Sporting CP (A) | CL | Post Match Thread

[Bluesince1979]

It makes some people massively entitled and raggish to read some of the unnecessary tripe on here tonight.

But … it was shite

 

[dobingsdobber]

How have we ended up in a situation where we have 5 attack minded players who don’t offer any real goal threat (Doku, Grealish, Savinho, Bernardo and Nunes)?

Yep,Aguero would have had at least three in that first half.(Even at the age and stage he is now)

 

[wahablue]

That was shite,amble forwards ,passing backwards sideways,no movement,no pace,.There goals came because of pace,they sprinted,we walk,amble then wonder why we can,t score against Ten man defences.What the fuck was said by Pep at half time ,because the team were fast asleep from the first second,and that useless,lazy twat at centre forward,doesn’t,t work,always at the back post never the near post,that’s enough from me,final word SHITE.

 

[deano ou812]

I thought we were brilliant first half and game should have been done,but that second half was the complete opposite and a disgrace how the fuck can you concede like that in the first 20-30 secs just pure complacency and piss poor interest and defending..

 

[Damien10]

After an absolute shit show of misplaced passes from kdb at the final whistle he stomped straight to the coaches and a heated debate took place .for reference KDB was an absolute embarrassment tonight.

It’s not the first time Kevin thinks he’s bigger than the club. If he’s spitting his dummy out again then move him on in January for all I care.

 

[ninjamonkey]

What's the solution?

That's for Pep to fix. I don't claim to have the answers, I can just see the big problems we have. I've said for weeks even after wins this is an issue that needs fixing.

In my opinion we need to drop to a more conventional defensive shape, we need a real back 4 not this back 3 that's costing us every game. Stop throwing too many players ahead of the ball when we clearly can't cope with it. It's not as if we're getting anything going forward by doing it either, there's currently no benefit for an alarmingly wild kamikaze defensive approach.

 

[RayCTID]

When was the last time we conceded 4

Leicester in Pep's first season. 6 against the same opponents. We had a makeshift defence in both games.

 

[Twisted-wheel]

lol @ Silvinho

Oh shit the typo

 

[alexmcity]

We weren't as bad as the result suggests. Actually, we were pretty good in the 1st half but Haaland had a bad day at the office.

Of course, we had problems in defence which given the injuries isn't a big surprise. We have 2 injury prone defenders in Stones and Ake. We can't rely on their fitness. Akanji and Gvardiol have to play almost every game to compensate for their problems. One of the injury prone defenders needs to go.

Rodri is hard to replace. He's a unique player who is a bit underappreciated by parts of the fan base (by those who don't realize he's much better than Fernandinho). He's fundamental to how Pep wants us to play. Pep's system is highly complicated and Rodri made it work. Fortunately, he got injured after we won the Treble and then the 4th in a row.

Pep can find a solution. Those turning against him are fools. Won't be easy but we can win something big again.

 

[Norman kneejerk]

Well that didn't have much going for it , attackers that can't score, defenders that can't tackle and midfielders that can't run.
The thing I find most tedious of all is our ponderous attacking going from side to side, then losing it, almost unwatchable.

Absolute spot on

Very much agree this, can't win with a team of non scorers. A lot of the other problems would be minimised then.