Andy

They are crap and have been for months. That is more damning on us though, unfortunately.

Said it before but our wingers consistently look shite because we have almost zero goal threat through the middle. Even though Gordon has been decent up top, he's still relatively easy to mark as a lot of the time he's coming deep to collect the ball. His movement in the box isn't really a significant threat. All you have to do against us is double up on the wide men and we're basically nullified. The games where we've looked effective going forward are the games where the opposition haven't done this and have tried to take the game to us.

I feel for him as the club as a whole is a mess and has been badly mismanaged from the very top. There are obviously a lot of factors that have led to the results we're seeing on the pitch. However, I do wonder whether his tactics have become redundant in the new look Premier League for this season, where almost every team has evolved to become as athletic, intense and robust as we have been in previous seasons, but where almost every team also look like they have far more guile and control than us too. People will say it's not on him, but a lot of the tactical issues are and it's up to him to sort that and the mentality of the players out. I'm not in the "get rid" camp but he needs to evolve himself again as a manager. The league has changed, when we try to emulate our previous style it falls flat and teams quickly exploit the spaces we leave and strangle us. Our ridiculous fixture list hasn't helped, but we've not adapted to that adequately at all and I think the problems are more nuanced than that anyway. We don't really look "tired" to me, we just look an incoherent mess with no consistent gameplan or strategy to see games like this out.

These cunts have won 5 premier league games in 16 since the start of December btw. We make up 2 of those. The others are against Burnley, Leeds and Palace. They've scored twice in 2 of those 16 games before today, against Burnley and Palace. The word "embarrassing" was thrown around and debated a lot this week; losing against these back to back is far, far more embarrassing than anything that happened over in Spain.

Nobody try to tell me we aren't allowed be angry or emotional about this second half performance and result. Absolutely shocking, our mentality is pathetic.

We were exactly the same with Bruno in the team

Difficult to have confidence in the club handling it that way after the Isak thing, though. Can't stand Romano but after last summer I'm not sure how people can just dismiss rumours like this as shit stirring or rubbish. If the right offer comes in for any player we will sell, and from Bruno's perspective, I've watched the sport long enough to know that kissing the badge and glazing the fans in interviews and on social media can quickly mean nowt once a move is on the table. We'll see how it plays out but I'm expecting another turbulent summer tbh.

I don't think it's tosh like, he ran the ball out of play and gave it away extremely cheaply a good few times. He's given himself a platform to build on with those goals but his overall performance was still below par IMO.

I also think the format is shite personally. Most of the games in the league stage feel akin to watching low stake Europa League matches, there was only really the PSG game where it felt like anything was on the line, and even then there really wasn't that much on the line. The group format was much better, it actually felt like good teams could be knocked out and you also had the added sauce of a second fixture against a team if there was some spice carrying over from the first fixture. The entire competition just felt like a bit of inconvenience to me, barely mustered any excitement for it and was just waiting for the inevitable demise at this stage.

There's definitely a mentality/concentration issue. It's hard to put your finger on it but it's no coincidence that we constantly concede late goals and daft goals, and goals only minutes after we've scored ourselves. Could just put it down to fatigue but it's been happening since the start of the season.

The second half performance and scoreline is definitely a bit embarrassing like, it's daft to dig people out for saying that. We're playing a very good Barcelona team but its not their Xavi, Messi and Iniesta side. There's no point being in the Champions League if we have the mentality of thinking conceding 7 soft goals is alright because of who the opposition are.

They'll get found out by a more experienced team, they're way too open compared to the likes of PSG.

Hard to describe how bad our defending has been. Aye "it's Barcelona" but they're no better than the best teams in the premier league, it's not an excuse for completely capitulating.

Learn from that and get Tino on at half time please, Eddie.

We were naive in those last few minutes like Shearer says, just see the game out. Incredibly hard to swallow after such a solid performance.

Yamal celebrating with a smug cunt face like he hasn't just given a 1/10 performance.

Some perspective needed tonight, taking the opposition into account and the ridiculous run of games we've had with a threadbare squad. Still some elements worthy of criticism though, particularly the Wolte experiment which has to stop. Nick Pope aside, I'd rather see pretty much anyone else in today's squad starting in midfield against City. It clearly isn't working and is catastrophic against any team that presses aggressively.

We'd be better off with 10 men than Wolte in midfield at times, he's a complete liability for us on the ball in our defensive third.

Really poor tracking by Barnes for their goal

Very good tonight as others have said. He's given himself a platform to build off.

The goal was completely Hall's fault.

No other team in the race for 7th should be finishing above us. Regardless of how the season has gone, it should still be what Eddie is targeting.

We've given ourselves a mountain to climb to catch 7th, by the end of the next two fixtures 8th could be looking similar. Frustrating as today should've been the ideal opportunity to kick-start a strong end to the season and go into these fixtures with some confidence. We look less cohesive and effective than basically all of the teams we're chasing unfortunately. Hard to see that changing at the moment.

My concern with him has always been consistency and output tbf. Been pretty clear on that in all of my posts.

Maybe Eddie can see something I can't, but for me we should be looking to recoup some of our money in the summer while he still has good value. Never really looked a striker even when he was scoring goals, doesn't remotely look a midfielder. Whatever he is, I can't see him fitting into our system and I don't think we should be changing it to suit him.