“Excuse brigade”
Nah we were certainly shit, but I’m not about to wet the bed over a few dodgy performances given that we are top of the league with a side full of talent.
Teething issues that will be overcome.
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Nah, his mistakes v Palace were comical.
Out of curiosity what was the last match we played well in over 90 minutes?
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I’d like to know if any team has played well over 90 mins, I get your overall point this looks total dog shit but teams don’t play well for 90 mins.
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Two uncharacteristically crap managerial performances back to back from Slot. Chelsea will absolutely be there for the taking at the weekend so a great opportunity to turn it around again.
OK, a good cohesive performance where we actually look like a competent football team.
Probably Spurs.
I do think Ath Madrid was decent mind.
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Well that was a shyte night all around. Hope Hugo and Ali get better soon.
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We played well for 50 or so mins there.
I think that’s the concerning aspect instead of this increasing it’s falling back.
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Not too sure about that now…
Slot needs to wake up sharpish…shifting Wirtz every fucking where is not gonna help in helping him settle. Either he plays CAM or the most as a CM. The starting line up is also a disgrace as well…RW for Wirtz?!
Whoever who is advising him to do that slow, ponderous and passing sideways for the sake of passing shit ought to be sacked.
I’m very close to this. I would do a midfield diamond, Grav at the base, Wirtz at the tip, and two from Isak, Ekitike and Salah up front. Plenty of minutes for all of them, and fitness and form should determine who gets more, not your name.
I think this will be more solid than what we’ve seen so far this season.
As things stand I do not think we are very good out wide. So let’s change it! Frimpong and Kerkez can give some width from the fullback position, using their stamina, but the days of 4-3-3 should be ditched, imho, unless we are going to unearth another peak Mane and peak Salah.
As for the CL game, we huffed and puffed but it is clear it’s not clicking.
We can still remain hopeful. We will improve. There’s too much quality not to. And last season PSG started out in poor form, only to get stronger as the competition wore on. By the time we met we were sliding just past our peak and they were ascending to theirs.
We learned last season that there’s not a lot to be gained from finishing top. If we manage it along the way and qualify for the knockout stage, bring it on. A better ranking system needs to emerge to seed the knockout teams effectively, but in the absence of that, qualifying is all that matters. In the league stage there is room for a misbobble or two.
Obviously you don’t want to make a habit of losing, or playing poorly, so even though we can still remain hopeful for the season ahead, at some point soon we need to see the performance level start to click into gear. When it does, so long as we are still in touch, anything is possible.
I think this is going to be Salah’s final year with us. Wirtz, Isak and Ekitike is the future, possibly augmented by someone like Olise. Salah will never be disrespected because of his standing with us, and his quality is such that he will still get goals and assists. I hope we can win another Prem and/or CL before he departs.
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Haven’t seen this, and maybe wont bother, depressing enough reading this.
Whatever is going on needs sorting, yesterday,Chelski should be a breeze but right now doesn’t look like it.
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If this carries on, we either have to play an extra match or get knocked out entirely.
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Yes, it can’t carry on indefinitely, and at some point - the sooner the better - the performance level needs to improve and we need to click.
The key will be staying in touch at the top of the Prem, and gaining enough points to advance through the league stage in the CL, while we work our shit out.
There’s plenty of work for Slot and the squad to do.
For the CL last season’s PSG give me hope. They were well off the pace after the first 3-4 games, but they timed their peak to perfection.
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Unfortunately it’s much more than a few. Most of the time we can break down each game as, played well for 50%, average 30%, bad for 12% and terrible for 7%. As you can see the percentages do not add up to 100%, because the math was done by our team (Thanks Norm Macdonald)
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I maybe the only one but I don’t think Frimpong was awfull he was a threat and attacked there full back time after time, just needed better end product but he was far from awful for awful look at Ibou.
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I was actually ok with the 1st 30/35minutes, apart from the one chance and stupid penalty decision they caused us no real problems. I thought we responded well to their goal and had several good phases of play, but again like a lot of this season, just lacked that final ball.
We looked like we were in the ascendency and then the referee allowed them to play act, pretend they were injured, dive to buy fouls, which he duly gave freekicks for. It totally destroyed the tempo where it felt for the last 10/15 minutes of the 1st half the ball wasn’t in play and it was stop start.
2nd half though we had 10 minutes where it looked we might do something and it just petered out to nothing.
Yeah I was appalled at the number of misplaced passes we did especially later in the game when we were chasing; including by substitutes (eg Alexis) who should ahve been fresh. Poor excuse perhaps but the pitch didn’t look great and maybe this contributed.
Regardless we were very disappointing.
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