I rewatched the whole match last night with a critical eye. I expected I would find fault with Dokus performance but on analysis he played pretty well. They were terrified of him and had Dalot and Garnacho marking him all the time.
He played some great balls through and around the constant 2 markers on him into the box into players feet. No really daft take ons. We want him to run at defenders and take them on. He'll lose posession sometimes, it's the way it is.
Hes this years fall guy subject to the pile on. I'm prepared to give the lad a break. He's not been perfect, neither has Nunes. Have some people learned nothing about adaptation. He's young, has errant faults in his game to play in a Guardiola side that the boss will slowly iron out. Pep will make him better the more he coaches him.
If you want to have a pop at anyone from yesterday the defending across the back 4 for their goal was shambolic, from Ake playing rat face onside to Dias poor challenge and Walkers complete absence. I'll give Eddy a pass on that one, nobodys saving that. That's the second time in a few weeks we've conceded from hoofball. We have to be better. Better still have a go at Haaland for that clusterfuck in front of goal my arthritic ridden grandma could have nodded in when we were 0-1.
Ill re-itterate what I said in the motm thread, that's twice in succession at home we've murdered them. Last year was a shotgun blast. This year we put our hands around their throat and squeezed until they stopped breathing.
Laughably ETH the deluded Dutchmam thinks they nearly won the game with 1 shot on target and their fans are happy we didn't smash them. That happy the mostly fucked off home before the end.
Imagine derby games where you are utterly passed to death, outplayed in every department, olayed for 10 minutes at the end and have a total of 25% posession the most of which is your goalkeeper wasting time and feigning injury. Your manager then comes out and tries to gaslight you that they were good and nearly won the game citing a dive from your player folliwing a touch from Walker that Durex would be proud of. They are a fucking embarrassment. They won't get top 4 and at this point with Scousepool and Arsenal still to play might not get European football at all. Let's hope they don't, fail FFP and are in the shite. Scruffy Jim no doubt thoroughly enjoyed that, no camera shots of him and purple nose smiling in the stands this year.
Let's hope they sack the Dutch fraud and have to start all over again. What a circus. Bring on the clowns!
