Fair enough. And I don’t think anyone expects it to be easy to win titles again - it would be a phenomenal achievement.How many Copenhagen players would start for Chelsea? 1-2 max?
Copenhagen are a decent team, but Chelsea’s squad is one of the most expensive ever for a reason.
We weren't good, but it's extremely difficult to be good after 3 PL titles in a row and the Treble. And we could still win another Treble. It's incredible really.
I’m never worried about City going away to any side in the world. What worries me is the officials.I am not as worried about Anfield. Last time we've been there, we have been the better side, and this Liverpool side is not as powerful. Even if we draw, I would back us to have more points in the remaining fixtures than Liverpool. And Arsenal don't worry me at all.
As frustrating as today was, I feel like Pochetino and Chelsea are always difficult to us. We have to be way more clinical though.
Spot on mateI am not as worried about Anfield. Last time we've been there, we have been the better side, and this Liverpool side is not as powerful. Even if we draw, I would back us to have more points in the remaining fixtures than Liverpool. And Arsenal don't worry me at all.
As frustrating as today was, I feel like Pochetino and Chelsea are always difficult to us. We have to be way more clinical though.
Their in the cup final at the weekend, so playing Luton midweek insteadwhy do Liverpool play next Wednesday its not postponed game
Fair enough. And I don’t think anyone expects it to be easy to win titles again - it would be a phenomenal achievement.
The only point I’m making is a fairly straightforward one - on those rare occasions this season we’ve played in a similar style/setup to last year, we’ve looked much better than when we play like we did tonight.
Post takeover in the league our record there is:It will. And I think I know now we will get feck all.
I think it's because we've made the whole thing incredibly hard. Needlessly hard in fact...could be 1 point behind on tues with 39 points available and some folk are giving up
Again, nothing there I disagree with. But those injuries haven’t forced Pep to abandon so much of what we were doing at the end of last season. Even today, and assuming Bernardo wasn’t fit for more than 30 mins, we still didn’t have to effectively play with 5 risk-taking forwards. And that, for me, is the concern - no matter how fresh we might be, if we keep playing like that, I’m much less confident of our chances of picking up the necessary points.We've barely played Stones, Kevin and Haaland together, and not because Pep injured them. We have little choice but to rotate heavily. Otherwise, we can't finish the season strongly. Personally, I think we'll be fresher than both Arsenal and Liverpool in April/May.
I think it's because we've made the whole thing incredibly hard. Needlessly hard in fact...
Liverpool at home - hammered them, ended up drawing. Criminal
Chelsea away - we were winning then Walker panicked, booted it away, they attacked and we conceded a pen.
Spurs at home - last mint goal. Walker AGAIN failing to stop a rudimentary cross. Ake forgetting how to jump... 2 games we ended up drawing from winning positions.
Crystal Palace - we were 2 up FFS! Unforgivable to drop the ball from there against a bunch of average simpletons.
Then there's today. Walker, guilty again. Man loses his mind and becomes reminicent of a greyhound chasing a rabbit. Abandons his position and his brain. Panics again, allows Sterling to cut inside (he always turns inside, it's fucking obvious). Haaland misses a sitter. More points dropped.
If we'd have even seen 2 of those 5 fucking games out, what a different story it would be. So I understand people's pessimism. We fucked up earlier in the season and have made it so we have zero room for error.
I'd love us to win the league but we have to win at Anfield now, a draw wouldn't have been a disaster had we not fucked up today. Winning the game in hand would have put us a point ahead now pre anfield, now we'd be 1 behind at best.
Win at Anfield and I'll firmly believe we can nail it. Anything else, I'm sorry to say but that's us fucked. We'll done on making it unnecessarily hard City.
Again, nothing there I disagree with. But those injuries haven’t forced Pep to abandon so much of what we were doing at the end of last season. Even today, and assuming Bernardo wasn’t fit for more than 30 mins, we still didn’t have to effectively play with 5 risk-taking forwards. And that, for me, is the concern - no matter how fresh we might be, if we keep playing like that, I’m much less confident of our chances of picking up the necessary points.
I have doubts that the current setup/style is as effective as that which we were playing at the back end of last season. That’s it. And I’m fairly comfortable that results and performances back that up.Do you have serious doubts Pep knows what he's doing?
Surprisingly our team are donkeys and do better when there are more games in a period. If we give them a couple of weeks off I expect them to turn up looking like they never have kicked a ball before in their life. So more games suits our lot.unless lets say after the first Porto games Saka will be out injured for 6 weeks, then next Porto game Odegaard will be out for 2 months.
and add in the tiredness factor.
I have doubts that the current setup/style is as effective as that which we were playing at the back end of last season. That’s it. And I’m fairly comfortable that results and performances back that up.
Pep’s a genius. You’ll go a long way to find anyone who rates him higher than I do. Head and shoulders the best coach in the world, one of the very best of all time. But I still reckon it’s ok to question some of his decisions every now and then.
Here’s hopingI agree. But it's difficult to play the same setup/style when the players are not the same. Some of them left, other were injured, and still other are not in form (yet).
Think we'll hit form soon enough.
Could be a glorious month and it probably will be given that we'll be favourites to win in every match we playMarch is going to be brutal for us.
nail on the headOur best team is the one that played mid week, you could argue Akanji for Walker based on last season
if we can play it enough times in the league we will win it again , if we don’t, we wont
our reserves aren’t as good this season as previous years , Doku , Kovacic and Nunes aren’t trusted for big games yet