As bad as we are in defence, it’s how the squad has been allowed to turn into one with zero goal threat that is killing us as much as no defence or midfield.
We have, Haaland apart, small technical players who all have zero pace, creativity or goals in them. Even tonight v a poor team, till the penalty you couldn’t see where a goal was coming from and then we got a lucky 2nd with a deflection.
It’s been an issue all season, we started with Chelsea and it was a good time to play them and that game could have easily gone the other way, Then starting with Ipswich, we should have been 4 up at half time yet missed chance after chance and got away with a penalty call on half time that would have got them a leveller.
And from then we have seen games like Sporting, Spurs, Brighton, Southampton etc where again we should have been out of sight but woeful finishing left us with defeats or hanging on.
We have zero threat in goals and assists from any of our wingers, no 2nd striker in the squad, no goals from midfield and we make scoring goals look complex yet other teams make scoring goals easy v us.
It has to be piss poor coaching. Our fitness levels and injuries, our awful transitions, our finishing, our woeful set pieces, you do wonder if he is too loyal to the coaching staff. We are meant to have one of the best training facilities in football but we seem to be lacking this season in all of the basics
