Burnley (A) | Pre-Match Thread

[bluemc1]

3 points is all I want, IMO we can win the pretty much win the league if we win or next 6 games

 

[mancityvstoke]

so that means a perfectly good player can be verbally abused by his own fans!??

You disappoint me

You’re a match going blue and never heard blues slagging off players ?

 

[Chippy_boy]

3 points is all I want, IMO we can win the pretty much win the league if we win or next 6 games

I think the next 2 would be enough tbh. Would Liverpool claw back a 10 point deficit on us? I doubt it.

 

[mancityvstoke]

I think the next 2 would be enough tbh. Would Liverpool claw back a 10 point deficit on us? I doubt it.

That was said about us once [emoji12]

 

[bluemc1]

I think the next 2 would be enough tbh. Would Liverpool claw back a 10 point deficit on us? I doubt it.

I think the next 2 would be enough tbh. Would Liverpool claw back a 10 point deficit on us? I doubt it.

I’d take that as well :)

 

[lionheart]

Would happily take 4pts from the next two games.

 

[Chippy_boy]

That was said about us once [emoji12]

8 points tbf.

LIverpool are a far worse side right now than we are and they'd need to be 10+ points better than us in the remaining games. 4 games where we lose and they win, and none where they drop points and we don't.

Still, it's academic. We'll lose at Anfield as per and the gap will be 4 not 10. Oliver will see to it.

 

[If I die in the Kippax St]

I’ve got a feeling we’re going to batter Burnley 4 Or 5 nowt

I hope your right after the rag bastards winched in our goal difference. 3 pts first goal difference second. Would take a narrow win

 

[Grealish’s Shinpads]

You’re a match going blue and never heard blues slagging off players ?

Think some of the self-designated big blues on here who have this holier than thou attitude about slagging off players and think the club can do no wrong probably haven’t been to a game in years

 

[Tricky_Trev]

why make games harder though? we could easily drop points here. we nearly did last game . i'd feel better if we had a full squad to choose from, we are weaker right now so let's not make it worse .

Because if we played the best team endlessly, we’d run out of steam and end up dropping more points than we would from rotation. We have to take these risks to achieve unprecedented success. Make no mistake, Pep thinks we can win the lot this year, you can see it in his face. So he’s going for it. We need the entire squad to achieve that, and Feb is key.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I’ve got a feeling we’re going to batter Burnley 4 Or 5 nowt

I’m the opposite. I think we are due a 0-0 or 0-1 where we have 20 shots on goal and they have 2.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Because if we played the best team endlessly, we’d run out of steam and end up dropping more points than we would from rotation. We have to take these risks to achieve unprecedented success. Make no mistake, Pep thinks we can win the lot this year, you can see it in his face. So he’s going for it. We need the entire squad to achieve that, and Feb is key.

But also, and just as importantly, Pep doesn't sack off cup competitions that he respects just because he's going for the league. He wants it all. Rightly so.

 

[nellyonthewing]

My concern is that despite the results we are slowly regressing to that slow slow build up from the back. 20 meaningless passes whilst the opponent builds a defensive wall . Sometimes 20 minutes of no engagement goes by. It’s ok if a bit dull at times but it’s a risky strategy.

 

[The1nvisibleMan]

Need some goals tonight to push away from united on gd again

 

[hertsblue]

Full strength tonight incase Var is broken again against the Dippers and Oliver has his usual performance against us

 

[Jefferson Airplane]

Any chance Cancelo, Stones or Gundo get a full rest tonight? I ask because if they do, Jan fucking Bednarek comes into my fantasy team with his stinking -7.

 

[Shaelumstash]

I was talking about Ilkay Gundogan by the way, but was drawing parallels with the fact that a lot of the same muppets who slag off Riyadh Mahrez were slagging off Ilkay not so long ago

They were slagging off Gundogan because he’d been utter wank for 3 years.

He’s had a brilliant 3 months and is rightly getting plaudits for it.

Mahrez has been wank for the best part of 18 months. If he bucks his ideas up, he’ll get the plaudits too, if he deserves them.

 

[The Black Shed]

Win and clean sheet. That is all

 

[blueparrot]

My concern is that despite the results we are slowly regressing to that slow slow build up from the back. 20 meaningless passes whilst the opponent builds a defensive wall . Sometimes 20 minutes of no engagement goes by. It’s ok if a bit dull at times but it’s a risky strategy.

Maybe it’s because it’s a run of games against teams with the defensive wall already built, so it isn’t us allowing them to build it. Against west brom it was a shit wall. The Sheffield wall was a good wall, Burnley we’ll see. Our approach has neither changed or regressed.

 

[wolfie1988]

My concern is that despite the results we are slowly regressing to that slow slow build up from the back. 20 meaningless passes whilst the opponent builds a defensive wall . Sometimes 20 minutes of no engagement goes by. It’s ok if a bit dull at times but it’s a risky strategy.

I think you should take that Sheffield United game in isolation. They are a dog of a team to play against for anybody. Their flat back 5 makes it massively difficult to employ any width with any effectiveness. Plus, we managed to rest a few and took out one of ourmost creative players in Cancelo.

Prior to that, our attack has been just fine.