They do but they’ve also drawn and lost a few games this season. They aren’t the team they were and even city have like against us.The difference is for Liverpool it’s an outlier, 99% of the time they find a way for us we never look like we know how to break teams down.
its not easy but we have a team of runners, functional players lacking multi dimensional facets to their games and we need to recruit players who can contribute in more ways
It did but also when your players are that tired they don’t perform at their best. The best chance fell to Moura from a great Doherty pass but Moura messed up the control due to tiredness I think.The attempts were all pretty much straight at Forster, we didn’t create any guilt edged chances that left us kicking ourselves for missing. 22 attempts on goal and they were all pretty much half chances. The best opportunity fell to Borja? in injury time.
to be honest we just take this, ref cost us the game and we move on.
We are still undefeated and there are a lot of games for us to go… more than half the season so let’s rest up now and beat Watford to get back to winning ways.
our squad isn’t good enough we know that but like many teams we are hampered by injuries and to be honest conte made mistakes and is clearly still learning about our squad. Alli was wasted out of position and the weird decision to play players on their wrong foot at wing backs was poor.
I don’t think winks was that bad but he struggled under the high press which a lot of players do but he still has a role I personally think and can provide a half decent bf squad option but it depends what conte wants.
I think we do need kessie personally as we could have rested hojberg yesterday who clearly wasn’t fit,
we came up against a well rested team on a small pitch that pressed high and kicked us off the park first half. The ref cost us the game and on a day if we were well rested and didn’t play 45 hours before I’m sure we would have won. But we live and learn.
we still haven’t had a pre season and we still need to change our squad to suit how we want to play and that is obvious.
Ndombele is clearly done, yesterday was perfect for him and he wasn’t trusted so we have to find a way to move him on and if we sell him for half of what we bought him for so be it, we need him out the club and his wages reinvested and if that is on kessie then fine.
we need Doherty replaced with a player who suits our formation and we clearly need a new striker and another wide option because berg needs moving on and Gil isn’t trusted or ready yet.
in that situation bringing on a bulldozer like vlahovic would have been perfect to help us get another goal.
We have to act like big club and sign good players, even though they’re below us I’m envious of Leicester’s recruitment, lookman was a great squad buy who was prem proven, daka was a cheap great option too and they also bought soumere who would suit our formation.
People are over reacting and this kind of game happens to every club. Southampton drew with city and should have won and beat Liverpool.
we are basically in January let’s see what our recruitment is and let’s keep the squad moving.
I personally think yesterday was a good thing, people were getting ahead of themselves even talking about they’re not sure where we need invest and how alli etc were good squad players blah blah, yet now it’s clear we have to move players on and continue our squad development.
we are still in touch with 4th, still have a semi final to come and are still undefeated under conte so let’s keep the spirits high and continue the development and if we finish 6th-4th it’s a great season for us.
COYS!