Fulham (H) | PL | Post-Match Thread

Superb analysis PC, I don't think we'll win the league this year and think the smear campaign is having a huge impact. However I think most of us (especially our generation) are not that entitled, it's a shit show being thrown at our club, it sickens me, I hope KDB, Johnny and Phil gets back to full fitness and we give a great account of ourselves, if we don't win anything it won't bother me one bit.
Very much agree with that.if we win the league great but its not why I go. Would only add I think the league winner normally has a player in the form of their life who carries the team. We have had many but not really got that atm.
 
Yup. Gundogan was signed to come on as a sub and see games out, or to play in games where Kevin and/or Rodri needed resting. He'll get better, he's just rusty imo, but he's playing more than expected at this stage.
He doesn't need too be though. A midfield 3 of Kovacic, Bernardo and Foden would have decent balance and a bit of energy about it. Savinho would play wide right instead of Bernardo and Gundogan could be gently eased back in until he's ready to start games.
 
Yup. Gundogan was signed to come on as a sub and see games out, or to play in games where Kevin and/or Rodri needed resting. He'll get better, he's just rusty imo, but he's playing more than expected at this stage.
But the bizarre thing is he doesn’t need to be playing as much as he is, it’s hanging him out to dry. No reason whatsoever that Bernie can’t be alongside Kova with Savio out wide. Or even Phil out right with an extra midfielder playing.
 
Was always going to be a struggle against an in form Fulham team plus us trying to figure life without Rodders but we pulled through
 
It's pretty hard to describe that game. We started like a house on fire and should have scored twice. Just a matter of time we thought. Then Fulham had a couple of breaks and we were wobbling. Around me we all said we know what's coming next and bang, there it was, 1-0 down. Fulham could have scored a couple more, Ederson was great today, really saved us. At last somebody took a shot and we were level.

Second half we got in front and hoped to quickly add a third, sadly it didn't happen. Every single time Fulham attacked they looked like scoring and time and time again we got caught on the break. Fulham then incredibly did a City on us. They were pulling us all over the place and we couldn't get the ball. I've not seen us so totally dominated like that in a long time. An equaliser looked inevitable. Thank God Doku scored that screamer and we all thought we could breath a sigh of relief the points were safe. How wrong we were! Fulham kept going and scored another due to some poor defending. It was such a relief to hear the final whistle.

Credit to Fulham they deserved at least a point. Worryingly for us we looked shattered at times, very leggy. We are also getting caught time after time on the break and look as vulnerable as we did in Peps first season in defence. I hope a lot of our players pull out of the hated internationals, they need a rest.

Pep has a couple of weeks to think about how to try and tighten things up. Obviously Rodri is going to be a huge miss but we are going to have to come up with a solution. If Arsenal or Liverpool don't win the title this season they never will.
We really did look tired. I would say that a few of them did after half an hour.

Kovačić couldn’t believe he wasn’t taken off twice. Stood there with his hands on his knees shaking his head when firstly Foden went off and then Gundo went off. Looked fucked.

So did Gundo to be honest.
 

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