Fulham (H) | PL | Post-Match Thread

[M Gaudino]

We desperately need some legs in midfield. Pep clearly doesn't rate Nunes, but I feel like we have to give him a real run of games in midfield. Kova/Gundo are getting bypassed like they're not here. The warning signs have been there all season. Maybe some lack of motivation, poor transfer windows, and injuries have caught up to us, albeit it's still early in the season, but there's definitely some reason for concern.

disappointed to not see nunes today. he must be confident after a great goal in the cup, and another game in midweek.

more worrying for me is bernardo. i dont know where he fits in the team, very ineffective wide right and we need some legs in the centre.

Gundog is a write off in central midfield. hes looking like Casemeiro.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

I hate to say it, but we can count our blessings today.
Only awful finishing from Fulham let us off the hook.
Hopefully, we can get KDB back after the break and take it from
there.

We had nearly double the shots they did. Maybe it’s our finishing, eh?

 

[ProofMCFC]

Lucky to get the 3 points and a really poor performance by many players. Looking back at that team and the bench it feels like a huge drop in quality/performance levels since the treble .

Said in a previous post that we have regressed massively and I asked the question whether the charges have made the club more reluctant to spend money in the recent transfer window.

 

[robbieh]

There is a big Rodri shaped hole in the team.

Don't think Kova is able to play that role. In fact he looks a decent Gundo replacement. Speaking of whom, he doesn't look the same player. Maybe a year playing in La Liga has taken the edge of him.
Obviously Kev will be fit again and will start.

Bernardo's wasted out wide.

Still have no idea who to pick in a midfield 3.

 

[Crooked_rain]

Lucky to get the 3 points and a really poor performance by many players. Looking back at that team and the bench it feels like a huge drop in quality/performance levels since the treble .

Does it?

I remember plenty of negative comments that season when we were trailing to Arsenal for large parts of the season.

 

[half & half derby scarf]

We desperately need some legs in midfield. Pep clearly doesn't rate Nunes, but I feel like we have to give him a real run of games in midfield. Kova/Gundo are getting bypassed like they're not here. The warning signs have been there all season. Maybe some lack of motivation, poor transfer windows, and injuries have caught up to us, albeit it's still early in the season, but there's definitely some reason for concern.

Spot on, and i'd give Stones the Rodri role. Gundo is a luxury we can't afford atm.

 

[nellyonthewing]

Said in a previous post that we have regressed massively and I asked the question whether the charges have made the club more reluctant to spend money in the recent transfer window.

A random thought circulating my head is that the PL have said if you promise to let the other boys win this season we'll drop the charges.

 

[OntarioBlue]

No we weren't - either poor or outplayed. They played well on the break and had some good periods of possession in the second half that caused us problems, but they weren't the better side.

I didn’t say they were the better side. I said we were poor, which we were, and that we were outplayed for large parts of the game, which we were. We had 52% possession today which indicates how close it was.

 

[Gabriel]

We desperately need some legs in midfield. Pep clearly doesn't rate Nunes, but I feel like we have to give him a real run of games in midfield. Kova/Gundo are getting bypassed like they're not here. The warning signs have been there all season. Maybe some lack of motivation, poor transfer windows, and injuries have caught up to us, albeit it's still early in the season, but there's definitely some reason for concern.

Nunes is the only player with any speed in midfield, particularly running back to our box. We need to appreciate that the older legs are tiring earlier than they used to and get Nunes on in the middle before the opposition seizes the advantage. We’re riding our luck at the moment but that won’t hold indefinitely.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Bernardo in the centre Gundo is offering nothing at the moment, get a settled back four, trying to shoehorn Lewis in is compromising the back four, Akanji(Walker) stones Diaz Guardiol. Lewis is good but I don’t see where he plays he’s definitely not a right back and others seem ahead of him in midfield. Haaland is getting zero service unless KDB plays. Fulham played well but scarily cut through us too easily. Glad for the win but Pep needs to sort us shopping goals if it wasn’t for Eddie we would’ve lost convincingly today.