Ouch. That sums up the month of October. All the illusions of grandeur have quickly vanished as we find ourselves struggling. Reality has reared its ugly head as we just experienced our first winless month. We lost three league games and only managed to draw once. Nobody blew us away, but you can tell that team morale is starting to turn for the worse. Couple that with an untimely injury to one of our starting strikers (who is out for a month) and you have a recipe for a disastrous month.
That said, we're still sitting in the upper end of the table. We're 3 points behind 4th place Valencia and the final Champions League slot, we lead 6th place Athletic on goal differential, and we're 2 points ahead of 7th place Levante who are in the final EURO League slot.
The one positive note for the month is that we did manage a sound 4-2 victory over Osasuna in the first leg of our matchup in the Spanish Cup. We will travel away in the upcoming month with a very strong chance to advance to the 5th round.
As mentioned earlier, with our starting poacher out for a month I need to find someone to pick up the scoring and I need to find him fast. We can't afford to try and win games defensively because that isn't something we do well right now.
