Dire game, the goal post probably still ringing from all the times we hit. But we got three points.
Dire? We won, we're top of the league, 5 goals were scored, what more do you want?
It wasnt a dire game because we won, it wasn't a dire game because we scored 3 goals. It was a dire game because for large portions we didn't play like a side that has any composure. Surman passed the ball to their strikers under little pressure at least three times and rufer kicked someone in the back of the legs in the box. That was just some of the examples of sloppiness. A game can be dire if win.
It wasn't dire though, 3 points and 3 goals disqualifies it from that. Dire is what we were to finish last season, or under Kalezic.
The fact that people are calling small moments of sloppiness that were addressed within the 90 minutes "dire" is a clear indication of how far we've come and how much standards have been raised this season.