The last 15 mins of games...

He did the right thing , if it was on target and the keeper saved it they would have had possession anyway. Absolute nonsense to lay any blame at McAtees door
If we had kept possession of the ball we would have won the game. Absolute nonsense to argue otherwise.
 
I would have been just as critical of KDB.
It’s not exactly as him missing the chance directly resulted in a goal.
It would have been more difficult to keep the ball given he was n the middle of the opposition area.
Plenty of shit defending happened in between the missed chance and the goal.
That’s the root of the problem…we can’t defend.
I am far more upset with Gvardiol and Savinho allowing a cross to come in than Mcatee
 
If we had kept the ball they wouldn't have had a goal kick.
We all know that.
How far back do you want to go.
We had loads of opportunities to stop them from scoring.
If Savinho had got tighter and stopped the cross.
, if Akanji hadn't been out jumped by the scorer, if Ortega had got a stronger hand to the header.

They nearly scored a minute later again when Ake cleared the ball from close to our goal line.
 
Everyone has surpassed our game using big,strong, athletic players. We don’t have the likes of Merlin to hold the ball like glue and our destroyer is long term injured in Rodri. There’s no reason we cant once again have the likes of Fernandinho in our midfield to match the physicality and pace of our opponents and still have them playing the Pep philosophy.
 
I am absolutely suggesting that a wayward shot cost us two points. To win the game all we needed to do was to keep possession of the ball for a few more minutes. We had seen how Brentford were capable of mounting very dangerous breakaway attacks in the last 20 or so minutes of the game. We had survived thanks to some brilliant defending from Guardiol and Ake but even so we had conceded a late goal. Keep the ball and win the game. Lose possession and drop two points.
While I agree with your point regarding holding on to possession to kill off a game something which we used to be good at. It's ridiculous to suggest that when an opportunity to score presents itself it is ignored in favour of continuing to recycle the ball. I would be highly critical of the actual attempt itself but not the decision to take on the shot. I suggest that you are starting to look silly by doubling down on your point. Time to stop digging.
 
It has nothing to do with age or legs, it's the mindset and the hunger, Maybe they are not under pressure to produce results because of the past 10 years and 4 in a row. You do get the feeling that it's ok to come up short this season and maybe with injuries there is a reason to fall back on.

100% Pep would never let any of his players ghost in games and still be here if he had more options
Great point. Now do you think that most of our squad are monetarily satisfied? Also completely satiated with respect to achievement. This combined with age for some leads to a kind of inertia and a sense that results don't really matter anymore?
 

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