Nothing to see here.
Well, we could go on the offensive and ship 4 or 5 when we lose. Even playing this so-called negative stuff, we still get can’t defend properly. What chance we got when we play a more and expansive style?I don’t see how Jose can fail to see that we are nowhere near good enough individually defensively to invite teams to attack us for 90 minutes. You may get the odd game where you ride your luck and it works, but it’s clear for all to see it’s not a sustainable recipe for success against the big sides. Christ, it isn’t a reliable recipe for success against the pissant teams that we’ve dropped points to playing that way
Well we'd be more likely to score more for a start.Well, we could go on the offensive and ship 4 or 5 when we lose. Even playing this so-called negative stuff, we still get can’t defend properly. What chance we got when we play a more and expansive style?
Do you remember the glory days under Ossie? Nah, me neither.Well we'd be more likely to score more for a start.
I’d take Lloris off that list but otherwise agree completely!!Lloris
Reguilon
Rodon
Hojbjerg
Kane
Son
Ndombele
Lo Celso
Tanganga
It is actually easier to just list the players you’d definitely keep and are good enough. The rest need shifting as soon as possible. I suppose with Levy in charge, that’ll be sometime next decade.
You really haven't watched us much have you?
I didn't think it was that bad. We had a gameplan that has worked very well against big teams and today it didn't work out.
The first half was fine...they had a couple moments but the biggest one would have been called back for Mane being offside in the buildup. Apart from that it wasn't as if they looked like they would inevitably score. We had the Son goal harshly disallowed, and apart from that there were SEVERAL chances to get a through ball behind their defense and score - the final ball just wasn't good enough and 3 or 4 times it was just a really poor pass under minimal pressure, so I think that was disappointing.
The game swung in stoppage time in the first half. Just a disastrous goal to concede and one very sloppy moment at the back. Doherty started it off keeping everyone onside but even then, the fact that neither Lloris or Dier get that ball cleared is pathetic. Just shambolic stuff. That moment cost us the match.
It was always going to be a game where the first goal won it. Neither team can break down a low block, as we've seen the past month or two. Liverpool got the goal today, but I honestly think that had the Son goal counted, we walk away with a 1-1 at the absolute minimum.
So in that sense I'm not upset with the first half gameplan. The final ball was really disappointing, and the goal we conceded was pathetic, but apart from that I thought things were fairly comfortable.
The second half of course, was pathetic. Kane coming off, Aurier coming off, the formation switch that pitted Doherty vs Mane, Winks coming in...absolutely killed us. Had no chance from the 45th minute onwards. Our goal was just a wonderstrike, but we didn't create a thing and they could easily have had more on the counter.
The thing is, it doesn't surprise me at all. We can't break down teams when they sit in. We are vulnerable on the counter with that back 4 we had the 2nd half. The end result was pretty predictable when we stepped out with that 11 2nd half down 1-0 against a team that can counter like Liverpool can. It's very disappointing that we can't play better when we're not counterattacking ourselves, and that we can't dominate teams, but I'm used to it at this point.
Ultimately, the first goal was vital, and we didn't get it. On another day with better passing and without that terrible Hugo/Dier messup we probably get something sometimes playing like that. But there's still a pretty clear gap in quality between the sides, and Jose's problem is that when you lose games playing like this, you don't get the forgiveness you do when losing games playing like we did under Poch.
Or, alternatively, I support the team and try and look for positives instead of turning this place into a cesspool of when we don't play like peak Barca.
The team has been cack for a few years now. I wonder how many on here lived through the 90s.
Just watched the highlights back now.Am I wrong but it looked like Lloris was partially - or even fully - at fault for all 3 goals