- Feb 8, 2007
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I agree. Martial's penalty was 35 seconds in. Maybe they were just caught a little cold. That shouldn't be the case - they shouldn't gear up to play in the first few seconds of the match, but the last few seconds before the match. After that, with one or two exceptions, which'll happen in every game, we stifled them almost completely.I might be in the minority, but this week (from Newcastle) I have seen us generally defend much better. We barely conceded any efforts against them, nor Chelsea after they scored, Maccabi had (very good) pot shots from long range, United were restricted.
The clean sheet isn't far off. Penalties have cost us in that regard (or just really bloody good shots). I can see improvement game on game. Today especially. When we took the game from them there we NO silly passes at the back. Very, very few errors. We've been smashing it up top, but we're getting better at the back, too. Jose's tactics and work in training are coming into play.