Brentford (H) | Post-Match Thread

[SamTheGuru]

I'd rather see a young lad make an honest mistake while trying his best than an International acting like a shithouse, but hey ho.

Rico would have been eaten alive today.

 

[TheBlueCat]

No one is saying sell him, but it seems he is immune from criticism, a defender makes a mistake and it leads to a goal they are slaughtered and it is deemed their job, de bruyne lost out to a challenge that led to the winner, again its all on the defenders, one person slating akanji said it is his job to win headers so akanjo gets slated, I point out its haalands job to score goals and he didn't today, but no blame on him, a the blame seeks to fall on the defenders

It’s not a case of blame but nobody can argue that Haaland was good today. He was dog shit. Let’s hope it was a fitness thing..

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Not much of a break for 16 of them Why is philips going?

 

[FantasyIreland]

Statistics and football should never be mentioned in the same breath, let the stats stay with cricket and the sh1t Yank sports.

Can you send Pep that email? ta

 

[paulchapo]

Toney was excellent today. Fantastic movement. Fuck site better than our number nine today. That’s just a fact.

We can't knock Haaland's goal scoring record but he has areas he can improve on days like today. He needs to improve his physicality and heading ability. When he's well shackled he has to start disrupting defences and opening space up for others.

 

[paulchapo]

I could be wrong but I thought Pep hauled Cancelo off for that ridiculous dive.

Well it ultimately cost is.

 

[chaddblue]

Hope they all enjoy their time in the sun,playing for their beloved countries,fucking wank the lot of them today

All I want from the WC is for England, Portugal and Spain to crash out on the group phase in humiliating fashion

Want our players back early, fit, not burnt out and angry

 

[simon23]

No one is saying sell him, but it seems he is immune from criticism, a defender makes a mistake and it leads to a goal they are slaughtered and it is deemed their job, de bruyne lost out to a challenge that led to the winner, again its all on the defenders, one person slating akanji said it is his job to win headers so akanjo gets slated, I point out its haalands job to score goals and he didn't today, but no blame on him, a the blame seeks to fall on the defenders

you could blame him if he missed chances and good chances....but he had zero service today. corsses were appaling, no through balls - he basically wasnt even feeding on scraps...he got nothing....

He had two players marking him in the area every time and the other players around him failed to take advantage of that.

 

[Tony - MCFC]

Dismal performance, worst of the season in terms of a collective display.

Ederson and Bern aside, everyone else was way below the level.

No arguments on result but the refs/VAR yet again absolutely disgraceful.

Cancelo dive embarrassing although he wasn’t getting a shot off imo anyway as someone was getting across but doesn’t change fact it’s pitiful.

Gundo v slow, Akanji clearly had his head at the WC.

Haaland very frustrated with his teammates and who can blame him.

Bad result, awful performance. Pressure on when we get back.

 

[bert38]

Just got home. We were dogshit from start to finish.

Slow, narrow, unbalanaced, shite passing, no movement, nothing..

ps Hasn't Dias played up against Toney in the games before? Second half I'm not sure we even tried to defend against him.

 

[hobbsisablue]

We can't knock Haaland's goal scoring record but he has areas he can improve on days like today. He needs to improve his physicality and heading ability. When he's well shackled he has to start disrupting defences and opening space up for others.

What? Improve his heading ability so he can reach crosses which are 3 feet over his head?

 

[meeesh]

All I want from the WC is for England, Portugal and Spain to crash out on the group phase in humiliating fashion

Want our players back early, fit, not burnt out and angry

I'd love that too,but we both know that ain't happening

 

[Chippy_boy]

You could see we were not at it in the first 5 minutes couldn't you. I have rarely if ever seen us pass the ball about so lazily and with so little pace or urgency. It was like we were ready to go in, with 85 minutes left to play.

 

[chaddblue]

I'd love that too,but we both know that ain't happening

Ok.. as early as possible

 

[paulchapo]

What? Improve his heading ability so he can reach crosses which are 3 feet over his head?

Yes, I'm not talking about the crosses but battling for the ball when it's played long to him.

 

[bondsman]

You could see we were not at it in the first 5 minutes couldn't you. I have rarely if ever seen us pass the ball about so lazily and with so little pace or urgency. It was like we were ready to go in, with 85 minutes left to play.

Why didn’t pep change it? That’s the frustrating thing for me. Laporte and Rodri did okay. Bernie worked hard. Eddie motm but rest very poor. It was crying out to be changed and pep waited til there was 15 to go to make one sub.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Fair play to Brentford they had a game plan and it worked for them. They could have scored more than they did. They defended well too.

We were not at the races today. No idea why Pep didn't use more subs to freshen it up as quite a few were well off the pace.

Lost count of the amount of shit crosses into their box that were either to no one or were easily headed away by their defenders.

Bad day at the office, we move on. Congrats to Brentford though.

 

[bondsman]

Well it ultimately cost is.

Not sure it did. Cancelo was awful all game. His ridiculous challenge led to the free kick they scored from.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

I actually think we’re better with Alvarez up front. He’s more mobile and always looking for the ball and get involved in any passage of okay. With our slow build up I’m worried we’re not going to be able to play to Haalands strengths which in involves open spaces and quick counter attacking play. Today was just awful but it was the type of result that was coming.

Not Haaland's fault that Gundo couldn't simply score when Haaland placed the one touch pass for him. Also Alvarez took too long before giving that pass to Haaland. It all came down to the little things that we failed to do today.

 

[Sir peace frog]

we got it badly wrong, brentford got it spot on, win the second balls, we didn't do that , bad day at the office and hopefully lessons learnt.