Not going to repeat the problems we have with shape ive mentioned elsewhere even though its probably most appropriate here but safe to say it is all on him once more and his words worry me that we will persist with this approach and we will continue to struggle. Saying we pressed well for their second goal is mental, it was awful, worse than the two penalties we gave away. I really hope that's just pep in media mode and isn't his true views.
If a spanking against what was a distinctly average sporting side isn't the jolt up the arse he needs to change things, were going to be stuck with this for the foreseeable.
And sporting were average tonight by the way despite the united contingent wanking themselves silly over that, bournemouth were much better last weekend, they were just wasteful otherwise it would have been a similar scoreline.
Brighton are better than anything we've faced in the last month or so, do thr same against them and we'll get slapped. And then we've got actual quality sides like spurs, Dippers and villa on the horizon, they'll twat us in this setup.
I agree with what you say but will add not only would we gain some solidity defensively, it arguably suits the attacking players we currently have more to play more directly, quickly and put the ball at risk more. having 70% possession with slow build up against a compact 11 is doing nothing for us anyway as we cannot break teams down or reliably create chances, haaland is built to play on transition, kdb and foden can supply and create more if they are direct, the wingers can beat a man. if we didn't have pep in charge, with this squad, I'm fairly certain we'd be playing more directly.
