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Neville Kneville
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Get I get your coat for you, Mr Wonder?
He' s right imo, apart from individual shiteness at both ends. Fantastic approach play constantly getting through Chelsea's defence.
Unlikely another side will create half what we did even when beating them.
We have been finishing these chances for the past 5-6 years. Why the fuck we have suddenly started missing everything is a mystery.
But it doesn't take away the quality of our approach play.
What I would do for a prime Vincent Kompany right now!
Makes you appreciate how brilliant he has been for us at times.
Agreed, not just for his intelligence and general play, but a leader on the pitch, something we need badly right now. pep can only do so much from the touchline, we need a Kompany type player on the pitch
We've not looked solid since 2012.
Could you imagine us playing a game like the home derby of that season these days? A big game where we haven't gifted any chances and been in total control of things from the first minute to the last. When was the last time we played like that?
Our defensive recruitment has been criminal since then. Wasted so much money and haven't replaced peak Zabaleta, Kompany, Clichy. In front of them we've blown big cash on Fernando, Garcia and Rodwell. De Jong and Barry had their limitations but they laid a solid platform which hasn't been replaced at all.
We're a team built on sand.
Kompany is the main factor, I've said it before and will say it forever, he has been and still would be ( if kept fit ) the best defender in the world. Costa ain't getting a sniff with Kompany playing today.
simon23
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Not true; we conceded with the only 3 shots on target. We had Hazard under control all game (minus the last minute), Costa wasn't involved at all for 60 minutes.
Yes when we started chasing the game from 1-1 we were poor, but until then we hadn't been as bad at all.
It's an obvious weakness but to say they were bad for 95 minutes isn't true.
they could easily have had more.....the goals that they scored were so easy.....go back and look if there was nay pressure on the players scoring at any time........complared to when our players are attempting to score (an example was moses on Kun).The only one we really missed was the KDB one and he should have scored but they could have had more (Hazard chance in the first half, Costa in the secondd which one wide of the post......
our defenders are shambolic one on one which is unfortunately the way Pep requires them to play...he needs to change the plan or change the defenders against the better teams (and we cant change the defenders unfortunately at this present moment in time)
the_invisible_man
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Combination of missed chances, crap defending and dreadful refereeing lost us that. Sort one of the three out and we'd have won it
B\connellblue
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Seen far worse tackles than kuns. Reckless sure but straight red not for me. Pep should have sussed whats wrong at this stage. If he has, its time he did something about it.
WesthoughtonJohn
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Stones is already a quality Centre Half - the underlying problem is what he's having to play with.Don't be stupid - Stones is 22 for Gods sake. Agree to an extent with Otamendi because not only does he rarely dominate a big centre forward he has no clue about defending a counter attack based team. I would say the two biggest problems in our defence are Kolarov who gives no-one in the team confidence and I'm sick of seeing his face facing his own goal as a player who has run away from him scores, and Otamendi - Stones will be fine.
Scary at the end - Kolarov, Otamendi and Clichy at the back. 3 players we really should be moving on!
He was qualityI don't know how you saw that. I thought he was rank average personally, but clearly you're seeing something I am not.