Sanchez was diabolical last week. Martial was anonymous yesterday. Can’t you see how subjective your opinion is, that Sanchez outperformed Martial last week? Even if it’s true, it’s a moot point given just how insanely bad Sanchez was last week. The discussion should not be centred on who is less shit, but on why we are so toothless going forward. I have no fecking idea why, I don’t claim to know, but quite clearly there is some sort of issue beyond merely our player personnel. Both are good players - why can’t they, and many others within this team, fulfil their potential?
Sanchez created 2 good opportunities for team-mates, had a couple of through balls superbly intercepted by defenders, won some free-kicks when the team needed them, and did his bit tracking back.
Don't get me wrong. Sanchez did not have a good game. He was far too wasteful and seems to have lost that spark. But he was a 5/10 and at least offered something, compared to Martial who was 3/10 and offered absolutely nothing. He may as well not be on the pitch.
I get what you mean though. We're debating who was more shit at a very early stage of the season.
I don't really know buddy what the answer is to improving our attacking play across the team. The front 3 really need to show more creativity and confidence, the midfield need to be getting the ball to them more often in good positions, the circus in defence didn't help anyone, the players needed to show more energy and fight in the second half (looks like they realised they couldn't win after 50 minutes), the manager and coaching staff need to look at what they're doing all week to result in a performance like that. Everywhere you look, everyone could be doing better.
Very depressing. Hope we can string 4 or 5 wins together and forget about this, but I'm not sure how strong we are mentally, and think another poor performance isn't too far away.