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madloaf said:
I agree with some of this but "Relentless games" is not true. Liverpool have played exactly the same amount of games. They are not in the same position as us. They do not have the same injuries as us. Nor the same ability to commit defensive suicide every game at least 3 times.
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No, they're just 2 points ahead of us despite all the issues we have have all season. It is relentless, 2 games a week every week except for the international breaks, which just stretches out the season and makes it worse, and takes even more out of the players (most of whom are internationals) because of all the travelling for a pointless tin pot international competition. The big problem this creates is the lack of recovery time, especially when most of the players are paying for most of the summer. It's more or less an 11-month a year job now, so you get more injuries and it takes longer for players to recover.
 
Gordyola said:
Not making excuses for him as there is no need he’s playing out of position and doing well his stats back that up Yeah stupid pen but he was trying to recover and the slight pull resulted in a pirouette
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Nunes was the least of our problems tonight and for those making him out the scape goat needs to look at other players who play on a regular basis who were dog shite.
 
An awful result, could of been a lot different if we’d of taken our chances in the first 30 minutes when we should’ve been at least 3-0 up, they were dreadful.

2nd half begins and we looked like we just got out the pub, gave a silly goal away from the kick off then our heads went.

Their first pen was soft I thought, not sure it would’ve been given in the Prem but that’s the way it goes. In a matter of minutes we go from 1-1 to 3-1, heads went and it could’ve got worse during that period of play.

We got a pen out of nowhere as the dopey ref missed the handball, Haaland misses it which I don’t think he’s ever done for us before (maybe wrong), that could’ve got us back in the game.

Once that was missed our heads went again and we concede another penalty, this one fully deserved.

Not our night, lots of injuries, thin on the ground at the moment but I feel until we get to the other side of the international break it’s not going to get any better. We look so open at the back and concede far too easily without taking our chances at the other end.

That being said, there is some hope in a few players coming back over the next few games and the way we played without conceding for the first 30 minutes.

Blue line under the game, all focus on Brighton away.
 
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coolcity said:
The only problem is that people cannot recognise the difference between a blip caused mostly by a severe injury list, and a crisis.
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That loss tonight had nothing to do with the injury list, it was down to the fact we can't put the fucking ball in the net (or even on target), before they scored it should have been 4 or 5-0, and it wasn't like their keeper was having a worldy, he looked dreadful for 30 minutes.
 
chris85mcfc said:
3 captains on the night sort of summed up where we are at the moment

No real identity to our season, club captain clearly has major off the field problems, and isn't actually good enough to be playing every week

Of tonight's 3 captains, 2 of them came off the bench and its hard to say which one of them is closest to getting anywhere near their previous levels

Who actually is the leader of our team? Is it Walker, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Dias, Rodri, Bernardo or Stones, as I'm fairly sure all of them have been captain at some point this season. Can't think of any other side who has a different captain every single game!

Brighton is a huge game now, as we could be in serious bother going into December, when we play Liverpool and United.

I'm just not convinced it's all injury related, there looks to be something seriously wrong with the overall mentality of the team at the moment. That side put there tonight was capable of getting a result against an above average Sporting side, they certainly weren't a great side.
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It could just be as simple as they’ve won 4 in a row and finding it hard to get the real hunger.
 
Lots of issues all over the pitch but if we didn't have a team of non scorers and could finish the problems would be far less acute.

I also have to be honest I've never been a fan of this side to side stuff but surely its coming to the end of its shelf life, it seems doomed to end in a catastrophic breakdown and s getting quite tedious.as its so ineffectual.
 
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