Bournemouth (A) - Sat 25th Feb, 17:30 | Pre-Match Thread

[Tangled up in blue.]

To be fair, we played with good intensity in parts of the last 2 games, especially first half of the games. In the forest game we created a lot of chances and played some direct football. We just couldn’t put chances away.

In the Leipzig game, we started really well and were direct but often couldn’t get the final ball right

So we can do it and sometimes do. The problem in some games is it seems we relax too much when we take the lead, the intensity seems to drop and we let teams back into it. We seen it in the Everton game, the last two games and even the game against the rags to a degree, even though we got shafted by bent officials.

I’m not sure why, it’s clearly a mentality thing too, it’s becoming too common for it not to be.

That's it. We take the lead then we just seem to stop the intensity thinking that's it job done. Once you do that it's hard to pick it up again

 

[Semper aggressus]

That's it. We take the lead then we just seem to stop the intensity thinking that's it job done. Once you do that it's hard to pick it up again

As this has cost us a lot of points this season I don’t understand why Pep hasn’t drilled into them not to relax after going 1-0 up. Even the players must realise now we can’t afford to do that.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Attack, Attack,
Attack, Attack, Attack!

Pre-match, Pep should tell everyone to shut up and pay attention then just write that^ on the board in the changing rooms and walk out.

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

As this has cost us a lot of points this season I don’t understand why Pep hasn’t drilled into them not to relax after going 1-0 up. Even the players must realise now we can’t afford to do that.

Exactly

 

[Deleted member 77198]

That's it. We take the lead then we just seem to stop the intensity thinking that's it job done. Once you do that it's hard to pick it up again

Happens all the time that. When we scored at United we started playing strangely (after a good start to the second half that saw us take the lead), giving the ball away and not winning the ball back like we did before the goal.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

For comparison to last year at the same time, just out of interest.


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Not just in the stats but in the quality of our football has reduced by about that much as well. Can see it with our eyes, everything seems less good than last season.

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

There's a lot of people predicting a high scoring game for us, 6. 5 .4 I'll be happy if we can somehow manage to score 2 without conceding

 

[yankblue]

Just saw we are wearing the shit bumblebee kit so this feels like a loss

 

[TFC]

I say we sideways and backwards pass these fuckers to death. 47 shots, hit the post and bar 17 times, 5 blatant penalties turned down. 3-0 Bournemouth.

 

[kaz7]

Just saw we are wearing the shit bumblebee kit so this feels like a loss

it is not a lucky shirt for sure