Szoboszli has the freedom of the park in front of our back line, and the outlet of Salah over the top, is stretching us at the back.
Said it a million times, but City have no size, strength or speed in the middle of the park and get passed through, around and just out run and hustled.
Wish I had an answer, but I honestly don’t think we have an answer with this group of players. We might be able to grab hold of the ball for periods of the game, but don’t appear to have too many ideas what to do with it. When they’re in the same position, we look shaky.
The only shot we had was Lewis’s scuffed, outside of the foot, effort. Was ANYONE thinking he would score from there? Compare that to if TAA, Robertson, MacAllister, Szoboszli, Gravenberch, Gakpo, Salah, or Luiz had been in the position and the gulf between the teams is on full view.
The other thing we have to be careful with is a hatful of (pathetic) yellow cards. Nunes, Foden and Akanji are all on the edge with only Foden’s a card, so we are only one broken pass or breakaway from being down to 10 men.
Looks like Grealish & Doku coming on, but we need to grab control of the middle of the park and have Walker & Ake shut off the outlet to their wingers.