Physioroom say's a thigh injury bud, no return date though which is a bit worrying. I usually see that only with super long bad injuries, most likely they just have not been given the info though.Does anyone know what Fernas injury is, let alone how long he’s out? Can’t believe Pep hasn’t been asked?
So many star players are out of form. Have seen Gundo criticised but Sterling, Sane and Kun were abysmal up front. We looked like headless chickens.
We’ve blown a good lead, an “unassailable” goal difference and even let Spurs past us, all in the space of about 3 weeks.
Fcukity fcuk.
Holding midfield is perhaps the most difficult position on the pitch. It's a sort of slightly advanced version of the sweeper of decades gone by - has to protect the back four, put out fires, break up play and give the ball to the creative midfielders as well as covering the space vacated by wing backs or overlapping full backs. In Fernandinho, he does everything well, wins the ball, passes superbly, is creative in his own right, carries the ball and hits a tremendous shot. Only the super fit can do that job. You cannot expect anyone to come in and do all those things immediately.Some one to come in and do possibly the hardest job in the team, maybe from a different country, in January and to play Peps way virtually from the off. I know what you mean but that will take some doing and I can't think of anyone.. Last summer was the time.
Not only are we conceding headed goals from floaty balls, we're hitting our own floaty chips and crosses into the box to our small attackers.Im just annoyed by conceding floaty cross headers all the time.
Worldys are fair play.
One or two on here disagree with me. We had more players than any club at the World Cup. They came back looking fresh and barely had a break. I wonder whether the lack of a break for many of our players is now catching up with them.I think it’s a but simplistic to says its all down the full backs. First and foremost, we have had a ridiculous number of injuries to key players. Even though KDB was back today it’s was clear he is not fully match fit. We are really missing Fernandinho. He is the glue that hold this team together and allows players like Merlin, Sterling, Sane and Bernie the freedom to be creative.Equally, we are really missing Merlin. He is the player whe creates the space and makes the killer passes to get the wingers in behind the opposition defence.
Our opponents have started doubling and tripling up on Sane and Sterling and are effectively cutting off the supply lines to Sergio, who is seeing nothing of the ball.
With regard to the fullbacks, we seem to have stopped sending them forward on the overlap , which was a significant attacking weapon. It doesn’t help that our fullbacks are not great defenders.
Even though though we have spent a lot of time on top of the league and scored a lot of goals, I don’t think we’ve really got into top gear that often this season. I don’t know why, it may be the World Cup effect.
I am not concerned about losing a couple of games, what does bother me is that we are now 7 points behind Liverpool and I just can’t see them dropping that many points the way they are playing.