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The only way out of this mess is too add more power and tenacity in midfield. Pep is right about needing Ake or ait back. Unfair to throw oreilly into midfield as he needs to improve certain areas but the way we are playing, don’t look like we have any choice.

If it keeps sav out of the team then I’m all for it. Just hope the move doesn’t hinder oreillys progress.

Need steel in the middle. Maybe this move can achieve that.
 
youngbob said:
Bad as we were in that second half, Fulham scoring 4 goals from 0.90 xG is insane.
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I think this will be overlooked (perhaps rightly because we were very poor) but we have effectively gotten really unlucky to end up in that situation. It was like winning the goals conceded lottery.

The four shots Fulham scored from had a combined xG of 0.26 which is absolutely bizarre - that basically means the odds of them scoring all four of those shots was about 1 in 50,000.

Another day and the first one whistles past the post and we win 5-0.
 
BlueMonkey79 said:
Only team in the league that would give up a 5.1 lead.

This team is done.

Pep subs absolutely baffling.
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Another bellend of a comment. We've just gone second in a season that at the start had virtually all of you claiming we'd be lucky to make top six, and we've just scored 5 away from home and won the match. It might not have ended 5-1 but we didn't give anything up, a win is a win regardless of the score.
 
IrishBloodEnglishHeart said:
Hating? Bizarre when a player plays badly and fans point it out extremists scream the word "hate".

He's had a few bad matches - fans are allowed to point that out. He's paid millions to at least be able to run with the ball without falling over.
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Dont think he played any worse than a number of our players today.. yet hes the one who the flack comes to... previous games .. whole teams a sack of sh** and whos to blame savinho and bobb... these people with this mentality are the same people who were on at ederson every week. Just seems he will be the one to blame untill we force him out and then we will find someone else no doubt..
 
coolcity said:
Another bellend of a comment. We've just gone second in a season that at the start had virtually all of you claiming we'd be lucky to make top six, and we've just scored 5 away from home and won the match. It might not have ended 5-1 but we didn't give anything up, a win is a win regardless of the score.
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We're also only the second team to win at Fulham this season.
 
argyle said:
So did I. Made games less stressful.

We currently don't have the players to do it.
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That was my point about Pep being stubborn as you've mentioned regarding the players we currently have.

We don't have the players to play the possession based way anymore, so I think he needs to adjust and work on the team defensively out of possession.

With the way Peps playing style is normally, when we lose possession we have players all within short distances of eachother to win the ball back quickly, we can't do that anymore either because allt of our lads don't have the legs anymore.

So both possession based and our pressing game isn't what is was, so Pep needs to come up with fresh ideas of how to go about it. I think we can all agree we need to sort out the team defensively as its a complete mess.
 
Marvin. said:
Emotion. Fine divides in a crazy game. Kovacic and Rodri injured. And no replacement for Gonzalez. A new and young team (O'Reilly and Cherki). He was very animated.

A lesson for the future.

Foden is extraordinary and is back. Haaland is incredible. Or words to such effect.

Rodri will be back soon. He's thinking about O'Reilly at dm. Pep thinks Reijnders is more of an attacking midfielder.
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Cheers,let’s hope they don’t rush Rodri back in a panic over the state of our midfield and defence when Nico was withdrawn..
 
adaminho said:
You lot hating on savinho on this game needs to give your head a wobble... he was not the issue today.. winds me the fk up that its a if in doubt blame savinho mentality.. the guy doesnt deserve the hate..
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When you say "you lot" you are talking to a hell of a lot of fans on hear who think Savinhio is utter crap including me. Other than the rare decent cross I can see no good reason how he can be in this team. Nobody is blaming him for anything today specifically. They just dont want him anywhere near this squad.
 
SWPISHOME said:
I was getting pelters on here for the last two years saying he's absolutely shite, it's worse he's getting too.

Bang average centre back, Kyle Walker playing at right back made Dias look alot better than what he was as Walker gave him so much protection.

Truth be told, Dias is a complete fanny.
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Dias was class when he came as a no nonsense defender, then Pep tried to turn him into a ball playing midfielder.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
I think this will be overlooked (perhaps rightly because we were very poor) but we have effectively gotten really unlucky to end up in that situation. It was like winning the goals conceded lottery.

The four shots Fulham scored from had a combined xG of 0.26 which is absolutely bizarre - that basically means the odds of them scoring all four of those shots was about 1 in 50,000.

Another day and the first one whistles past the post and we win 5-0.
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Spot on, and it feels worse (for those who are in a flap about it anyway) because of the way the match v Leeds panned out, but everyone forgets the other team want to win as well. They're not just going to roll over because that lot want them too.
 
coolcity said:
Another bellend of a comment. We've just gone second in a season that at the start had virtually all of you claiming we'd be lucky to make top six, and we've just scored 5 away from home and won the match. It might not have ended 5-1 but we didn't give anything up, a win is a win regardless of the score.
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You criticised City after beating utd at home 3-0 so rein in your attacks on other fans due to your disappointment today.

I know you are very upset, but these things happen.
 
skillman said:
I don’t want shit on the side given we’re second but we tried to defend that lead today and realised we’re not good enough defensively but we also can’t hold onto the ball and kill a game that way anymore either.

Used to be able to keep the ball for 5/10 minutes and kill a game completely, not now.
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Dias was 'doing his fruit' after each Fulham goal, yet his defending was just as bad as the rest of them !
 
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