I am watching Levante - Barca but can't really concentrate.
(And in this moment Barca's big players Messi and Neymar deliver, but horrible pen by Messi
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We had such an easy start and all we have is 5 points. At this rate we won't get anything against a half decent team.
Now let's have a look at our rivals:
Chelsea and City will probably finish way above us anyway. Still, both had mid week games, with City's being even harder away at Bayern. Still 4 days later both look so fresh and much better against the strongest team in the league, even more impressive with City with 10 men.
Arsenal playing a difficult away game at Dortmund, but still winning their PL game 4 days later.
Liverpool have been as bad as us, but at least they have the excuse of a midweek game and an average squad
Everton and Spurs both lost, but they have a really good excuse with the EL games on Thursday
But what about us? Yeah new manager, new players, but again, we couldn't have have had an easier start even if we wanted.
We will improve as we hardly can get any worse, but no excuse will be tolerated by the board if we don't manage top 4 with all that money spent. And to be honest, I wouldn't even be comfortable with playing a play-off game due to getting 4th as with our squad you just don't know what you'll get. So we actually need to get 3rd.
All in all it's really annoying that we couldn't take advantage in a week when our rivals played CL/EL games AND we faced a promoted team.