Every team we play waits. They don’t give us the space in the final third & then wait to use their speed when they can exploit our weaknesses.
Every team we play has pace. We have none, or the players that do like Haaland, are given no space to run into.
Does Pep see Lewis as Philip Lahm 2.0? I don’t get it.
Feels like we just rock up to every match without analysing what the opposition will do.
Anyway, we know our squad is small, missing players of the quality and bedrock of the last few seasons - stones, Foden, ake, Akanji, rodri, coupled with the ageing drop off of Walker, Gundo, Kev and Bernardo. That’s a huge hole. But I suppose this is the price we pay for winning 4 on the trot.
And being honest, if offered this situation after winning 4, I would have taken it in a heart beat. Nobody has done it before, and I’d be surprised if any team does so again in the next few decades, and I’ve got to remember that. A new, different cycle will begin.
Not blaming anyone at the moment. Buying 4 or 5 top class players to take over from some of the above last season or this was never going to happen. Top class players don’t sign to sit on the bench and wait their turn. Another reason no team has ever won 4.
Things don’t taste good right now, but we’ve had so much honey over the years and that taste will come back.
