Örebro, Spurs and Milan have all played at home this week and have managed to score a total tally of no less than seven goals. So a nine-point week, you may think? Nope. 2.
It is with a surreal feeling that I am more important to this world than I sometimes think that I from time to time see some sort of link in what my three companions are doing. Right now, that higher power that is only focussed on me has imposed "sloppy defending" on my teams. That's not so good.
Where did that all come from? OK, Milan deserved it. They played Soktratis in defense in front om the not so solid Amelia. But Spurs. Dawson, you better learn how to anticipate the runs of the Wilcots of this world, cuz they are faster than you!
And Örebro. Actually, that's where it all came from. That's how I annoyed that man in the sky. Örebro was first out this week, playing bottom team Gefle at home. Somewhere around the end of the first half, Gothenburg scored against Helsingborg. My and my fellow Örebro fans were sitting there complaining over the lack of speed in attack, but I noted that we are now the only team in allsvenskan with a clean sheet. It was a super-jinx. A super-jinx it was (that one is for you Sam).
Almebäck came out in the second half looking like he had been boozing hard at half time. Örebro started to score, but what does that help when Gefle were handed three chances on a silver plate and converted them all?
And so, last night, Spurs are playing electric attacking football for a full game. They scored three. They could have scored six or seven. They conceded three. They could have conceded 10. Gomes is at times the best keeper there is. But then he isn't. Cause the best keeper is he who makes no mistake. That is not the Gomes of spring 2011. I am afraid that is the main difference with Spurs in the spring of 2010. The finishing from van der Vaart and Huddlestone was clinical, but what does that help when sub-par defending probably cost us a new champions league spot?
Örebro plays Häcken tonight. Häcken in swedish means the bush (more or less, the kind that is planted in a garden) but for some reason that may be strange to non-natives it is also the nickname for one's behind. As good a reason as any to shape up the defense. We need three points or we are falling behind. I doubt it, though.
Since this article was borderline blasphemous, I end this with my best wishes for a happy Easter.
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