Kane scored a great goal and sprayed some good passes around. Thought he played pretty well in the second half .. he did his job.
Our spine bar Kane was basically torn out, even some of the worlds best teams would struggle under those circumstances against a team like Barcelona. With our depth issues it was always going to hit hard, we were relying on Winks and Wanyama to hold down the middle, and neither have had a good run of games in a while. Then you're taking away Vertonghen who was one of our most reliable players last season, and instead partner Sanchez with Toby. Then you have Eriksen and Alli out who are two of our biggest attacking/creative threats, so really it's no surprise Barcelona were on a different level. Nobody in our defence or midfield looked comfortable, Lloris was nervy and only just returning after injury, the CB partnership is pretty untested aside from in the 3, and the midfield was missing several of its key influences.
I came away not too unhappy with the result under those circumstances, sure I was furious with some of the defending against Messi but we showed fight in the second half but were simply outclassed. Like others have said, it was the result vs Inter that was the real kick in the teeth, an absolute joke to lose after leading till the 85th minute. That's really fecked our CL campaign, you simply cannot throw away games like that and hope to qualify. Now we need to be perfect and even then it isn't in our own hands.
