Wolves (H) Post-Match Thread

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

Do you think he should be arrested for all those criminal acts? How long do you think he’ll serve?

Why not comment on the match yourself, give us your insightful opinion instead of trying to belittle other's opinions? It wouldn't be so bad if you were actually funny.

 

[ShaunMCFC]

Yes he’s quick, fast and he’s got pace. He is fucking crap

Wouldn't say it to his face though, unit

 

[super_city_si]

I think he would love to have that Chelsea side right now. Young talented players and who are willing to take on board his philosophy.

Wtf. Zinchenko, Garcia, foden, Jesus, sane,

 

[abu13]

I would be interested to see how we would look with Rhodri at centre back and Ferny back in the midfield.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

Most worrying thing for me was not even the defence(not that it's not worrying). That is almost a given with otamendi(way past it) there, the current version of walker, zinchenko and a new player just coming into the team having to play two positions in the same game basically leaving an ageing fernandinho having to carry and hold it by himself. It was just how clueless the front 5 looked including silva, gundogan. Without de bruyne providing that little bit of cutting edge the attack seemed totally bereft of ideas besides aimless putting in high crosses for players barely 5 ft against 6 ft plus defenders. I'm struggling to think of a clear cut chance they created between them and when your best attacking outlet is a full back who just came into the team serious questions needs to be answered.

I'm a big fan of his but Sterling has had a couple of these games like this where unless he is getting behind the defence or at the end of passes/crosses he becomes useless and goes into hiding. He seemed to offer much more than just goals last season with his all round play but barring a couple of games he's basically been just there for the goals this season and without that to mask his performances they've varied from mediocre to downright poor.

Without sane and de bruyne, the team loses a cutting edge and against teams who play even a bit organised the play becomes slow, pedestrian and predictable with continuous aimless crosses. aguero and sterling are basically the only scoring threat as they at least provide a bit of movement and threat in the box but outside of that the team look bereft of ideas in attack at least this season without de bruyne in particular.

With all that said I'm not going to be one of those making hyperbolic statement about the league being over etc. There's a long season to go and this team has given at least from last season enough reasons to not give up on them. A mixture of injuries to very key players, new players having to bed into a demanding system and and a couple of important ones being totally out of form(d.silva, walker) has resulted in the current situation. Now pep and the players have to buckle up their ideas and find a way to counter these issues and do so fast before it really gets worse. A 7 point deficit in october is not enough to throw the towel in and thankfully I'm sure pep and the players know that. There were probably many who totally wrote the team off last season aswel when they lost 3 in the space of 4 games during november and they still managed to come back and that was without de-bruyne for most of it and with liverpool getting as much luck as they are this season.

Yes that today was a poor performance on all accounts and a totally deserved result for wolves who played counter attacking football how it should be and a 5-0 scoreline wouldn't have flattered them. But this is a a team, manager and squad of players that've won 5 of the last 6 available domestic trophies and showed a mentality last season that very few teams would be able to show to come from behind in the league barring the circumstances. I'm certain they will find a way to come out this bad period as they have the past 2 seasons so now is not the time to start throwing in the towel.

Good post. Neither Mahrez or Sterling seemed to be stretching play in the way that, say, Sterling and Bernardo/Sane did in the past couple of years. So everything is going through the middle or we are putting long balls into the box in front of their back 4 which they are so comfortable with.

 

[Keeper!]

I would be interested to see how we would look with Rhodri at centre back and Ferny back in the midfield.

This team is F***d up already, Rodri has been one of the seasons best players

 

[bluemc1]

Was already thinking we’re missing to many big players to catch them but that was shocking cos it looked like we’d give up, never thought we would do that
We ain’t winning it this year so get Foden in now every game, I’ve not got big downer on Gundo but I’m afraid I’d swap his and Foden playing time around now
We can’t win it every year boys and girls so for me it’s better to not have a sniff than hoping all season

 

[kaz7]

Davis is not a Captain.

He did fine for the centurians and most of last season

 

[super_city_si]

3 years ago it was age that crippled us. I think it is the same this season. Liverpool are not going away as they have a young team, while we will lose Silva, Aguero and Ferna soon. It will be be lot harder this season.

Bottom line is they need a spectacular collapse for us to have et chance!

It’s annoying because she shouldn’t be a problem. We have youth he just won’t play them. I’d love to know Bernardo isn’t trusted in the middle again.

 

[grifter]

Flat from the off and some car crash defending from Ota. Gundogan kills the team unless he’s playing as a lone pivot, not sure why Pep can’t see this.

Also support was pathetic today, thousands leaving when Wolves scored with plenty of time to get back in the game. Why not stay and help the team rather than throwing in the towel?