Exeter Blue I am here
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Not normally one to carried away but this is shocking. Regardless of selection, the collective shiteness is very worrying. The defence frailties are there for everyone to see, but when Silva, KDB, Sterling and Bony are all pretty much ineffective and when defensive midfielders are diving in and losing out putting an already shite defence under more pressure, and when that defence can look so static and so open then questions have be asked about wtf is going on. I though Liverpool was a fake result, I was wrong. This is Stoke, never an easy place to go but never a place to go for a lesson in football either.
We're fundamentally flawed. People scoffed on here about how we wouldn't miss Milner, but on days like today his attributes are precisely what are lacking. So many slightly built, powder puff, players I don't know where to start. As usual, any team that gets stuck into us, beats us.
The rags are a dire footballing side, but they will go to Stoke with Smalling (6ft 5'), Jones (6ft), Schneiderlin (6ft 1'), Valencia (6ft 2'), Fellaini (6 ft 4'), Schweinsteiger (6ft) and Stoke won't get a sniff.
Injuries have cost us today, with Kompany, Mangala and Toure's absence robbing the side of power, but it's still pathetic beyond belief. What are we up to now, something like 350 minutes without an away goal?