What were our teams when we beat Plymouth and Portsmouth comfortably?

[The Lone Gunman]

Granted, but they played some great stuff Dave.
We recently lost to a piss poor Luton, whose away form was dire.

That game against Portsmouth was a strange one. 2-0 up after 13 minutes thanks a poor own goal and a scrambled effort from a corner. City played well enough in that game to win it but I didn't think we were brilliant. It was just one of those games where we got an early bit of luck, pressed home our advantage and Pompey were unable to recover.

We went into that game against Portsmouth level on points with them - 8 each. The win lifted us to 19th on 11 points. The teams below us at that stage included Millwall, Coventry and QPR.

I'm pretty sure the highest we've been in the table at any stage this season is 17th after the fortunate victory over Norwich on 02/11/2024. After that win were on 15 points, ahead of sides including Sheffield Wednesday, Preston and QPR. But to say we didn't push on from there is an understatement.

In my opinion, people tend to get hung up over the first six terrible games under Bulut (and seven games if you include the 4-1 defeat at Hull under Riza), but the fact is that we'd moved up to 17th by early-November and had a comfortable cushion over the likes of QPR and Pompey in particular. But that wasn't maintained because this team and its manager hasn't been good enough.