Feyenoord (H) | CL | Post Match Thread

Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Not Bournemouth, I think. I agree with Pep on that one. It's the only one. For my money, we were genuinely outplayed. In every other match, we've had clear periods of dominance, sometimes fully the first forty-five minutes, sometimes more, with plenty of chances. Even against Spurs, we were knocking it around, overlapping, had them very much on the back foot, it was only a question of when we were going to score, until their first goal came out of nothing. Then, it has to be said, we started to fall apart as a team. Last night was abject, though — we just chucked it away. I'm not easily going to get over that one.
It is very, very strange. That is why Pep himself is pretty perplexed.
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Even in the Bournemouth match we had 65% possession and 10 shots to their 8 (although low for us and they had more on target). I don't always read a lot into stats but the fact remains that the team with the best overall most important figures is usually he team that wins the match. But with us that hasn't been happening, opposition goals have often been half chances that wouldn't normally go in. Against Spurs, just like last night, we had far more chances then they did. But with us it seems at the moment it's like every half chance the opposition get goes in.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Anyone know why Cambrian Street was blocked off last night? The easy way of getting to the Green Car Park was blocked about thirty yards of so from the entrance. it had gone at FT. Was there an incident, road works or was it just a pre-match fuck up to match the in-game fuck up?
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Roadworks at the top of Birdhall Lane?
 
coolcity said:
I bet you weren't saying that the day he signed.

Last night was bizarre, even the Spurs result was, in fact I think I'm correct in saying that in EVERY ONE of the last 6 matches we've been the better team, most possession, most passes, most shots and so on. Statistically you wouldn't normally lose those matches, those odd half chances that the opposition get from an error or a hopeful ball don't result in a goal most of the time, but just lately they have and as such I think we've been desperately unlucky at times.

But I'll keep saying it, this is what happens when the core is ripped out of the side. It's not just the missing players, the ones coming in dont get a break, and in circumstances like this end up with a lot of pressure to deal with and make mistakes they wouldn't normally make as a result.
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Yeah, this is why I'm not hitting the panic button. We're always a bit this way around November in almost every season, the injury situation is just so, so much worse and it's exacerbating all the little problems Pep would usually solve. If we weren't creating chances/goals at all then I'd be more concerned, but quite often it's been the case recently where we're having loads of the ball and good chances, the ball's just not ending up in the net. The defence is fragile and fatigued for obvious reasons (we had two bloody kids in defence at the end last night) but Dias coming back will sort a lot of those problems out. A proper DM comes in at some point in January and we'll be reet.

I also think at the moment we're just getting really unlucky. We dominated the second half at Spurs in the cup and had at least two chances cleared off the line. We were unlucky not to nick a point at Bournemouth. We should have been out of sight against Brighton. We should have been ahead against Spurs by the time they scored to make it 1-0 and then just when we needed a bit of luck to start a comeback Haaland hit the bar. Last night against Feyenoord doesn't happen if Dias and Walker are on the pitch but they're currently coming back from injury and we're having to manage their fitness by persisting with a lad who's just turned 20 and needs a break (Lewis) and a bag of nerves who ordinarily we still wouldn't have heard of (Pusey).

Roll on January.
 
Roachy said:
Brighton game, good 1st half and more of the same for the 2nd half please, same with Sporting- went to pot. Spurs match, started well - turned to total shit at the back again. Last night looked a bit more of the City we know, then the clown show took over on 75 mins. These collapses are so uncharacteristic from this squad. Wouldn't put my house on it but hope they're over now or it's going to be painful viewing the coming months.
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Its simply lack of fitness-people quick to jump on Akanji, but he's clearly not fit-after 70 mins or so he can barely muster a jog, same as Ake...and they're the fittest centre halves.
 
Just minimal things pissing me off throughout our games at the moment.

Last night they stole about twenty five yards on a throw in to get in a dangerous position and not a single one of our defenders complained.

They also had someone stood five yards away from Gvardiol when he was going to take a free kick and instead of making a point of it to the officials we just delayed and tried to pass it around him.

It's all about small margins and although there were far more glaring errors yesterday (like the complete and utter lack of desire to suffocate a losing team) the fact that the team isn't willing to be petty and dirty and do everything it takes to see games out is really pissing me off.

Not to go all Delph but it's the fucking basics.
 
bert38 said:
Its simply lack of fitness-people quick to jump on Akanji, but he's clearly not fit-after 70 mins or so he can barely muster a jog, same as Ake...and they're the fittest centre halves.
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Fwiw I think they're good very good defenders and will look a lot better once fit.
 
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