West Brom (h) post-match thread

What you mean if city played didnt hit them with pin point accuracy directly at the goallies feet for an easy save? Thats interesting .....PEP!
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
Tonight was absolutely indefensible, a truly awful performance and one which has summed up every single problem we have as a club.

Points dropped to another 1-shot-1-goal team. Suckerpunched for probably the 15th time now in the last couple of years.

It was obvious what WBA were going to do - sit back in numbers and defend. If we'd have got an early goal it would've been a different story but we just start - and finish - so slowly it rarely happens now. In fact, t's hard to tell what minute we're in watching the game as from minute 1 to 90 it's slow, predictable and dull.

It was clear the game was drifting from the 30th minute and I didn't know what Walker or Aguero - both 30+ year olds - were supposed to do in the last 15 minutes against a tightly packed defence that the others couldn't do. Bizarre.

We made them look like 10 Kompany's at the back. I cannot understand why we needed to play Rodri and Gundogan, Dias and Ake against them. It's just not needed and I've said it before but against the bus-parkers, we should tempt them out - take Rodri out (or Gundogan or Ake) and put Bernardo on and see if the extra space tempts them out. I've said a million times that playing more than one of Rodri, Gundogan and Fern is criminal as they kill our game. The number of backward and crab passes tonight would have made Ray Wilkins proud.

Cancelo doesn't fit into our system and needs to be moved on. He's not a patch on Walker and every time he plays, he proves this. He's not good enough for us. Mendy is useless and I don't see any point in playing him - if he's better than our under-21 left backs, fuck them off as well as they aren't good enough.

Pumping crosses in against their big lads was as pointless as trying to thread balls between their back 7 - impossible. I don't rate the lad but if Mahrez is going to play then he should be able to cause WBA problems simply because he game is about close control and dribbling. If he's not going to get a game against WBA there's no fuckin point playing him against the rest of the league.

I find it very, very hard to defend Pep tonight. I'm a massive fan of his but he's not learning anything from these games. This has been going on for too long now. He has sorted the defence out but he has one month - January - to get this side sorted. I've a horrific feeling the club is waiting for Messi to join. That's why the contract extension has been signed as he needs Messi to win the CL.

I'll say this again to finish, but we've got to look at some of our players who are either not good enough (Mendy, Mahrez, Cancelo, Zinchenko), not performing (Bernardo), ageing (Walker) or saleable (KdB, Sterling, Stones this week) and think about selling some to bring in big money to totally revamp this side. Honestly, for me there's no player who's unavailable - we need a war chest to bring in top, top players.
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Everyone saying start Foden. He starts Foden who had a poor game. Everyone saying play Sterling on the right. He plays Sterling on the right - assist for the goal but nowhere near the level required. Play Gundogan - he does and yes he was the best of a bad bunch but he also missed a sitter near the end which we needed to go in. Pep carries the can and no one played last night. He needs to get them fired up and playing with speed and intensity again. Shooting from distance is clearly not a strength of Rodri's so tell him to cut it out. Embarrassing for a professional footballer to be so poor at shooting xx
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
No. Would you be as happy if Gundogan had blazed over the bar instead of scoring? Stupid post.
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It isn't a stupid post at all,it perfectly illustrates the fine margins and in some cases the overreaction.

Of course there is much work to do,but,amongst the frustration,there was some good football played last night and i'm pointing out that with a tad more luck we would have won by several goals.
 
stan bowles said:
Everyone saying start Foden. He starts Foden who had a poor game. Everyone saying play Sterling on the right. He plays Sterling on the right - assist for the goal but nowhere near the level required. Play Gundogan - he does and yes he was the best of a bad bunch but he also missed a sitter near the end which we needed to go in. Pep carries the can and no one played last night. He needs to get them fired up and playing with speed and intensity again. Shooting from distance is clearly not a strength of Rodri's so tell him to cut it out. Embarrassing for a professional footballer to be so poor at shooting xx
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totally agree about Rodri row Z everytime absolute rubbish.
 
Tommy_Catons_Perm said:
You're spot on about Delph compared to Mendy. I recall the match away at Chelsea in Peps second season a 1-0 win with De Bruyne scoring a screamer. It was good as anything seen in the prem. Conti and Chelsea were run ragged. And Delph was key because of his quick passing, one or two touches, pass and move. Too many players cant do that quick enough now.
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Where have you been ? I've stood up for Delphinio playing out of position and I get support 3 years to late ;-)
 
I think most of our attacking problems would be solved if we get a decent striker such as Haaland
Regardless of the number of chances, we need to be effective in the box and that is not going to happen with the current squad..
 
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