I have been of the opinion that we would stay up purely because there are 3 x teams worse than us but now i am not so sure.
We have had so many opportunities to kick on and start to build on a decent situation and we keep messing it up and i cant help but think eventually you run out of those chances and it will haunt us.
Pepe has to take some of the blame but the majority i still feel lies with the players, they have put in performances and results against Everton, Liverpool, Chelsea, Swansea away and yet the next game we just go to bits with performances and results against Villa, Palace, Fulham, Hull and now today, i imagine it must be very frustrating for Pepe as he must think after each positive we can build, but we dont, we go back again.
We dont seem to have any bottle and cant perform under pressure (swansea away excepted) we do okay against the sides we arent expected to but struggle against those we would hope too, today we were 2-0 up in 10 x minutes against 2nd from bottom, in what both sides have built up as a huge game all week, you would think Cardiff would of been on their knees, and what a platform for us to build on, yet soon as they scored i think most people knew they would equalise, sure enough they did, but even then we scored in injury time and that should of been another platform, a massive win, but we somehow messed it up again and i just eventually this will now cost us.
Today would of felt like a defeat for our players, yet for Cardiff it was probably like a win and for the pyschological blow it was to us, what a boost for them to kick on. My concern is we dont have any redeeming quality, we dont create or score much (today the exception), we concede goals every game, we arent organised and we arent out and out attack and we seem to have no bottle and a poor mentality and it summed that up today.
When you look at some of the rubbish at the bottom, Fulham, Cardiff, Villa, Norwich, Hull, Swansea, Palace, Sunderland, West Ham, Stoke although we still have some of those to play, reality is we have only beaten Swansea, Palace and Sunderland and i think if we played the latter two again i dont think we would.
One of the only positives is that the season is exciting in a perverse way and at least each game means something but i just think we are blowing too many chances to get momentum and it cant carry on.