OB1
Well-Known Member
I've watched the game for a second time and it really is a crying shame that we came out of that game on the end of such a bad scoreline.
A few errors absolutely killed us. It's not even as if Barca did not make errors. Their keeper was a whisper away from gifting us a goal at the start of the game and for me struggled with his passing more than Bravo apart, of course, from the killer moment in the game. We did not make them pay for their errors but they crucified ours.
We had some of our most talented players KDB and Gundogan, for instance, make costly and unnecessary mistakes. The question is why did they make those mistakes and why has the team made so many fatal errors this season (not that it is a new phenomenon)? Is it a mentality thing? Is it a lack of concentration? Is it poor technique?
I've regularly over last few years questioned the mentality of the players but newer players like the aforementioned KDB and Gundogan made crap errors under not a huge amount of immediate pressure last night. Do we constantly buy bottlers?
A few errors absolutely killed us. It's not even as if Barca did not make errors. Their keeper was a whisper away from gifting us a goal at the start of the game and for me struggled with his passing more than Bravo apart, of course, from the killer moment in the game. We did not make them pay for their errors but they crucified ours.
We had some of our most talented players KDB and Gundogan, for instance, make costly and unnecessary mistakes. The question is why did they make those mistakes and why has the team made so many fatal errors this season (not that it is a new phenomenon)? Is it a mentality thing? Is it a lack of concentration? Is it poor technique?
I've regularly over last few years questioned the mentality of the players but newer players like the aforementioned KDB and Gundogan made crap errors under not a huge amount of immediate pressure last night. Do we constantly buy bottlers?