We lost it in midfield. We lost it with a smarty pants defence. We also lost it by having a one dimensional strategy.Good performance. One defensive error from Fernandinho. Thought we looked a lot more solid with Kompany there, but CFC were very much safety first.
Once again we look blunt up front. Aguero is too slow now. KDB wasn't great. Delph played well
Well if you're satisfied with the shite this season then more fool you.
A few drama queens on here
fantastic player, but a little snide. spurs dont need to sell and would therefore cost us £70 million plus. not worth it imoYou need beaming up
They are the same heartless and cynical bunch that didn't need too much adapting, and were woeful, or worse than what we had been, last season (barring the signings of Kante, Luiz and Alonso).
He played out wide right and on the inside right tonight and had a shocker bar a few decent dead balls, he needs dropped. Problem is with Gundogan out there's nobody to bring in.De Brunye is wasted playing in CM. He needs to play out wide where he will have more space and be able to use his crossing to maximum effect. He's been utter shite in CM for a while now.
I thought KDB should have gone to the right after 60 mins. Navas offered nothing.Got what i expected to be honest with that fu*kwit Dean in charge. Kante should have been off and sideshow bob should have had at least a yellow for the off the ball challenges that BT sport failed to even mention.
Delph surprised me and did well as did Komps.
Pains me to say it but I really dont want to see Kev in a starting line up for the rest of the season. Gave the ball away again far too much and always seems to shy away from 50/50 tackles. Seems a shadow of the player from last season. Cannot remember the last time he did a surging run at the defence.
Positive is that bar the rags and maybe leicester rest of the matches should be easier so top 4 i think is still on.
Haha! Some bloke off the Internet saying one of the most decorated managers in football is "thick as pigshit" cheers you up on nights like this.Because your average manager (and probably Pep) is thick as pig shit. Most football managers were ex players and most ex players have limited education. Stupid as it sounds I wonder if ex players make the best managers - it's whether playing the game at that high a level evens out for being dumb as toast.
Sorry mate but I am sick of spending a fortune flying round the country to watch slow boring build up play that patently doesn't work. And don't just say "don't go then" I have been going 35 years and whilst we are in such a lucky position compared to most of that we are not making he most of it. Pep has no different tactics. They had no interest in attacking second half so we keep all our defenders and defensive midfielders on - why?How much to get rid of your whiny arse for the night?
We haven't got a great squad. Delph, Navas, Clichy, Caballero and Fernandinho wouldn't be starting for a team with a 'great squad'. He's made some errors has Pep (the keeper one has killed us), but generally speaking, we create a tonne of chances and don't concede too many clear cut ones. We are just so poor in both boxes and defensively it's so clearly a personnel issue that we are going to have to give him the benefit of the doubt until next season.We haven't got a terrible squad. We've got a great squad which lacks desire and determination.
It's not about ability, it's that not winning doesn't hurt us enough.
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Conti hasn't got a bunch of geriatric playing week in week out or has to play against 12 he has had referees on there side all season and the main one was at our place!
Realistically we need a minimum of:
_ 1x goalie (£25m)
- 3x full backs (3x £20m)
- 2x centre backs (2x £40m)
- 2x midfielders (2x £30m)
- 2x forwards (3 if Sergio goes) (2/3x £50m)
Total of about £325-375m as a minimum and means recruiting 10 or 11 players and that's not accounting for the players we have to get rid of.
Does anybody have the confidence in Txiki to achieve this. I don't.
Next season could be another one of those "next year Rodders we'll be millionaires" type like this one is.
top postI'm struggling to get my head around a fair bit of what is being written here. It's obviously frustrating that we lost, all the more so coming on the back of essentially tossing two points away at Arsenal. But the performance today was far better. First half, some of the football was excellent, and we were cutting through their lines almost at will. Conte was obviously worried about it, hence why he brought Matic on. But we played into their hands by gifting them two goals through poor individual mistakes (as ever).
Once they managed to get in at half-time ahead (undeservedly) and make the sub, it was always going to be difficult in the second half as they just dropped deep, closed off any space behind and tried to keep us at bay. And it's something they're fucking good at- it's one of the reasons they've been pissing the league since Autumn. The idea that we should be able to carve them open at will when they're playing like that is unrealistic. And yet we did still create opportunities - Fernandinho missed a gilt-edged chance, Stones did too, and had a clear header he should have done better with, Vinny hit the bar, and Aguero had the chance at the end. That's five good/very good chances in a single half against the top side in the country, away from home, when they're just set up to defend. And it leaves aside the other 'half' chances where we got in, put balls acroos the box but they were dealt with through good defending.
So the criticism today seems a bit misplaced to me. There was nothing naive about the way we played - had we been more 'pragmatic', defended deeper, stuck Fernando in midfield to 'shore things up' etc., there's still every chance that Willy would have been called on to try to save a simple shot straight at him, or Fernandinho to judge a tackle in the box. No system is ever going to stop that.
You could perhaps argue that he might have made the subs earlier. That's fair enough. But we were well on top, and there was fuck all space for Sterling to try and run into anyway. So I can understand why you would want to keep on those players who can produce something from in front of their defence - i.e. Silva, De Bruyne.
Shit, even the criticism of our set-pieces, which is usually warranted, wasn't tonight - three of our chances in the second half all came directly from corners or free-kicks.
Yes - but they were ones we missed it easy for keeper. I agree we had more chances - what I meant was we didn't make the keeper work enough and that's the frustrationSaved one from Kun, we hit the bar, Stones chance whilst Kompany was being dragged down are just a few chances, plus Aguero first half, Fernandinho first half.
Sorry mate but I am sick of spending a fortune flying round the country to watch slow boring build up play that patently doesn't work. And don't just say "don't go then" I have been going 35 years and whilst we are in such a lucky position compared to most of that we are not making he most of it. Pep has no different tactics. They had no interest in attacking second half so we keep all our defenders and defensive midfielders on - why?
What, you mean a defender trying to block a shot? Who'd of thought it eh? Who's delp?Right so kompany was partly responsible for the first goal a delp did fuck all of note in the game other than play for the first time in ages, very complicated stuff