And Otamendi. Not good enough.
We have one top class defender, Vincent K.
Stones if he was 25 rather than early 20's would not be good enough, but he has shown enough to indicate that he can become a top player, but purely down to the fact he is young, so great games follow bad & vice versa. Right now, he isn't a top class defender. Otamendi is proven average or below.
But irrespective, imo tonight was the best we have ever played in the Champs Lg, apart from the errors. By a long long way. The plan worked, the individuals didn't. We have had better defenders struggle worse due to shit setup. Tonight, was purely poor individual play.
We are outplaying pretty much every team we face, but are getting 'done' by nothing goals. Which is kind of how some of us would have expected tbf, but the start threw us into believing some players are better than they are. These are not unstoppable goals, they are not due to tactical or numerical or physical superiority, they are complete fuck ups. One after another. We have often stopped the difficult stuff & let in the stoppable.
Tonight the keeper joined in, again, but he wasn't to blame for the first or the third or the 4th or the pen, or responsible for the chance where a simple pass to Suarez right through the middle of our back 4 was enough to create a full on scoring chance which he saved, brilliantly. It's shit defending, largely by average or below average players, who are good one minute & shite the next. That goes in, which it will 8 times out of 10, & it's 2-0 without Bravo's fuckup. They also mised a free header prior to that due to nobody tracking a runer at a set piece, same move as Celtic but central.
All this whilst City are at least equal, maybe better in general play. It's shit defending, largely by average or below average defenders, who are good one minute & shite the next but have no instict for danger or acceleration to stamp it out. Which is why they are average defenders.
Barca's were just as bad tbf. Dogshit. Swap Silva for Messi & we win. But we don't have Messi, so we have to be better than Barca at the back. They have an advantage.
Barca did nothing to really merit a 2-0 by comparison to us & Celtic did nothing, to merit 2 goals, nor Everton a point etc
We are playing great football though, undermined by defensive mistakes & shite final ball.
Solving just one or the other, will win us the Prem. Solve both & we probably win everything inclusing the Champs League.
Solve neither & we will win fuck all.
And by the way folks, in the Celtic thread, I was right.
Our defending, is shit.
But we'll still win the league imo.
