I'm just watching the football show on sky and I think they got it spot on. Basically Mendy taking up the wrong positions and being caught out by the pass and nobody at the back organising the defence. We had a rookie kid and someone who has been here five minutes as our central defence and it showed. Mendy is Mendy and is finished here as far as I'm concerned. Walker should know better, you just can't put hands on players in the box, especially with var, you get away with nothing. They said we have lost the spine of the team and we have, Kompany, Silva and no Aguero, all world class players.
I hope this centre half is the real deal but we still, after all this time, need a decent left back. We need a fast, intelligent holding midfield player. Fern is 35 now and Rodri is no replacement. Since I've watched him play I'm amazed we bought him for that position. Foden has great ability but he will take time to come anywhere near Silva if he ever does. Up front we can see how vital Aguero is to us.
So praying this centre half is the real deal we need a left back, holding midfield, creative midfield and a striker. Most of us have been saying this for a couple of seasons now and nine defeats last season and yesterday's hammering are making it blindingly obvious with each passing game. We thought we'd addressed some of these by signing Rodri and Mendy but they're way short of what we need.
Rodgers tried to make himself sound a tactical genius by saying they decided not to press the keeper, but he just did what most managers do, sit back, hit us on the break and overload on our glaring weak spot which is Mendy.
Pep actually saw our problem which has been alluded to by a few here, at 1-0 we didn't have to go pushing everyone forward for a second goal against a good counter attacking side. They stayed sat back even at 1-0 and drew us in knowing they'd eventually catch us on the break and it worked perfectly, aided by absolute stupid challenges for the three penalties.
When was the last time we conceded five at home? I remember Everton at Maine Road but after that I'm struggling.