SleepingBlueTiger
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Echos of Newcastle 1st half. Completely different style half but similar poor performance. Mahrez and KDB were decent in my opinion, rest varying levels of below par.
Some points coming to mind:
Fullbacks are poor, combination of strange tactics by Pep and just poor play by them. We don't really have quality alternatives on bench though.
Early days but Haaland doesn't exactly seem a great fit. We are not the team that plays the ball early which is his biggest strength and as a team we lose in chance creation having him instead of a more technical player there.
We'll have to change if we want to get most out of him but that's difficult. Playing early balls means losing some control of the game and this team doesn't do well when we don't have control.
Struggling to see why Pep benched Gundogan too, the best player so far in the season. Anyway, him for Bernardo must be coming early. He is the best hope we have for salvaging something from this.
Some points coming to mind:
Fullbacks are poor, combination of strange tactics by Pep and just poor play by them. We don't really have quality alternatives on bench though.
Early days but Haaland doesn't exactly seem a great fit. We are not the team that plays the ball early which is his biggest strength and as a team we lose in chance creation having him instead of a more technical player there.
We'll have to change if we want to get most out of him but that's difficult. Playing early balls means losing some control of the game and this team doesn't do well when we don't have control.
Struggling to see why Pep benched Gundogan too, the best player so far in the season. Anyway, him for Bernardo must be coming early. He is the best hope we have for salvaging something from this.
