If you take your foot of the gas the rest catch up. We are our own worst enemy, we now have no left backs and in reality no right backs. Potentially we have a superb center half pairing in Ruben and Josko. However we have an ageing and poorly balanced squad. We have to buy and strengthen to be number one just in the EPL, never mind the CL.
We can't play to get the best out of Erling, because we are slow at the back and in most areas of the pitch. No.ovrrlaps on the wings when attacking has been missing for two seasons. We can't buy everyone, but we have a weaker squad than last season and this has been a trait for the last two seasons. This has been offset by some superb performances from a core of 9 players. But they are getting old and todays team was simply poor and not good enough on the day. Ake Kyle and Akanji are no longer good enough, injuries.age, or both have took its tool toll.
The youth team has produced several decent attacking players, hopefully it will produce more.