Match Thread | Fulham vs Man City (13/03/21)

[wattle]

He would be offside

He was born offside that lad

 

[James Morgan]

They play attractive football but are the most wasteful team in the league.

Yes and a good quality striker would stop some of the wastefulness as he’d be putting the ball in the net?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Does pep want to win this game or what

And the award for the daftest question so far goes to....

 

[Ric]

We look solid enough at the back, as you'd expect with three centre halves, but lacking creativity in the final third. Jesus is playing well, but Aguero and Torres look off the pace. Could do with Foden and Mahrez in the second half.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Thought it was ok in bits. Not as bad as I feared. I’m not sure what we learned though. Gabby playing well as us Bernardo. Hold it for 15 mins and then bring on the cavalry.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Some poor performances in a poor formation - he needs to change it at half time and put another player in midfield to get more control.

Mendy and Laporte look like an accident waiting to happen and the front three are offering very little.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Beam me up Scottie and down at Craven Cottage, there I shall put the thoughts into Marriner’s stupid fat bonce that Manchester City are allowed to have free kicks EVERY TIME they get fouled!!!

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Well Magnolia is so 1980's...go for Dutch Ivory

Dutch ivory is illegal over here.
You need to go to Amsterdam to smoke it.

 

[BlueBanger]

I was thinking during the Southampton game that we should play 3 at the back now we have 3 good centre backs and Cancelo would play wing back well.

I was wrong. Not really working.

It would work well if we played 2 strikers instead of 3 and had a man in the hole in the middle(kev). The problem is mendy and cancelo havent been finding the key passes in behind(wingback and wingers vs one fullback should make for easy balls in behind)...although cancelo has been by far the better out of the two.

 

[ctwrd]

Not new no. However I really am to it being this bad in comparison to our results. WTF is happening to our fan base on BM? Do we really think so little of this record breaking team that we must have 5-0 every game?

There is another team out there trying to stop us.

It’s a bit different to that.
A complete change in the setup that has served us all season has led to a 45 minute bore fest with no clear cut change or even a 5/10 minute phase of dominant attacking. Poor

 

[Cornish_Blue]

As I said pre-match, Fulham haven’t conceded more than 1 goal for a while. We had our chances to score, yet we can’t put them away. So often we are looking for another pass, instead of shooting. If pep isn’t going to change it, a point isn’t a bad result considering the team selection/formation.

 

[Goater=Legend]

Several times you can see Torres making a run in behind and the defends aren't bothering to find him.

There's space there but we either pick the wrong pass or the pass/Cross is a let down

 

[Deleted member 77198]

It’s not flapping to call out the fact that the selection led to utter dross

I haven’t flapped since Burnley away in 2018-19. I was all over the shop that day

 

[ninjamonkey]

Worked quite well overall. The front 3, particularly Torres have made some fantastic runs but nobody is even contemplating the pass other than cancelo. The defenders are dwelling on the ball too much for me, particularly Dias at the centre, this formation lends to a slightly quicker tempo than the usual slow build up we're used to, Dias and Rodri need to be passing it much more quickly and faster if we're to get enough chances to score.

Despite the good runs from torres, we're not using them and he's not doing much else, I'd get foden/kdb/mahrez on for him and after 10-15 minutes if the score remains the same then fling on gundogan for one of the defenders if we're still struggling to break through.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Is it a retro thing to bring on subs at HT? Pep and Pellers seemed to refuse subs until at least 70 minutes

He's got to do something or I'm putting the kettle on.

 

[Bigga]

Interesting, I think if anything we're too heavy in attack and the lack of midfield is leaving them isolated up there. No service or creativity.

Nah, he's fielding a Yaya eleven...

 

[eyalluvitt]

Nope and the ones he has have been belated decisions where he slowly raises the whistle to his mouth unwantingly. What a twat.

Yes, let’s so much go on our players & strangely slow giving us anything, well not strangely same as usual.

 

[super_city_si]

If Pep had gone with this formation as a prelude to European games we're in trouble. Dire from front to back.

A good team will murder us with all that space in midfield And down the channels.

 

[oakiecokie]

A truly shocking performance and by fuck Jesus you should feel embarrassed going down like a sack of shit after that mere touch on the face. Fucking mard arse.
At the moment weren`t not under a great deal of pressure but I worry like fuck when Fulham get down our left hand side and Mendy sleep walking.
Bernie looks like the only player who wants to win this game and is trying to take the game by the scruff of the neck but others need to pull their finger out.
Knee jerk ?? Possibly but we can play better than this.I`d happily settle for a draw right now which wouldn`t be a disaster.

 

[Kippax77]

Think Parker as said to Pep "don't beat us and you can have my fucking jacket"