the keeper was fully expecting it but i refuse to blame a player for missing a pen, it can happen to anyone. we needed to avoid getting there but once kdb and haaland were subbed off our attack vanished
each year theres a new hot take based on euro competitions. Last year it was the "the italian are back, two years before it was "the english teams are way too stacked", this year someway, somehow it will be "the bundesliga is actually good". Its just random stuff, cup competitions are like that
the cb free roaming up the pitch experience has ended, thats for sure, akanji left huge holes that madrid luckily wasnt sharp enough to exploit. Pep needs to figure out some new tricks, like using Haaland effectively
drawing away vs top opposition is good enough generally but for some reason we cant beat them at home this season, while last year we were kinda demolishing them at the ethiad
for real, he struggled to make simple reads. an average foden is probably enough to see us through. its his time though, gotta show up and prove hes the man
i dont know why people keep pilling on, without service he is ineffective but much of it is by design, pep wants him in the box. I thought we tried to get him crosses in the first half but they were either too short or too long.
Ideally we should have more specific plays to feed him but the...
yeah, pep would burn 3 players publicly to protect himself...no way. The fact is that the team is runing on fumes after two long seasons where the recruitment was by and large subpar. You can blame pep on him not playing young guys enough but unfortunately he picked that annoying veteran coach...
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