Tomorrow is a key game and I think we as fans could be crucial

Jedi boro

Jedi boro

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Last week was well let’s be honest a complete horror show, but forget that as it’s gone now and now it’s all about tomorrow and Burnley.

As I said in the OP I think we as fans could be crucial tomorrow as we could very easily concede first as Burnley are a v good side and if this does happen we need to be positive and keep the faith throughout the 90 minutes. As Burnley will be looking to unsettle the crowd and hope that we get disgruntled and turn so we must be tight and positive.

Carrick has already shown in his short time here that he knows what this team is capable of and he knows how to get it out of them.
 
We just need to play our game and hopefully the fans play their part. I’m hoping we look back on tomorrows game as a season defining moment. A game where we all say “that’s when I knew we were going up, when we handled the pressure and hammered Burnley at home”.
 
Smogonsea said:
We just need to play our game and hopefully the fans play their part. I’m hoping we look back on tomorrows game as a season defining moment. A game where we all say “that’s when I knew we were going up, when we handled the pressure and hammered Burnley at home”.
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Similar to what we did to Sheff Utd at their place……we need that Boro to turn up tomorrow night…👍
 
exiledinboro said:
Any other team I think they can be caught on a bad day

Burnley in this division have looked a top team pretty much every time I've seen them
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Agreed they have been brilliant this season but to be fair, they didn't look all that against Sunderland recently, and that was with Sunderland missing their main attackers. If our front three can fire, they are there for the taking.
 
Think a slightly hostile atmosphere always helps. Leeds and burnley themselves have done it in the past to us.
 
exiledinboro said:
I can still picture their front 3 with Steffen playing out from the back a few months ago

Whatever happens happens. It's going to be a hard game
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Its funny but on the Sunderland match, the commentator said Burnley's goalkeeper had taken a bit of stick over the season for the very same things! :ROFLMAO: Must be a Man City thing! (though i've just noticed that he signed permanently, thought he was on loan too).
 
Good atmosphere's and big crowds for night matches at the Riverside don't usually do us any harm and I quite like been the underdog for a change.

The players have something to prove after last week's result.

The fans just have to give the tream not stop 100% unconditional support.

The recent win @ Sheffleld United showed we can beat the better teams, even when we give them a goal start.
 
Playing out from the keeper is the way both managers want to play to create opportunities, as fans whether you like it or not we need to accept that this is the way the manager is asking his team to play and support it through the good and the bad, we have scored some excellent goals in this manner and always conceded some shockers but this is part and parcel of football!
 
UTB70 said:
Think a slightly hostile atmosphere always helps. Leeds and burnley themselves have done it in the past to us.
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I used to wonder if there was a home advantage or the whole thing was phsycological and the crowd made no difference. The pandemic put paid to that notion. When there were no crowds the home team scored significantly less goals and took significantly less points at home than when crowds were present.

What muddied the waters a bit was that the referee changes his or her behaviour radically when there are no crowds, giving, significantly, more fouls and yellow/red cards to the home team when there is no crowd.

It's kinda sad to think that the biggest difference the crowd can make is influencing the referee.

The study was by leeds university if anyone wants to look it up.
 
whinneybanksaint said:
and im not confident about that, we have a softness about us. If things are going ok were good, but we cant tough it out.
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I can't agree with a single word of this. We have ground out results this season, we have come from behind so many times to win games. When a team loses a game, they have never managed to tough it out, not that the phrase means anything. It's subjective and completely unmeasurable.
 
I sort of see where i think whinneybanks is coming from. I think defensively we are a bit soft, we have conceded the most goals of anyone in the top ten. Clearly our open attacking style of play results in us playing risk and reward football and at times we are punished for over commitment, it is entertaining to watch and rewards to date outweighs the negatives.

My observations signal to me that when we do overcommit, we are susceptible to swift counter-attacks and are not great at set pieces as we occasionally switch off. We are probably a bit too ‘nice’ at times and could do with a bit more physicality when defending breakaways and set pieces. Our lack of height can be an issue at times. I think we seem particularly vulnerable when having just conceded, we seem to get very nervous and invite more pressure. See WBA, Huddersfield and Sheff Utd away. It takes us a little while to recover our composure and as such makes us look shaky, which emboldens the opposition.

Of course we generally do recover composure and often make our attacking superiority count, but we are far from displaying the right balance between attack and defence, although it is exciting to watch. We are a little like Keegan’s old Newcastle team in getting the balance right, but i’ve no doubt we will and with Fry at the back we seem more solid.
 
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