Matt1892

How many loans can we have at one time?

He’s a left sided centre back isn’t he?

Again, we are not complaining about the quality of our starting eleven as an excuse for why we didn’t beat Bournemouth, even if we could put together a better hypothetical outfield team with players that are injured. Our issue with injuries meant we could not make any changes when players were showing fatigue. That is a completely different situation to what you are complaining about, which is your poor performances have been down to better players being out injured. If you can’t see the difference, despite it being pointed out to you a couple of times now then it isn’t worth wasting time discussing it.

We haven’t been using injuries as an excuse for poor performances though, which is what you were doing before the Champions League games had kicked off. There has been very few complaints about the starting eleven and the quality of those players we have had to put out this season despite suffering with a number of injuries, the complaint yesterday is around not being able to change players who are suffering with fatigue due to being down to the bones squad wise. That is a completely different scenario to what you were complaining about through September, where you put your poor form in the league down to having some of your better players missing.

Isn’t it that Froggy was complaining about injuries as an excuse for their poor performances as they were not able to put out their best eleven before the Champions League had even got going? Where as the moans with injuries on here are down to the state of the bench we could put out for Bournemouth and not being able to change an already exhausted team from Dortmund midweek. Although as Supertoon says, if it grinds your gears then why come on here and read it?

Do we even play with that much intensity now? The level of our press feels like it dropped off towards the end of last season and hasn’t been anywhere near that level since, apart from Gordon and Almiron in the wide areas. We do need better technical players but we also need to sort the midfield shape out, as I can’t think of another top team that plays a flat midfield three and prefer a double pivot with an attacking midfielder linking up with the striker. You notice against the better teams who are prepared to come out and match us how isolated the striker is and that we still leave space for an intelligent player to drop in between our midfield and defence.

I didn’t think he stood out for us and it was one of the worst team performances we have had since the takeover, hopefully he gets more chances this season.

Burn is defensively very good but he doesn’t offer a great deal to the team going forward from open play, Hall is more your typical modern fullback in that he is the opposite. He didn’t get to show his ability going forward today as our performance and tactics were terrible.

I will tell you what is worse than the guy arguing with Trippier, that is the fan who thought it best to film it and put it on Twitter.

Like who?

Then you get rid of one of the injury prone players and replace them with someone who isn’t.

Tactically we were really poor, we set up like we were playing Man City away not Bournemouth.

Great save Pope

It is easy to look like that when you are playing a team that is sitting back and not looking to get forward.

Walking through us now.

We set up here for this one like we did at the Etihad earlier in the season.

Our team would still have cost more than theirs.

Hire them a minibus to drive back up in.

Terrible

Livramento should have taken control for their goal rather than leaving it for Schar.

Only Pope comes away from that half with any credit.

I can think of two and one of them was down to him jogging out from the middle and Schar casually walking out so playing Semenyo on side.

Someone said it was Maddison who was bringing the best out in Son, which would explain why he wasn’t in the game at all today.

Wolves have deserved this.

Six minutes injury time