{"id":5984,"date":"2022-04-09T17:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2022-04-14T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:00:45","slug":"we-were-but-cold-chips-abandoned-on-the-strand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/?p=5984","title":{"rendered":"We were but cold chips abandoned on the strand."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/C61D1C47-BEA8-4611-97A7-57E89FECAEAD-1017x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5990\" width=\"490\" height=\"492\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We were a poor side who lost to the Seagulls 1-2, and they certainly deserved their win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They beat us both halves.  In a game of fine margins we were off the edge of the page.  Per Baff\u2019s preview we couldn\u2019t get going absent Partey in the engine room and with Xhaka at left back.  Add a strangely subdued M\u00f8 and an ineffective ESR\/Saka and you have the makings of a cold, sandy pile of chips. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would have been proud of both their goals.  M\u00f8 hit the bar from a late freekick, then Eddie did the same on the rebound just before M\u00f8\u2019s deflected strike beat Sanchez.  The VAR-killed Gabi goal just before halftime was a farce, but again, fine margins.  Four_minutes.neq.Clear_and_Obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that was the game.  We had 4th in our own hands, now suddenly we look rudderless and thinner than ever.  If we manage to get into Europe at all from now it will be by the thinnest of\u2026margins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mikel has some serious work to do, and the team need to look to the last eight minutes of this game and ask themselves why they didn\u2019t play with that vigor from the off.  Our season now threatens to end in an ugly way.  We have a week to contemplate that and figure out a solution before we travel to next week\u2019s game on the South coast.  Hopefully we won\u2019t leave ourselves abandoned on the sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were a poor side who lost to the Seagulls 1-2, and they certainly deserved their win. They beat us both halves. In a game of fine margins we were off the edge of the page. Per Baff\u2019s preview we couldn\u2019t get going absent Partey in the engine room and with Xhaka at left back. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}