Burnley (A) Post Match Thread

[eyalluvitt]

Shame we haven't got anyone to come on for Sergio when he is having a Jarvis Cocker like today , tiny squad and its getting smaller by the week.

 

[christened at st marks]

It's not Sterlings fault he played in a position he is hopeless in, I just hope his head is not fucked, if that chance had come on the right side the game would be won, 6 subs and we are having a holiday,

 

[Uwe's Legend]

Architects of our own downfall today. Decision making, final ball and finishing well below par. Some of our players need 3 and 4 touches before shooting instead of a first time finish when the opportunity presents itself.

Burnley didn't really deserve anything today but ultimately we got what we deserved.

 

[Ric]

For people watching streams shutting down the fucking match day thread is quite the spoiler, it really doesn't have to be shut 1 second after the final whistle, some folk are up to 5 minutes behind and those last few minutes are now wrecked.

Cheers btw

You’re right with this, it’s unnecessary. Maybe PM @Ric to see if he’ll allow the thread to stay open for a few more minutes to allow everyone to catch up and read the end of the thread.

The main reason we move it is to ease the load on the server, to try and prevent the site crashing straight after games.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Gundogan played well apart from in the box & then his legs went.

I thought Gundogan was inches off being absolutely brilliant.

 

[kippaxchris]

Sterling might have scored a lot of goals but fuck me he misses some chances.

Cost us the game

If he scored all the easy chances he misses he'd be a 70 goal a season player. I don't think he cost us the game though. Everybody in the stadium & watching on TV could see us getting dominated & that goal coming bar Pep. He could have brought on another defender, Sergio went missing again in the second half and should have been taken off & replaced with a midfielder or a defender. Pep is a fantastic manager & his tactics are brilliant but today he dropped us the 2 points not changing it up when we needed it.

 

[IWasHere]

Now for all the bitches whining about Diaz is good enough forget mahrez.. give the youth a chance... fact is they are not ready

This.

 

[Pastor Kidney]

And the next away game is Arsenal !

Yep great and they’ve just signed one of our long term targets in Aubameyang

 

[Franknorgrovesnephew]

His build up play was very good again which is something Pep wants....

didnt have a real chance at all in front of goal (sterling got in his way for the one in the second half)

Sterling, Ilky and B. Silva all worse especially the first two.

Diaz out of his depth really,how was that in 15 minutes then ??

 

[Damanino]

Not converting your chances is going to punish you, thats what happened today again.

After 1-0 up we had other great chances but we missed all of them, most of them were blocked shots or just weak shots that didnt trouble their keeper. Sterling missed the biggest of them, awful miss which gave Burnley extra motivation for sure.

We have hardly any options to change the top 3 which is criminal I blame Txiki for having only 2 strikers in a 25 man squad. Thats not enough. Just because Alexis or Mahrez deal he couldnt get doesnt mean a cheaper option couldnt have been done even only on loan for six months. Fucking hell even a 40 year old David Villa on lon for 3 months is a better option imo than 6 subs on the bench.

Diaz today had hardly any good touches he is young without experience. For next two-three weeks he is our only option from bench. What if Kun gets an injury too tho? Luckily this season he avoided injuries compared to last two seasons.