None of those have a prime..Conte not wasting any time in getting that squad playing well.
Not Pep's fault.
Txiki and co had a huge plan to bring in Pep but has allowed the squad to have bad players in Otamendi, Clichy, Kolarov, Fernando, Navas etc, hasn't shifted players passed their prime and hasn't fixed problem areas like full backs and DM.
WHy? Yellow at best . Did he break sideshow bob's leg? did he break his ****?Kun should've been arrested for that challenge!!!!
A victory for nasty, cynical football.
How is that tackle not a red?
Anyway it wasn't even a tackle it was an assault
Has Kun got previous for avoiding games this time of year.
Did u watch the Game? Kev had a clean sight of goal before his awful miss. Aguero had one cleared off the line and one blocked by Cahill with the keeper beat. Going forward we were very good. Defensively we were shit.no we didnt
besides the KDB chance nothing we created was clear cut......theres all were and there goals were easy to score cause our defenders cannot defend....how much pressure on the players in any of the goals did our defencers place on the attacker......none for at least two of them and the first one ottomendi is easily beaten...
People need to face facts....the whole back line including the keeper are suspect to say the least...none of them can defend and we will get what we deserve this season if something isn't done about it
Otamendi was tasked with challenging Costa and he failed because his only way of doing this is over committing and diving in leaving the others exposed - nothing to do with Stones. Mangala is struggling in Spain in fact looks a real turkey and that debut against Costa aside he has been bobbins. Vinny unfortunately is made of glass which is why Pep wanted Bonnuci and Laporte in the summer. Costa was immense today but he was allowed to be by the way we marked him, oh for Mike Doyle or even Tommy Booth.Do you remember Kompany and Mangala dominating Costa twice? Fuck man they pocketed him with ease.
He made a few mistakes today. Otta and Kolo playing. Bravo playing ( sorry, but my wife asked who the dodgy keeper was on his debut and he has done nothing to suggest that he has been anything but an expensive mistake). He gets worse every game. He comes off his line when he should stay, is slow to come off his line when he should come Palace/Kompany) and never seems to get anything on shots.Shameful performance by Taylor - so biased it was untrue. He caused all the problems at the end by his handling of the game. Sky conveniently didn't point out Fabregas slapping Fernandinho so both should have gone. Could be a turning point because the club must now know it is us against the rest. Could galvanise us. We must replace Kolarov and Otamendi - our two self-appointed hard men who yet again do not know how to defend counter attacks and were both easily pushed off the ball by Costa. Pep needs to get to work now as I think his only mistake today was taking Sane off just as he was beginning to scare them - then he should have put Clichy at left back and got Kolarov who has zero pace at left wing.
Navas was one of our better players today, Fernando didn't even play, and if he had, we probably wouldn't have lost.Bravo,Ota,clichy,kolarov,fernando,navas,how many of them would get in another top 4 side? Prob none!! thats a big prob we've got
He made a few mistakes today. Otta and Kolo playing. Bravo playing ( sorry, but my wife asked who the dodgy keeper was on his debut and he has done nothing to suggest that he has been anything but an expensive mistake). He gets worse every game. He comes off his line when he should stay, is slow to come off his line when he should come Palace/Kompany) and never seems to get anything on shots.Shameful performance by Taylor - so biased it was untrue. He caused all the problems at the end by his handling of the game. Sky conveniently didn't point out Fabregas slapping Fernandinho so both should have gone. Could be a turning point because the club must now know it is us against the rest. Could galvanise us. We must replace Kolarov and Otamendi - our two self-appointed hard men who yet again do not know how to defend counter attacks and were both easily pushed off the ball by Costa. Pep needs to get to work now as I think his only mistake today was taking Sane off just as he was beginning to scare them - then he should have put Clichy at left back and got Kolarov who has zero pace at left wing.
On a lighter note, Silva was fucking brilliant.
And did you see Luiz scrape down Sergio leg at the corner, or is that ok with you
Agree. It was a logical sub though I thought but didnt work out.To be fair, the Clichy substitution was pretty poor.
Apart from that, I agree with you.