I Know It’s Over

youngbob said:
Once again, we said exactly the same last season. Mahrez and Gundogan leaving apparently cost us 25-30 goals, Alvarez playing in midfield was costing us creativity and stopping him from scoring goals. I didn't notice those 30 goals missing when we lifted the title in May.

Look at this tweet from this exact day last season.

Haaland on 15 goals, Alvarez on 7, everyone else on 5 goals or fewer. 42 goals overall.



And here are our scorers this week.

Haaland on 15 again (after Brighton), everyone else on 3 goals or fewer. 35 goals overall.



It's easy to point at that second tweet and say Alvarez is obviously the missing piece, but bear in mind that Walker, Dias, Stones, Akanji, Bobb, Ake, Grealish, Doku, De Bruyne, and Rodri have all missed quite a few games already this season and would have made up the difference. The injuries have absolutely killed us in recent games.

Obviously there's nothing we can do about Rodri, but with De Bruyne, Doku, and eventually Bobb back in our attacking line-up (plus Echeverri) things will get better from January onwards. You imagine Savinho will pitch in more once he breaks his duck. And that's if we don't sign an attacker in January, which we might.

Not all is lost!
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I'd love to have your optimism, but as @burning blue soul has said, it does feel very different this time
Last season I said it would take KDB until March/ April to recover any sort of fitness and form and I'm happy to say I was wrong
Here we are again with him with another injury and hoping that he can do it all again, but he's another year older (I wonder if he'll turn out for Belgium in a couple of weeks!)
Even if he does, we're still missing Rodri and all that he brings
Bobb is coming back from a broken.leg, so there's no guarantee he will deliver anything at all this season
Doku is hot and cold and still very raw
Grealish offers control, but very few goals and assists

It really all comes back to what we can squeeze out of the ageing and more injury prone KDB

As I said in today's post match thread, top four will be an achievement this season and it wouldn't surprise me if Chelsea snuck the league
 
The difference between the last few seasons and this one at the same stage is that in previous seasons we were unlucky in some games and we didn't deserve to drop points. This season we are the lucky ones to come out with points.

Even the happiest of happiest clappers can't defend this season.

We.have been utterly poor since the first game. We have played well for about 90 minutes the whole of the games this season combined.

From what we have witnessed this season, no way this squad puts a run of 8/9/10 games winning run together.

The dippers are relentless and we look shot to pieces.

Huge changes needed for me. Use the rest of this season as a rebuild exercise.
 
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