I've had a brief flick through this thread and I have to say people are being a bit premature with the 'we're gonna win the league' talk.
It was a really exciting performance and I thoroughly enjoyed it but it's ultimately one game. Remember City's start last year? Remember Chelsea's? There's a really long way to go.
With that being said, it's great to see some positivity in here and if we continue to turn in these kinds of performances then we'll be up there.
I was confident on the day we signed Matic to be fair, but even I was surprised at how influential he was going to be. Reminds me of the impact a certain French fella had on the club way back when. It's understandable that you would play it safe given the circumstances, we have endured so many false dawns over the last few years, so many failures. And of course it is just one game. But what a game it was.
Honestly, I haven't witnessed a performance as dominant as that for years. Everything went right. You could see it in the players, they were accepting nothing less than an emphatic victory. We went in at half-time with a 1 goal lead, confident and in control of the game. Think back to last season, you would be forgiven for believing Jose would send the lads out in the second half under instruction to sit deep and defend the lead. But not today, Jose. Today was different. When the players came out in the second half they looked hungry, brimming with desire and desperate to show a statement of intent that the rest of the league would stand up and take notice of, and that's precisely what they did.
Clearly the ultimate goal this season is to win the league, the players attitude on show today is testiment to that fact. It's up for debate as to whether we achieve that goal, but what fills me with confidence is that the
players believe they can win it, and we haven't had that belief among the squad since the great man was running the show.