clintdempsey

Dubs has some weaknesses no doubt. As has Pope. Neither is good enough for our aspirations since their deficiencies affect the way we can set up (on separate facets) unfortunately. If PIF could invent a machine where we could melt them down and combine their strengths we'd still be short of aerial dominance but that'd be better at least.

We were terrible. And they were good. Nothing more to it than that. It's one game. If we look like this for the next 3-4 games I'd start to worry a bit - not in a "Change the manager/We're on a hiding to nothing/We're going backwards"-way mind.

We were rumoured to be looking at Huijsen this summer but seemed to put all eggs in the Guehi-basket instead. We were linked with Kerkez a few years ago as well. We're there, we just need to find a way to take more "risks" in the market I'd say.

We were really, really poor all game long. And they were good. We made a bad decision or execution on so many levels. They didn't. We weren't comfortable in possession. They were. We gifted them two or maybe three of their goals. We had an off day (I hope). They didn't. Simple as that. Frustrating and disappointing to say the least. But it's still nine wins in the last ten games. And we have a week to rest and regroup ahead of a winnable game. Bournemouth were good, they came with a plan and executed it well. I'm sure we had a plan as well but we were severely lacking in the fundamentals today imo. Poor passing out, a lot of unforced errors (Burn a couple of times, Schär within minutes of coming on). Anyways, we go again. This won't break our push for CL.

The fact that we’ve won nine in a row does not make this in any way a good or even OK effort. This has been extremely frustrating. Bournemouth are obviously well coached but we’ve gifted them both goals. And haven’t really created anything at all. Mindblowingly poor performance. And there’s a third as well. From a mistake again.

How a team that has won 9 games in a row can suddenly be this crap and make this many errors is a bit strange. Every single player is miles off it today.

Crowd doesn’t seem up for this at all today. Not that the team are giving them much to cheer. We’ve been unbelievably lackadaisical today so far.

Come on lads. Turning this around is possible and would be so, so important.

Again. I think we’ll win this. But it’s been our worst half since Brentford away. We’ve been terrible.

What the fuck is Burn doing today?

Feels like we’ve gone back to sleep. 😴

Still think we’ll win this. Doesn’t make our start any less sloppy or shit though.

We look like we’re sleeping. They’re way more on it so far and deservedly in front of

Fucking hell.

We’re not really out of the blocks yet. Sloppy start.