Pep is complicit with his team selection and tactics which the players didn’t appear to have confidence in RAN with so few appearances and he plays him RB An inexperienced defence playing high line with no MF protection same as Saturday etcInjuries, inexperience, low confidence and a bad attitude were more relevant. And bad luck. Sometimes everything that can go wrong does go wrong in a game. We invited the defeat on ourselves by not treating the game seriously. We played like Man Utd do with airs and graces and came a cropper and were too weak to put it right. Our title winning sides sometimes started games on the wrong foot but had enough quality to turn games around. This side was unbalanced. It was not Pep's fault.
Add bernardo to the fake pressGlad it’s not just me who has noticed the ‘fake’ press especially by Foden.
And that of course is absolute fucking nonsense from SherwoodApparently, Tim Sherwood said on Sky that Rodri looked like he wasn’t happy and was trying to get himself sent off.
And in the mean timeEnrique is leaving PSG at the end of the summer
Dont get your hopes upAnd there was me hoping that Saturday past was the low point of this season. Although we failed to find the onion bag, at least we created a few chances tonight.
It must be difficult for our players to cross the road because they seem afraid to put a cross into the box. The amount of times we get into a good crossing position with players in the box but recycle it sideways or backwards is beginning to do my nut in. The few crosses that were put in tonight caused problems but we had the opportunity to put many more in.Yep. Great post written after thinking about what we’ve been seeing over the past year or so. It’s going nowhere this tippy tappy stuff. What’s Linders and Toure doing? Thought they might have had a bit more influence. And our corners are probably the worst in the league.
Surely this is the low point. With Guehy in defence on Saturday I’m expecting 3 points and a turnaround in our performances going forward.
Up the Blues!
If we don’t beat wolves with Semenyo, Guehi, Nico, Bernardo and Nunes back.. and Marmoush in so we actually play with 11 men… I honestly don’t know where we’d go from thereDont get your hopes up
Wolves up next
Yep, it's a real messPep is complicit with his team selection and tactics which the players didn’t appear to have confidence in RAN with so few appearances and he plays him RB An inexperienced defence playing high line with no MF protection same as Saturday etc
Is it down to the lake i fearIf we don’t beat wolves with Semenyo, Guehi, Nico, Bernardo and Nunes back.. and Marmoush in so we actually play with 11 men… I honestly don’t know where we’d go from there
Foden's corners are shite...too short on Saturday n too long tonight. Does anyone know what one arm or two arms held up actually mean ? Cherkki's are a bit more quality but fuck me as a pro footballer they have to put it on the money. They must practise 50+ a dayIt must be difficult for our players to cross the road because they seem afraid to put a cross into the box. The amount of times we get into a good crossing position with players in the box but recycle it sideways or backwards is beginning to do my nut in. The few crosses that were put in tonight caused problems but we had the opportunity to put many more in.
Our delivery from corners is utter wank compared to arsenal. Theirs come in with pace, a good height, inswinging and bang on the money. Ours are floated in and not accurate more often than not. When we actually take a decent corner we are dangerous but how often do we take a decent corner? About one in five at best.
Just put us out of our misery and get knocked out. We’ve got absolutely zero chance of winning it so save us more humiliation, time and money .. and just fuck it offJust had a look at tomorrow’s fixtures and the final group fixtures. We’re in a bit of bother. If tomorrow’s results go as expected, we will be down to 13th!!! Level on points with PSG in 8th but with a far lesser goal difference. So let’s say we beat Gala. PSG v Newcastle is the only game involving those above us so we’d go above one of those. Atalanta have Union away. 50/50 that one. Real have benfica away but they’ll be allowed to win that no problem. Dipper have Quarabag at home, easy win. Athletico have Bodo at home so they’ll win that. Spurs have Frankfurt (who are having a shocker) away so 50/50 there. Chelsea’s have Napoli away. Hoping for a Napoli win there. Barca have Copenhagen at home so no help there. And Sporting have a poor Athletic away so favouring Sporting there. So if we say realistically Chelsea loose, one of PSG or Newcastle loose (a draw would be brilliant), and one of the 50/50’s go our way (preferably spurs loosing or drawing) That would put us in 10th. Then it would be a goals difference battle between us (+4) Barca (+4) and Sporting (+5) for the final spot - and that’s only giving them a 1 goal win tomoz. Not looking good at all in that scenario. Our g/d is screwing us. So we need a couple of big shocks tomorrow night or I recon we are buggered.
Tomorrow Atlanta have Athletic at home, Athletico have Gala away, dippers Marseille away, Newcastle PSV at home, Chelsea have Pafos at home and Barca have Slavia P away. Not holding out much hope for any of those. Just hoping Slavia can keep it down to one or two.
Basically after all that drivel - we’re pretty fucked and it looks like a play off.
Just put us out of our misery and get knocked out. We’ve got absolutely zero chance of winning it so save us more humiliation, time and money .. and just fuck it off
A corner is made dangerous by the players getting to the ball first without being bullied out of it by the defence.It must be difficult for our players to cross the road because they seem afraid to put a cross into the box. The amount of times we get into a good crossing position with players in the box but recycle it sideways or backwards is beginning to do my nut in. The few crosses that were put in tonight caused problems but we had the opportunity to put many more in.
Our delivery from corners is utter wank compared to arsenal. Theirs come in with pace, a good height, inswinging and bang on the money. Ours are floated in and not accurate more often than not. When we actually take a decent corner we are dangerous but how often do we take a decent corner? About one in five at best.
You are not fooling anyone here.Might be slightly heretical to some but Pep's record with us given the resources available to him has been piss pour
It's important to get as far as we can to earn money so we can buy players that aren't good enough or Pep can mismanageJust put us out of our misery and get knocked out. We’ve got absolutely zero chance of winning it so save us more humiliation, time and money .. and just fuck it off
Been saying this for months. Put pace on the ball, miss the first defender and aim for some bugger with heading skills. Even the rags manage it with McGuire. The best corner taker in recent times we had was Tommy Doyle.Foden's corners are shite...too short on Saturday n too long tonight. Does anyone know what one arm or two arms held up actually mean ? Cherkki's are a bit more quality but fuck me as a pro footballer they have to put it on the money. They must practise 50+ a day
Tommy Doyle was brilliant at it !Been saying this for months. Put pace on the ball, miss the first defender and aim for some bugger with heading skills. Even the rags manage it with McGuire. The best corner taker in recent times we had was Tommy Doyle.