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Mediocre mentality
So your idea when we’re up against it is to bring on more players who don’t hold onto the ball? I mean you have a point. It worked so well vs SotonCould we have honestly been worse in that game? They played through our midfield like they weren't there. Our attacking was diabolical and knew we'd give it away anyway. A Sunday league team could have played against us in the second half and figured out within minutes how to play against us.
Throwing on McTominay for a tired Matic, Fred for a off the pace Fernandes/Pogba, Ighalo on earlier for Rashford who may as well have worn a West ham top is not rocket science. Our players had no energy. The answer isn't to leave them on and hope for the best when running on empty and needing them against a much tougher opposition in a few days time
Yep he was redundant today, Fred could have done the exact same job. I was hoping after the penalty he would come out raring to go in the second half but he shrank into himself, a characteristic of this team when the going gets tough.If this wasn't a giant, Madison Square Garden-billboard sized hint to the board about lacking squad depth, I don't know what it was. Absolute terrible football. Made Noble look like Pirlo.
I don't get Pogba's role in this game? He keeps passing to Matic / our defenders. What does he expect? You are the World Cup-winner, you are the one who cost £89mil. - maybe you should fecking try and do something.... terrible.
Silver lining is... if we don't get CL it's totally and utterly deserved and our own stupid fault. I would hate for us to miss top 4, had we been playing world class football for 8-10 games straight, and still not being able to make the cut. At least now we get face the reality that the best paid squad in the league don't have the cojones and spine to perform with just a grain of expectation...
This. I think Ole was hoping for that moment of individual brilliance from one of Rahford/Bruno/Pogba.5 subs available. 2 taken. When your team is so damn tired, make the most of the temporary 5 sub rule ffs.
And don’t make them so damn late.
If I'm not wrong after the break all teams who faced us had more days to rest than us. And Leicester will have 6-7 days and us 3 days.Bad, bad feeling about this. The legs are gone, and we go to a Leicester who've also had more rest than us. We're lucky these last couple of league games haven't been against top teams. We'd have been battered black and blue. This is worse than squeaky bum time now. Thankfully there's a good rest period before EL really resumes, seeing as we don't need the big boys for LASK. In case it comes to that. And oh...Declan Rice really is a very good player.
Let's hope we play better than we did in our last cup game.Cup final on Sunday now, Leicester will love what they've just seen. They'll have had a weeks rest and we look dead on our feet. If we're getting top 4, it's going to be scrappy.
Serious transfer window coming up if we're going to progress this team and squad, fielding the same XI in the CL and PL next season is going to cause us problems.
Stop being a drama queen. We are unbeaten in the league in ages and have a W5 D3 L0 record since the start. Better than anyone. We absolutely do deserve the Champions LeagueWe do not deserve the Champions League, and if we do end up in 3rd or 4th come Sunday afternoon, by god are we lucky to be there.
Holy shit was that bad. Last Home game of the season and they give that performance.
Once again, stumbling over the line and hoping for next season to come from. A far cry from finishing strong under SAF.
Fred and McTominay have barely played since the restart and they were part of that unbeaten run with wins against Chelsea and City. It’s shit man management that has gotten us to this stage.We have clawed back 15 points with looking down and out in Jan. Then we make moves and have an absolute stormer to get back into the mix. But, it seems it has come at a cost. We should get there but, the last 4 games or have been a bit of a slog. Not enough quality depth which is why Ole is reluctant to make subs. Tired performance from the team and hopefully, it's just enough left in the tank to get us over the line.
I think we're suffering from a lack of width more than anything central. The three midfielders are constantly trying to thread the eye of a needle because teams have identified we can't stretch the play too effectively. Greenwood isn't a winger and AWB doesn't offer enough offensively on the right. On the left today Rashford seemed content to cut inside and pass the ball backwards every time he received it and the less said about William's performance the better.Really poor, Matic has been shocking since getting his new contract, awful, awful performance from him needing 4+ touches when everyone else was taking 1, and gave away at least 3 silly fouls a way.
The same players are starting every match and are rarely getting subbed off. No rotation and no prioritising.I don't get how they are so tired, they had three months off!
It's kind of a miracle really Honestly if this goes wrong we should look at that summer and Ed's role in it. Luckily I think we'll get a result on Sunnday and he'll be let off the hook again.Pretty good given the pre season doom and gloom!
Pogba was the worst on the pitch by a country mile. If we swapped him with fecking Noble we likely would have won. That was a pathetic performance from him. At least Bruno works hard and tries things. Pogba tried nothing, didn't work hard, and gave away an embarrassing pen.I mean he wasnt the worst on the pitch. Look at Bruno barely made a completed pass all match.
lets not forget we also managed to turn the FA Cup game against Norwich into a 120 minute mess where the good majority of our starting 11 played a significant stint. bruno played 120 minutes ffs.Because largely the same 11 players have played every 3/4 days and the 1 half opportunity we had to rest them we didn’t.
The fact that we have 4 days of rest before Leicester is good to begin with. That's just about enough time for a good recovery. Should be okay to compete with Leicester. It will be a cup final for Champions League.9 matches in 29 days or something and it shows. Think that FA cup match might cost us top four. I dont know how we go up a gear on sunday.
And Ighalo is bang average. Think about that.. the only players on our bench that could make any kind of impact is bang average Ighalo that not even Watford wanted. Ole does not trust anyone on that bench, and i do not blame him.That's definitely a problem, we lack quality on the bench to come on and change a game and Ole knows it. Ighalo is probably the only one who can make an impact.
That’s a big if. Chelsea have done well recently so they could equally win both. Our job was always catching Leicester. Not ChelseaYes correct in terms of leciester. BUT a win would have been big because we could have lost to Leciester and still qualified if Chelsea draw both games or lose tonight and draw against wolves.
A win would definitely have been better than a draw!
I’m not excusing the performance or the tactics or the desire at all which are all independent of that. But it’s not bollocks at all. It’s basic sports science.Rubbish, these are professional athletes who have been back kicking playing games for a few weeks. Bollocks they need resting.
Paul Tierney