Bournemouth (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Jonas.shaffer]

Maybe because we didn’t have anyone else against Spurs??

We couldn't have played Simpson-Pusey at right back? I know a player making his debut out of position isn't ideal, but..

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Yes. We have been playing way too slow in the same set-up all season, devoid of creativity or urgency in midfield and inviting teams to counter us way too easily. Teams also braver in playing around our press these days on account of it not being there cause we are so slow centrally. Rodri is obviously a huge miss considering he is the beat holding midfielder on the planet, but other than him I don't see injuries as an excuse. Hopefully De Bruyne comes back with his creativity but he weren't puling up any trees before his injury.


Abysmal squad-building in the summer, a style of play that has been largely found out so far this season, a terrible balance in midfield that just doesn't work no it allmatter how many times he tries it and Pep for whatever reason not being proactive nor reactive at all in his game-management this season has way more do with our performance levels so far this season than injuries

Yep

Rodri provides the composure and his spacial awareness attracts opponents to the ball when they should be watching Foden etc

However Gundogan Walker and De Bruyne all peaked in recent seasons whilst Foden and Bernardo aren't really offering much, and aside from Rodri, and maybe Oscar Bobb, I don't see the return of the other injured players making that much of a difference in terms of a goal threat.

That's the really worrying aspect because you can pick any combination from Doku Savinho Grealish Lewis Kovacic Bernardo or Nunes (some of whom have been playing reasonably well) and they won't score 10 PL goals between them.

 

[meeesh]

This is the sort of game where we miss Alvarez

We miss not spending the money we got for him more like

 

[CC1]

We couldn't have played Simpson-Pusey at right back? I know a player making his debut out of position isn't ideal, but..

Answered your own question. OMG - imagine the criticism after the game on here if he had been picked - especially as we lost

 

[ProofMCFC]

There’s no such thing as an ITK. Everyone was raving about Gundy’s resigning & what’s Bruno got to do with this? Is he good enough for us?

Alright whatever you say. Everyone was raving about his signing including me so he could come on late in games to control and play cup games. But I didn’t expect that to be it and for him to literally be starting every game. Bruno is good enough for us, a lot of players at the minute would be an improvement in the middle surely that’s not up for debate?

 

[Alexia_Ko]

Yep

Rodri provides the composure and his spacial awareness attracts opponents to the ball when they should be watching Foden etc

However Gundogan Walker and De Bruyne all peaked in recent seasons whilst Foden and Bernardo aren't really offering much, and aside from Rodri, and maybe Oscar Bobb, I don't see the return of the other injured players making that much of a difference in terms of a goal threat.

That's the really worrying aspect because you can pick any combination from Doku Savinho Grealish Lewis Kovacic Bernardo or Nunes (some of whom have been playing reasonably well) and they won't score 10 PL goals between them.

In previous seasons at this point of the season, we weren't struggling with scoring goals, we were struggling with defending. This season we're struggling with both.

 

[CC1]

Alright whatever you say. Everyone was raving about his signing including me so he could come on late in games to control and play cup games. But I didn’t expect that to be it and for him to literally be starting every game. Bruno is good enough for us, a lot of players at the minute would be an improvement in the middle surely that’s not up for debate?

You think we’re doomed - I don’t.

 

[route46]

Why does he persist of a midfield 3 of Bernardo, Kovocic and Gundogen?
Much better when Foden is in there, he is the only player who can turn run and commit a defender from the centre.

 

[Jwoody19]

Shite performance and result but we’ve just gone 32 unbeaten. We had to lose at one point. Some serious doom and gloom going on in here you’d think we were losing every week. We’ll be fine.

 

[ProofMCFC]

You think we’re doomed - I don’t.

I don’t think we’re doomed, we have the only man in the dugout I would trust to rectify it. But some decisions have been really poor and imo the board are relying on pep to paper the cracks something of which the next manager will not be able to do.