Bournemouth (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Withnail]

Would’ve been fucking criminal if we’d got anything out of that.

Shit. Backing out of tackles all over the pitch. Again.

It’s all too tepid. Slow. Bottleless. Boring.

As soon as Lewis came on, we upped it because he had the audacity to actually play the ball fucking quickly and with some urgency. Unlike the rest of them.

No fight in a lot of them for 83 minutes. Injuries? Fine. But that starting 11 should’ve been enough given Pep doesn’t make many subs anyway.

And don’t get me started on Walker. Christ.

At least the tarquins lost.

Kovacic and Gundogan in midfield is too slow, Rico should have started rather than Gundogan who has been poor for most of the season.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Erling hitting the post from two yards was sickening

 

[Blue2202]

Think gundo is getting some unfair stick. When he came back I don’t anticipate we thought he’d be starting every game. But needs must.

He was just as bad after the last international break having had a week or so off.
His legs like walkers have quite clearly gone unfortunately based on what we've seen from them this season.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

If phil or thor had done their job and scored at the end then that assist would have mattered a lot

If we’re playing that game, what if Bournemouth scored the 5 goals they deserved?

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Something tells me the players know Pep has made his decision.

 

[give it to gordon]

Running on empty. To many bloody games and meaningless internationals.
Makes it easier for teams without this commitment to up their game against us. We look tried physically and mentally

Four in a row going to be tough this season to get a 5th, but not impossible.

Dippers still on new manager bounce.

 

[wattle]

Anybody would think we were missing the best and most important player in the world! Hard to recover from that.

 

[Chak19]

I said it before, you can't constantly concede first and make comebacks and tonight we paid for it, if Haaland doesn't score it has to Stones or Gvardiol because the others can't hit a fucking barn door.

If Gundogan can't help with the scoring there is absolutely no point in him starting since he's a complete liability defensively, Foden can't find his shooting boots at the moment and the less said about Silva the better.

Defenisively we've been a shambles all season and it doesn't help with the constant changes to the backline, like why are Stones and Dias all of a sudden unavailable ? we desperately need a RB because Walker and Lewis can't defend for shit and every game there are goals from that side, at least Rico is young and will get better but Walker is just a meme at this point, and I mean Harry Maguire levels of meme, so we either need to buy a RB or maybe try Akanji there if the other CB's are fit.

I know injuries have killed us but some of the players have been out of it all season and they need to do far better.

 

[Double R]

That result has been coming for weeks.

Defence has been all over the place all season, cant keep conceding one or two goals each game and expect to get away with it.

Midfied is dull and ponderous in possesion. "Akanji, to Ake, back to Akanji, forward io Kovacic, back to Akanji, to Walker, now Kovatic, back to zzzzzzz"

While the likes of Gundog, Foden and Bernardo look like shodows of their former selves, and show very little signs of a goal or assist, and injuries has nothing to do with it, they have been poor all season.

Im hoping this is one of those early season blips we often get, but I have my doubts this time.

 

[roy.or.r]

Our next 3 games are tough. I didn’t realise that. Hopefully we get KDB back. Bournemouth were deserved winners unfortunately.