His performance has nothing to do with us constantly conceeding the same type of goals....He had an excellent start, beating his full back easily. Unfortunately it only lasted 8 minutes
Well sure... given our current squad this is so.
We play a very high line, aggressive attacking formation with the ball, maximizing width to create space. When the ball turns over, one or more City players will be near the point of turn over and it's up to them to press. This demands stamina, positional nous and a commitment to aggressively press.
This strategy is obviously sound - we won the last 4 titles in a row - trouble is, our squad isn't good enough currently (Rodri is a huge miss) - to implement the strategy. Ball turns over, our line is very high, our fullbacks (one or both) are way up field - and there's no instant aggressive pressure on the ball. From there, a skillful attacker with time on the ball is going to cause problems - and we've been leaking goals as a result.
that was my plan for yesterday.This seems to me to be the obvious solution as well
A few games have been like yesterday. We start brightly, miss chances, then give the ball away and opponents either score or nearly score. Would love Kulesevski in our side.There was a point in the game very early on at 0-0 when Spurs had the ball on there left (our right)...there was a huge switch out towards where Gvardiol was supposed to be to Kulachvski....somehow Kulacheski had managed to stray offside (no idea how)....but at that point they had 3 or 4 players running past our midfield streaming forward....at that point it was only a matter of time and that none of the problems had been solved.
The goals we are conceeding are carbon copies of situations every week....
if the twat is gonna feign injury then kick the fucker anyway, give him something to think about.The ref awarded Spurs 19 free kicks.
17 must of been for their 'hardman' Maddison who just loves to hit the deck when given the opportunity.
I thought the ref was whistling Happy Birthday to him at one stage
We won without him at the very start of the seasonI just wonder if the constant mantra "Can't win without Rodri" has got inside the player's heads and become a self fulfilling prophecy?
Have to agree with O'Reilly, I genuinely thought he was going to start yesterday with Kovacic being missing too.we must at least try oreilly or wright just for some physicality.it might not work but what we are doing now is definitely not working.