It's do or die in the next fortnight for me. Two weeks before our next game and we have two options for me. Get players out, back the manager and spend some money, or get rid of Martinez and try something new. Either way, somethings got to give because our stale start to the season is now turning into what feels like a nightmare to me. Smacks of 01/02 (okay-ish start fading away into having dis-interested players and struggling to get a point.) In our next six games in the league we have:
Palace (A) Draw
Liverpool (H) Win
Chelsea (A) Loss
Leicester (H) Win
Arsenal (A) Loss
Stoke (A) Draw
I honestly struggle to see how we'll get more than three points from those the way we are playing. After that we have 10 games left, and we could only have 26 points. Fancy a 'great escape' with the weak characters we have in the squad? I don't. We can play nice football and still press, like last season. We have nothing- we can't counter as teams are happy to sit back and wait for us to give them the ball. So annoyed it's unbelievable as all of the hard work we've done could be unravelling and we start back where we were at the end of the Walter Smith days. Players will not be hanging around (Eto'o and now by the looks of it Mirallas.)
Maybe this is kneejerk (I may feel different tomorrow) but right now I'm absolutely gutted as we have no cutting edge, and players that won't be motivated by a relegation struggle.