15 Apr 2024 12:26:45
We were flying even with the kids onboard playing exciting football. Then came the Utd FA cup tie, a boxing game we should have won but thrown away. That after a bizarre decision to ditch the youngsters and play a near full strength team in the 2nd leg against Sparta Prague.
That seems like the turning point of our season. Perhaps over the international break the coaching staff have too much time to over complicate things, trying to regain control of games by playing the slow and laboured build up way.
But that just does not suit us at all. I was screaming at the TV during the first half of Atlanta game. The backline drops so deep trying to draw Atlanta to press, but when they press, we have no movement or courage to play out from the back. Kelleher would just launch the ball long. The gap between the defence and forward is so big, every single time Atlanta is winning the second ball.
The rot seems to then spread. During the Palace game, simple 5-10 yards passes are going out of play under no pressure. When being pressured, we were trying to make 2 yard passes to teammates that resulted in them being pressed and the loss in possession.
It is just so frustrating and unbelievable that the team is unrecognisable, now that we have the senior players returning from the injury crisis.
A season that had promised so much, seems to have completely collapsed in the past couple of weeks.
3-0 down in the Europa league QF.
City with 2 points lead in the lead. They don't drop points at the home straight do they.
Klopp turned us from doubters to believers.
I choose to believe we have 10 games remaining, and treble is still on. Let's go red.
15 Apr 2024 12:58:05
When all the players started coming back from injury they immediately walked back into the side, a terrible decision.
The youngsters who gave us a bit of fire, McConnell, Clark and Danns, were discarded. They had yards in their legs, nobody could blame them for being tired and in Danns we have our most clinical striker (shots per goals) and he barely gets a look in. If you’re good enough, you’re old enough.
I don’t care about the reputation of Diaz, Nunez, Gakoo or even Salah, if you’re not scoring you should get dropped. A “what if” scenario, a “he’ll always grab you a goal late on” is only any use when it is a true. To not score against Palace is atrocious. Utterly defenceless. They had Hennessy in goal for crying out loud!
I don’t think I can ever recall a more profligate side under Klopp. The front three are as prolific as Ngog or Balotelli at the moment.
As for the goals we are conceding … I would be here for days …
Sad whimper of an end to a season is looking more likely than the bang we were anticipating.
15 Apr 2024 13:37:31
We decided to use the international break to (again) try and impersonate Brighton.
We have all the pace, power and verticality, and we choose to try to play De Zerbi-ball.
15 Apr 2024 21:22:08
FlyPelicanFly not saying I agree BUT that last line of yours really made me laugh.
15 Apr 2024 21:58:05
StEtienneAmen, Dean Henderson was in goal for Palace.
17 Apr 2024 00:13:46
Autocorrect Rigsby … Too much brandy.