No coincidence that we have beaten the better sides at home compared to the poorer sides away as the home crowd help us as do those better sides focussing on their own game whereas Newcastle/Palace/Fulham set up to counter our style.
Just lip service that...only Palace set up to counter our style out of them 3 sides and they were completely outplayed. Even Hodgson admittedly they got the luck they needed to get a result but fair play to them, they got the point.
The other 2 didn’t set up to counter us in anyway. We just didn’t play to our own standard in anyway for the whole game at Fulham something I’m sure we’ll learn from and the way we played at Palace indicated we did.
Newcastle, well if they tried to counter us it certainly didn’t work. They got mullered for an hour and only the fact that we switched off and bottled it whilst once they started slinging long balls at us for the last half hour meant they got a result. Again, fair play to them but they never got a result cause they set up to counter us. It was more down to us not playing the style we have so well.