Match Thread | Fulham vs Man City (13/03/21)

[FantasyIreland]

Chris Wilder's left SU if anyone cares

Is that his wife? Bad week for him then

 

[geoff hammond]

I get they need match fitness, but it’s highly unusual to play 3 or 4 of them at once from the start. We’ve had a shedload of games recently, why not spread out the mins of those needing time on the pitch, instead of sticking them all in the same game?

Pep does a lot of highly unusual things. Generally seems to work though don’t you think?

 

[BolinCell]

Mendy and Canceclo playing wingbacks alongside 3 strikers(if you count torres who has played the role for us enough this season). The balls in behind should be no problem to find for mendy and cancelo, yet we simply havent found anything outside of cancelo once or maybe twice. Mendy has produced absolutely nothing. I dont blame pep for the system because on paper it should be effective against this fulham side...but one side you have cancelo havent to link up with torres who's short of game time, and the other side gabby having to link with mendy...

The other issue is we keep constantly cutting back inside expecting to find something central when we are effectively playing 2 midfielders during attacking play.

Poor endevour and understanding of what is expected by the wide players.

I do blame the system, was their any need to change the team to that extent?. Change individuals but don't change everything.

 

[Tez Tosterone]

Relax everyone.

Pep will make all the correct decisions when it comes to 2nd half substitutions and the tactical changes needed to get past Fulham.

 

[TonyM]

Change it Pep !!!!

Still 0-0

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

No changes at HT.

 

[come-on-barney]

Cost of the bench from Darke inbound?

Not sure why some get upset by this it’s just facts

 

[ballinio]

He is maximising his squad potential on 4 fronts over the course of a compressed season, could you do better?

Why’s me doing better relevant ?

 

[ninjamonkey]

Creativity is not the issue here, we've set up to play down the flanks, the problem is the supply is too slow, we're getting the ball to the wings with everybody in position and doubled up which then means somebody has to do something special just to get into a position to create anything, move the ball quickly, shift them about and the space will reveal itself.

 

[didsburyblu]

Can only imagine what the match day threads were like in the 2018/19 run in

It's a good job there with no match day threads in the 1990's!