Our team has no left back no right back plus project players!
At moment we have Donno O’Reily Gonzales Doku Haaland the rest are passive who are great when we are possession team!
I’m no ignoring it, it’s been happening all season and all last season. Tends to happen when you don’t actually have a settled midfield or defence.I think cause most people can't ignore the obvious. We were fantastic in the final third and it was great to watch. However, our defending and midfield was a car crash again and you just can't ignore that moving forward.
Some were, not plenty. Like I said the complaints weren't about the possession, it was what we did with it.I know it's difficult for you that anyone dares criticise the team, Pep, performances etc. but it's not the end of the world.Then you weren't looking. Plenty over the past 3 years moaning at how boring it was to watch City and something needed to change. Plenty wanting Pep to leave because of it.
When you break it down, it's only 2 centre-backs holding the back line together that can not be right
Nunes and O’Reilly makes so many mistakes, in a way it's not their fault and the blame has to lie at Pep's door.
The right back when we had Walker was key to everything with his pace and he covered the whole pitch in a flash
Also, what is this turning your back on shots when defending ?? looks ugly and lacks commitment
Even Kova would have made a differenceAit-Nouri is unlikely to improve us defensively unless it's part of a plan to move O'Reilly into midfield. I am not too worried as we took off Gonzalez at 5-1 and we have Rodri coming back soon (fingers crossed).
O'Reilly does not make many mistakes, and Nunes is super quick.When you break it down, it's only 2 centre-backs holding the back line together that can not be right
Nunes and O’Reilly makes so many mistakes, in a way it's not their fault and the blame has to lie at Pep's door.
The right back when we had Walker was key to everything with his pace and he covered the whole pitch in a flash
Also, what is this turning your back on shots when defending ?? looks ugly and lacks commitment
Fulham didn't deserve to be 3-0 down and would have been completely disheartened if we'd got to Half Time without that silly mistake
Some were, not plenty. Like I said the complaints weren't about the possession, it was what we did with it.I know it's difficult for you that anyone dares criticise the team, Pep, performances etc. but it's not the end of the world.
Totally weird game and having now recovered from a long coach journey and sleep all over the place, I've had time to reflect
Fulham didn't deserve to be 3-0 down and would have been completely disheartened if we'd got to Half Time without that silly mistake
Similarly there was so much time remaining at 5-1 that we just needed to run the clock down and take some minutes out of the game.
However that's where we miss Rodri
So much doesn't happen when he's there.
We don't lose possession in silly areas
We don't take the ball down blind alleys.
We don't concede as many set pieces
We don't look vulnerable when defending set pieces
We don't panic
Yeh probably mate it just seemed that they almost always attacked their left and nunes despite not being a defender and having a brain fart a game has been doing reasonably well. Tbh I think I expect too much after seeing us dominate the league for so long.May I suggest you look at the 2-minute clip on the OS - Fulham's second half goals came from OUR left side - Nunes doesn't play on that side so perhaps the criticism should be levelled at O'Reilly
My mate's auntie's cousin's friend works as a cleaner for Pep and she said she was speaking to him about it last night and apparently everyone else in his FPL mini league had triple City defence.Three points and five goals, fucking fantastic!
But wtf is wrong with us, letting them almost snatch a point from 5-1 down? Concentration? Fitness?
Could have been a 5-8 scoreline!
Perhaps this is the game where Pep starts to seriously consider two DMs. We have to get control of the middle when the momentum shifts. It does naturally during a game, but this season I've noticed long periods of the team being stressed and under the pump. A couple of years ago the opposition would have a two/three minute spell of having a go, and we'd quickly administer a slap around the chops. Not anymore.
But a win's a win. Well done fellas.
Yep, loved the match. Pacing around the front room like it was a cup final game. Fair play to Fulham.That was fucking mint!!!!!
Nunes is a problem. He makes horrible decisions in proper head scratching moments. We'd just gone 3-0 up and 2 minutes to half time. Rather than clear the ball up the pitch and give us a moment to get our shape he tries to control it out of the air and beat 2 players. Loses it and they score. He has the potential to be a really good player and just when you think he's proving he can be one he drops a bollock that usually costs us a goal.O'Reilly does not make many mistakes, and Nunes is super quick.
Isn't the more obvious explanation that we are missing Rodri and that last night the goals started to go into our net after we took off our defensive midfielder?
Hitherto, our defensive record was decent, but we rarely have control of games for 90 minutes. We have a tendency to play for 45 minutes. I can't really explain why that is.
I've not seen it since, but didn't Donnarumma make a fantastic save at 1-0?I have to disagree with that, they could easily have been 5-0 down we butchered a lot of chances and were cutting through them at will for large parts of the half.