Worryingly, I find myself agreeing. We have to do much better than that.We have slowly morphed from a high pressing, energetic team into an AVB clone, playing turgid sideways football hoping to bore the opposition to death. Depressing to see, Poch needs to somehow get a grip but showing no signs
Ok so 270 mins of turgid football now to add to a very poor run of form and similar performances for the 2nd half of last season, you still think people are knee jerking? Squad not good enough and Poch has run out of ideas.Yes exactly so let's not judge after 180 mins of football has been played. You're willing to use these two matches as evidence to say that Liverpool have built their team better than ours is quite simply knee jerk nonsense.
I'm not going through the last season debate again, Liverpool had a better squad than ours and they bought well, no one's disagreeing with that so I don't understand why that keeps being brought up?
As I keep saying but you keee ignoring, get our key players back on the pitch and our new ones up to speed then we can talk.
I know Newcastle parked the 5-4-1 bus today but fuck me we were so boring and have been for a fair while especially compared to what we were 2-3 seasons agoWe've gone from arguably being the best team to watch in 2016/17 (most goals scored, fewest conceded) to one of the worst.
Spot fucking on.Right so anyone who thinks our style of play will be any better this season is living in dreamland. If you factor:
1 - we have lost Walker at RB and have never replaced him.
2 - Verts (our best CB) is in some stupid tiff with our manager.
3 - we have lost Dembele and only replaced him this year (2 years too late)
4 - we signed Sessegnon and he is injured.
5 - Ndombele is injured.
6 - Lo Celso was signed too late.
7 - Eriksen isn’t being played despite saving our asses against Villa.
8 - tactics are hideously wrong, from the diamond formation, to Lamela being our main attacking presence when he clearly isn’t good enough, to Son and Moura blocking Kanes positions and stifling him.
9 - Pochs continuous moaning and griping with the press and cryptic statements that drive a lot of us mad and must have an effect on the players.
10 - 15 points from our last 15 premier league games which is very real relegation form.
I’m not sure we quite do to be honest mate, we could play similarly with the below but a front 3 of Kane son Lucas is no where near mane Firminiho salah and city have far far better world class creative midfielders such as : KDB, D & B. silva and we only have erisken who isn’t quite as good as them and is on his way out.What is so frustrating is that we have the players to play like Pool and City in the final third but... we just don't.
It's not rocket science the way that they play but Poch insists to play narrow and slow.
Basically we've gone backwards in the last 3 yearsRight so anyone who thinks our style of play will be any better this season is living in dreamland. If you factor:
1 - we have lost Walker at RB and have never replaced him.
2 - Verts (our best CB) is in some stupid tiff with our manager.
3 - we have lost Dembele and only replaced him this year (2 years too late)
4 - we signed Sessegnon and he is injured.
5 - Ndombele is injured.
6 - Lo Celso was signed too late.
7 - Eriksen isn’t being played despite saving our asses against Villa.
8 - tactics are hideously wrong, from the diamond formation, to Lamela being our main attacking presence when he clearly isn’t good enough, to Son and Moura blocking Kanes positions and stifling him.
9 - Pochs continuous moaning and griping with the press and cryptic statements that drive a lot of us mad and must have an effect on the players.
10 - 15 points from our last 15 premier league games which is very real relegation form.
I’m not sure we quite do to be honest mate, we could play similarly with the below but a front 3 of Kane son Lucas is no where near mane Firminiho salah and city have far far better world class creative midfielders such as : KDB, D & B. silva and we only have erisken who isn’t quite as good as them and is on his way out.
Ndombele
Lo celso
Sissoko
Lucas
Kane
Son
That’s not good enough for 4-3-3 in my opinion but we’ve never tried it so I could be wrong, it may at least be more effective than the shit we are serving up currently.