB said:

"I think it's pretty difficult to be fair. A good December for us would have been six points from these two home games, but bearing in mind this draw – if the leading teams do their jobs – it'll be very difficult for us to win it.

You assess things as they are. There's no big drama in terms of how we look at things. But you have to be sufficiently real. The difference between us and the top will be big. We had reduced it to seven points recently, but 13 points [it is only 11] would be new for us.

That is the perspective we have to take at the moment: it's difficult. It's not impossible. You cannot say that. But we have to focus on our position at the moment and make a real assessment. Maybe the Premiership is over for us at the moment.

We had targeted the December fixtures as an ideal situation to find out what would happen. We continue to do that. There is always tension for you to get results in a massive club like this one. You have to be real. You cannot live under false expectations when the gap is this big."

(Source)
Let's be honest here, most of us thought the Premier League title dream was over after we lost at home to Arsenal and then Liverpool. OK, we picked up our form and ARE unbeaten in the last five league games but to draw at Wigan and then home to Fulham is something we never expected. We should be putting these teams to bed and winning these games easy!.

But as I have said all along, we need to earn the right to win the games and in those two we simply haven't earned that right. Whether it's down to team selection, substitutions, the manager himself of player performances the evidence is there for all to see.

We are now in a fight for third place in the League this season and after such high expectations from this season, again we have to settle for less for another season!.

KTBFFH

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