Feyenoord (H) | CL | Post Match Thread

levets said:
He was never where he should have been, he’s struggling at the moment. Poor at Brighton, Poor v Spurs and poor tonight. However, not on his own. Gvardiol, Akanji, Ederson also poor.
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I think you're probably right. But I also think its the system. Where does he want Rico to play? In the middle, yes. But above Gundogan? Surely not. That's why Gundo's sub, from a system standpoint, was curious. You're basically taking off your 6 and replacing him with no one. Gvardiol should have been subbed off and Ake moved to the right.

I mean, I get it - Gundo is in the twilight now. He's not supposed to go 90 minutes. Key words: supposed to. But with Kovacic out, who goes in? O'Reilly? We put Simpson-Pusey in. Like for like sub. Ok. But then Pep subbed in KDB and McAtee. So that meant either Akanji or Lewis went into the middle. Neither knew what to do and both got beat.
 
What's most frustrating is that we actually played well for 75 mins. Drop those 75 mins into a regular run of games for us and it looks more than alright. We reduced Feyenoord to very little and created a lot of openings, and we deserved to be 3-0 up, if not more. But as soon as Pusey, Gvardiol, and Ederson all fucked up, Feyenoord sensed something and we didn't have the players in midfield or defence to step on any rising hope for them. Lewis is shagged out, Pusey is another Boyata, Akanji is playing through injury, and Gvardiol is also shagged out. With Dias and Walker out there that last 15 mins doesn't happen - it's the only hope I've got that we can get out of this bizarre rut and rebuild in January.
 
levets said:
Since May 1963… Almost 62 years!!!
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We were relegated that year.

While this is a significant stutter and I don't believe given what has transpired we can expect any success of sorts this season and I wouldn't be surprised if our 16 years of qualifying for the Chumps League comes to an end , we have the set up to bounce back relatively quickly but we do need a major overhaul of the squad in the next 4 windows and obtain real quality in many positions while doing so.

Our performances this year to date with a couple of exceptions have been below par and for an extended period of time to clearly indicate that many of our squad that has really overachieved for a number of years now and all credit to them have aged , become too injury prone and cannot compete with speed , strength and resilience anymore.

In short it was expected all things considered but we shall move on from this and be better for it in due course.
 
ShedDweller said:
I've just watched the 3 Feyenord goals again...
I can't really work out which bits of them are worse...
The defending... an outrage against humanity...
The goalkeeping... comedic genius...

Anyway, its hard to have a go at these players after all they have done for us so I'm putting it all down to a period of bad luck that is quite unreal.

Things will change and we will be ok.

We do however need to address some glaring weakness in the squad.
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I suppose it all depends on your definition of OK...
 
A few seasons ago as soon as we lost the ball we went hunting in packs for it & usually had it back within secs, that hunger, legs, drive & press is sadly no longer existent, we don’t have the players to carry it out anymore, a huge change is long overdue, our transfer dealings haaland aside have been shockingly bad last few yrs, I’ll cut givardiol some slack he’s playing out of position
 
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