Watched the game again this morning......yeah i know i am a sadist.
Not going to go on about that abomination of a goal that was allowed to stand. It changed the game.
Still.......It was evident to me watching that first half again. We were playing well within our selves. The focus being on Ball retention and obsessively keeping possession. Nullifying the Rags threat. Players always passing to the side, and back. Watch Bernado closely he sees Haaland run after a quick pass, zero interest from Bernado backwards goes the pass.
That is not accident. This is the team being sent out by the manager purely to focus on getting to half time 0-0 and go on from there second half. Wasting a full half playing slow, dull, insipid robotic football. It is awful football, cowardly as well. Unbelievably We were playing with fear to contain the Rags.
Many would rather blame the players than the manager.
How are they supposed to to change the game when Pep is obsessed more with retaining possession at all costs ?.Look at the players faces when they make a shit pass,they look terrified, they are playing with anxiety rather than flair.
2 games with virtually zero shots on goal, is both incredible, and criminal, given our talent..
Why even bother playing Haaland if the game plan is to simply grind out first half defensively against a shit Rag side who only threat is Trashford.That was there only threat, and he couldn't even nullify that.
Then we finish the game with a World Cup winning striker Alvarez still sat on the Bench.
It is like Pep sulks, and becomes incapable of thinking logically when it is not going his way. It is not a one off either. Every Champions League campaign ends the same way.
I am worried he is unravelling, and a few players have had enough playing his style.
We need to up our game against Spurs or another defeat is nailed on.
