Bournemouth (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Citycity76]

Nevermind all the injuries, the big question is how many points has Noel Gallagher and his mate got ???

 

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We’ve not been at our best for weeks but we have managed to get over the line, the spurs defeat in midweek was on the cards and today was always gonna be difficult so no shame in getting beat. It’s the way we respond and the games before the international break are not easy. We move on together and some of our fans need to stop this entitlement of winning every game, we have had a tremendous run which most fans will never be able to comprehend.

We are always poor either side of a Champions League match and an International game in the period up to Christmas. Don’t know why but we are always better in the new year. I expect the same this time. We can still win silverware this season.

 

[sky blue planet]

Bad day at the office for sure, seems like the cartels fake narrative about our club and the premier leagues charges have had the intended effect.
The club have been so preoccupied with the legal jeopardy they have taken their eyes off the ball, failure to see the imminent ending of the greatest cycle in premier league history, a reluctance to invest in players for fear of fueling the fake narrative.
The uncertainty, financial and potential penalties have stymied us, just as the cartel intended.

 

[Blue2202]

How many of them were fully fit? We were not good today. It's not excuse, fact!

Just today? We haven't been good for weeks, we've scraped past bottom sides in a very unconvincing fashion and today got what was coming to us.

What is the purpose of the academy if unfit 'senior' players are being selected over the younger guys? We make a big deal over academy products but only two players in phil and rico have been trusted by pep in 9 years with many others let go and flourishing elsewhere.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

It showed

It looked like it… played like he was drunk

And so it looked

Fucking bloke doesn't train for nearly 3 weeks Pep throws him in and you want to dig him out.

Seems fair....

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I think VAR were found wanting today. That challenge on Earl could easy have been given as reckless and out of control.

 

[Crooked_rain]

I like to see the running stats of Bernardo.
The lad never stops.
I don't think he's on the slide at all.
Foden's form so far is more worrying for me.
It seems a world away from his brilliant best of last season.
But like alot in our squad I just think they're knackered with all the games over the last few years

Cool, he can be a marathon runner then.

He's not producing anywhere near the quality he used to on a regular basis. Last season he was under par also.

If he's not on the slide then it's something else but whatever it is, he doesn't seem like the player he was. I'll never knock his effort.

 

[nellyonthewing]

Losing a game is by the by . The trend of our performances has been worrying since April.
The past 4 great years are now history.
We are not entitled to win anything we don’t earn this Season .
We failed to replenish the squad with quality befitting the a club in Europes top 3 . Do the club want to continue at the pinnacle or sit on our laurels and bask in the warmth of our great record of success.

 

[Keeper!]

An ageing team that looks weary and lacking pace and energy.

I would never write this team off but I will be stunned if we end up with any titles this season.

A major refresh needed in the next two windows, no excuses go and get the players we desperately need.

 

[Father Paul]

Like everyone else, I hope it’s a blip, but today it felt like a passing.

It exposed Gundo, it showed how old some players were, even though they’ve still got the occasional game in them, and it showed how the “modern approach” to the high speed counterattack…WHICH IS HOW THE REST OF THE WORLD IS PLAYING FOOTBALL NOW…is death to us.

I LITERALLY called for a loss today and even said it would come down our right side and be a cross in behind us. I can’t remember the last time I thought we would lose a game?!

It’s been coming and the injury situation has only exacerbated it. The Spurs game showed how frail we look and Bournemouth no-names went to town on us.

This is structural and strategic, not tactical. Structurally, we have not spent the money on, or the time to cultivate, the players we were clearly going to need to start filling holes that were developing.

You saw them developing, I’m sure, last season, and nothing was done to start addressing those issues. A free Gundo felt like a great little stop gap measure, but he’s currently being asked to be Prime Gundo and he just doesn’t have it in him anymore…and the flashes of it are getting fewer and further in between.

KDB certainly has brilliance in him, but for both club and country, we are seeing it less and less.

Phil Foden clearly has some personal demons/issues he’s trying to get over, because he’s a pale imitation of the POTY we saw last year. He could have won the game today, but his shots were wayward and he needed too many touches at other times.

Kova was always seen as a back up midfielder, yet has become pivotal (no pun intended) to us not being literally over run in every game. I thought he was superb today in a game where we got battered in midfield, so that felt like a big waste!

Bernardo? Love him to death! But, not only did he never have pace, but he’s lost a step, so if you’re a defender you just need to keep him in front of you because he’s going nowhere…yet he’s a WINGER for us, who steps into a second 6 role late in games to shore up the midfield when we take the old, tired fuckers off!

And then we have the likes of Grealish, who divides opinion worse than Trump, but seems to laugh off his own mediocrity. Or Walker, whose domestic woes are only bested by his on field woes, which tells you just how bad his season is going. His contribution to games was always “catch the rabbit that runs in behind” but that’s been laid to rest by multiple players this season, and it is not like his “positional sense” was ever going to get him out of a wet paper bag, let alone a football match where he’s getting toasted. If I see one more push or arse bump or bend when he’s supposed to go up for a ball or ease it out of play, I’ll scream!

So far this season, it’s looking like Gvardiol is our POTY. Think about that and what it says about who we are so far this season…

Sadly a lot of what you say is probably true.