Fulham (H) | PL | Post-Match Thread

I wouldn't mind seeing Kova and Stones in a double Pivot.

I think Kova is very good as long as he has someone alongside him and I fancy Stones to be his wing man more than Gundo right now

Wouldn't mind seeing Bernie have a stint on the bench. Love the fella but he's been treading water for a while. Get him on the bench and let's see how hungry he is.
 
hertsblue said:
Like the Brentford game, very very lucky to have all 3 points due to them both missing great chances to go 2 up.
Pep worked a miracle last season to make 4 in a row history but i am afraid this team and squad looks like it will fall short this season.

A shockingly bad defence these days, god knows why, as its the same players that have done well previously, we just cannot keep a clean sheet in the PL.
A huge issue for this is our awful midfield. Zero pace, no energy and teams just run through us at will.

A case of largely 2 hugely disappointing summer windows, not addressing our shallow squad depth, poor buys and not addressing key areas that needs addressing whilst actually making our squad weaker by selling and not replacing only our 2nd striker in the squad.

3rd is the best i feel we can finish this season, both Dippers and Arsenal look far better teams, Dippers have more goals throughout the team and the way they are being officiated whilst both them and Arsenal create so much, and score lots from set pieces.

Our set piece coach is so bad he has become satirical, todays were more embarrassing than ever and presented more chances for the opposition, how Pep cannot see this and give him the sack us baffling.

And a team of our size these days, it’s extremely poor squad planning when we have a few players injured and cannot name a bench with the allotted places and that even included 2 keepers.
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Liverpool has played absolutely nobody. They are about to enter the gauntlet.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
I thought we were very average today. Great goals from Kova and Doku though but my god they could have had 5 today.

We will miss Rodri and when De Bruyne also doesn’t play we look pretty average.

Defence a mess.

Fulham were good.
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I think we looked average but our standards, but we didn’t look standard average mate. Fulham are very good and counter as well as any team in the league - which is a tactic that has always threatened us ever since pep came. We’re missing our two best players. Any team would struggle. Pep will sort it. He ALWAYS does.
 
When Fulham had the ball for a long time around the 70th minute, they only got it in our penalty area once, and that was a pass to no-one. Eddie finally gets it and plays it long to Haaland and we score from the move. Just what other teams do to us.

That said, they scored when they did finally find someone in the PA!
 
Macca77macca said:
Its like this every season. We scrape by and drop some points then January arrives and VROOOOOOM

We can not be perfect every fucking week. We are perfect when it matters and we will be again.

And lay off players who have won the whole world for us. Let say we win shag all this season, so? (We will win though. We will)
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Yep
the international break does fuck up the early part of the season and City have players going everywhere in the world, Sloppy today and made it harder than it should have been but 3 points won and you get the same amount of points for a sloppy win or an amazing win.

My only question is that our defence is looking patchy at best
 
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King Jay said:
they barely concede while everyone scored against us .
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They haven’t played anybody. Heck they lost to Forest. I have feeling they will have at least a loss and a draw coming in this stretch they are about to enter.
 
A little surprised at the amount of criticism aimed at Lewis in the match thread. That said, some right pricks post bollocks in there. Lewis has been brilliant this season, today it wasn’t his day but he wasn’t poor.
Haaland was far less effective but gets a pass when he doesn’t show up.
Midfield is a problem for us at the moment. Kovacic didn’t have a great match and his ball retention was horrible. Grateful for his two strikes though.
Credit to a resilient Fulham who were stubborn at the back and decent up top. I think they had only conceded 5 this season before today.
We haven’t hit top form yet and we have Bobb, KDB and Ake to come back.
I think it will be a tough season. We may strengthen/ refresh for next season but I don’t expect anything to happen in the next window.
 
Got the 3 points which is all that matters, but we were lucky not to concede 6-7 today. Eddie was incredible. Defence been piss poor all season
 
OrigamiNinja said:
That was awful and law of averages says we are not going to keep getting away with it. Fair play to Fulham but in years gone by, we dispatch that level of opposition with ease. Not so this season.

We don’t have a midfield. Kova two goals, the 2nd of which was fantastic but it should not mask the fact that we have a gaping hole right in the middle. Gundo is either unfit or finished. I hope it’s the former but I’m leaning towards it being the latter given what we are seeing from him. The guy couldn’t move for the last 30 mins.

The two wide men of Grealish and Bernie is fucking terrible. Easy to defend against and offering zero threat. Grealish hasn’t scored in 2024 and Bernie well over 20 games. If I was the opposition manager and saw those two out wide, I would be fucking delighted. I actually think, we might actually be better served if Bernie and Grealish moved central. Bernie definitely.

Our defence also needs a kick up the arse. I have some sympathy because they are getting little to no protection from the midfield but at the moment, Josko is the only one that is switched on.

Eddie was fantastic today and has certainly won us points.
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Summed up perfectly and saves me the time to write similar.
 
No idea how we won that, completely even game in terms of quality and enacting the gameplan the managers set their teams out to do, if not second best again. We aren’t playing well, we can’t even pass the ball properly under no pressure.

Foden - and in the second half Foden and Lewis - was wide open for passes in the pocket all game and barely anyone passed it to him (/them).

We look like a squad where poor signings and lack of signings have unfortunately finally caught up with us.

In the treble season, only Foden (who didn’t even get injured, he had his appendix out) missed games and he was even back for the run-in where we didn’t have a single injury at all for the final few months.
Since then it’s like we thought that would last forever but it clearly never would.

Thankfully we are picking up points but I can’t say we really clearly deserved three points in any game since Ipswich in August.
 
OntarioBlue said:
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.
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I know what you said, no need to repeat it. I disagree with your assessment and you are factually wrong by saying we were outplayed for large parts of the game. If you'd said 'some' I might have agreed with you. The stats I've seen show we had 58% possession, which indicates it wasn't that close.
 
mancboy said:
Lets put things in perspective here, fulham were sixth had not let in more than 1 goal all season, had just beaten newcastle 3-1 last week and had a week off and despite us playing shit we scored 3 and ground out a win.

Bluemoon response : THE WORLD IS ENDING.
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Yeah, but the thing is all those points we keep dropping….oh.
 
We overcommited by having our CBs so high up the pitch but with none of them contributing anything other than clogging up space.

We are too slow in passing and our passing was very innacurate at times. So we create very few genuine chances.

Our midfielders pretend to defend sometimes. Every one of them really. Even Bernardo can't be bothered tracking back sometimes.

But...

I'm convinced that Pep sort of likes the poor performances early in the season so he can use them as evidence of a continued improvement as the season progresses and us not peaking too soon in the season.
 
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