Southampton (A) - Carabao Cup | Post Match Thread

[madloaf]

You summed up my sex life there, mate.

Did he say string not rope?!

 

[Dodge]

Chelsea post match 41 pages
This will smash that in 10 mins

 

[jayblue]

does not bode well for Sunday sorry to say

No but he rested players. Oh wait

 

[PistonBlue]

Shite. Lacking in every area, quite worrying with a derby around the corner. 100% improvement required for the next game.

 

[Sheik Battle and Goal]

Seen this performance coming a mile off.

We are not the best team anymore. Don’t matter if we have some of the best players in the world.

Passing is awful.
Team playing from back to front is slow and 2/3 levels below the previous seasons.
Players attitudes not good enough.
Player recruitment at this point in the season needs questioned.
Pep can’t keep performing miracles. Players throwing him to the wolves.

Stick with the Boss and ride this out. Big clear out needed and we need to recruit what we need to functions as a team not putting players in that are counter productive.

Took our eye off the ball now with the amount of success. Time for a reset. Lost a lot of big characters along the way.

And why is every player now taking 7 8 9 touches before passing it (backwards)

 

[Roachy]

Shite but expected with first half line up - fair play to Southampton-

only silver lining is that every player can give their head a wobble and are on it for the derby, especially Pep, no fucking weird formations please!

The line up is one thing, the appalling attitude on the pitch was a disgrace. Perfect example of a team who didn't want to be there. Shocking.

 

[mancityscot]

Poor recent recruitment is catching up with us. 150m for Grealish, Phillips and Gomez is a complete waste.

pretty sickening when you put it like that!

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Cancelo - awful
Phillips - awful
Palmer - not going to be good enough
Walker - been left out to dry by pep, needs to play rb or be on the bench.
Grealish - just gets carried every game
Gomes - just trash
Gundo - had a very poor game

You forgot Foden. Not at the races at all.
Subs weren’t a lot better tbh.
Kev flatters to deceive. One good pass in the first few minutes then nothing.
Haaland looked disinterested in this kind of game.
Ake and Rodri tried. They were definitely upgrades on what we took off.
I would have preferred Walker to stay on and Cancelo off with Akanji taking the CB position.

Not sure any of it would have mattered. We never looked like getting one back never mind two.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Some absolute bed wetters in the match thread. Someone even suggested 15 of our 25 man squad should be sold.

Yes, we were poor and we were undercooked for whatever reason. Saint's had a free hit under ZERO pressure, and were on it from the first to the last whistle. And don't for one second underestimate their home advantage for an evening kick off; that would have been a completely different game at the Etihad.

 

[swinton blue]

What the fuck are we playing at. We have got enough cover at centre back to rest 2 for the weekend and play 2 tonight but he goes and sticks walker at cb. Did he not learn from Chelsea in the league
Again are worst performances under pep come when he fucks about with players in un natural positions but he keeps doing it time and time again