The back four isn’t title winning quality

If Dinho slots in well back there, he can be the leader we were lacking at Norwich.
 
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Not being critical, but did Pep say why Kevin didn't start ?

Doesn't matter, the team put out should have been able to handle and beat norwich.

We created chances but were not clinical, every shot pratically was aimed straight at krull, add to that both our centre backs had a mare, gifting two goals.

Kev not playing is an easy excuse, we had enough out there to win it, we failed and norwich played well.
 
It's pretty obvious why de Bruyne didn't start. He played for Belgium and we've got the CL and he's still coming back to full fitness.

Make or break now for Stones.
 
Doesn't matter, the team put out should have been able to handle and beat norwich.

We created chances but were not clinical, every shot pratically was aimed straight at krull, add to that both our centre backs had a mare, gifting two goals.

Kev not playing is an easy excuse, we had enough out there to win it, we failed and norwich played well.

Some of the comments about team selection have baffled me. We have a long journey and important game in mid-week, players returning from all over the place, and a long season to come: we need to rotate and nothing in the team suggested we should get beat.
 
This season teams are starting to target Zinchenko as the weak link. Stones and Otamendi can fill in with someone organising them alongside but the two together are an accident waiting to happen. Walker then starts panicking and trying to cover making him even more error prone. It's down to Pep to come up with the players and a system to tighten it up.
 
Nonsense. Stones is an England centre half. Otamendi is the Argentina centre half. Walker is the England right back. Zinco is a league winner. Mendy is on the way back and Cancelo is no doubt adjusting to our play. We dont even play a back 4 as a regular formation. OP is bollocks. It was a bad day that's all

England and Argentina aren’t blessed with top quality centre backs so that isn’t saying much. Besides Stones keeping out Smalling is no major achievement. The fact we don’t have a single leader who we can rely on is really worrying. Vinny and Eric were major reasons why we won the league under intense pressure from the dippers. Going into the season without either of them looks like it’s going to cause more problems than we ever imagined.
 

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