04 Oct 2025 19:39:39
Well. my optimism is waning.
They have 9 players out and lose their centrebacks.
500 million plus quid of attacking options and can't create a decent chance.
A right back and a centre back on the bench but the 2 players who've probably been our best performers all season and are midfielders end up at right back and centre back.
Some backsides need a kick, and that includes the coaching.
04 Oct 2025 19:57:32
I don't have much faith. Slot seems stuck in his weird player preferences
He must be seeing something else to give mac another start.
04 Oct 2025 19:58:42
Both teams played rubbish. Chelsea had a good excuse with all the injuries. Footballs not a difficult game. If Konate or vvd jump out and challenge the firstgoal and Robertson gets on his toes for the second it’s 3 points. What’s worrying is ending the game with 2 midfielders in the back 4, Robertson who’s finished at left back, bringing endo on and not taking salah off ?♂️. Bigger picture, this team will get better and better once it clicks. Hope we click before Xmas or it’s season over.
04 Oct 2025 20:03:35
Also don’t get my head around what’s stopping Writz from shooting? Why can’t he try and take a shot himself, is it the Coaching? Most probably yes.
And how on earth is Gakpo not hooked up and replaced after the goal, after an hour mark his doesn’t hold the ball, he doesn’t track back. No wonder Salah said Arsenal are favourites for title, coz don’t seem to understand what is Slots game plan?
04 Oct 2025 20:04:26
£450m and have our deep-lying midfielder finishing at CB and CM at right back. I’m really not sure what’s going on to be honest.
Very strange to have spent all that money and be so short on defensive options. And that’s before we even mention a 34 year old CB having to play every minute of every game. With the level of investment, this should absolutely not be happening. Leoni getting injured was very unfortunate but we clearly needed a new, oven-ready CB and Slot doesn’t fancy Frimpong at RB. We are in a bit of a mess truth be told.
04 Oct 2025 20:05:09
We lost so much when we sold Diaz. The pressing, the backtracking, forcing turnovers, beating players 1:1, counterattacking and we never replaced him. And honestly you can’t replace him. There are a small number of LW who are better offensively but none of them are as good defensively or off the ball. Just what it is but losing him has hurt us a lot
I won’t get into the tactics because a lot is being said in here already. But it’s worse when we play teams who just sit back in a low block all match.
Some of the players are just off. Touch is sh*t, can't make simple passes, crosses, hit the target. I’m assuming this won’t last much longer.
04 Oct 2025 20:11:36
We did have decent chances, mo had at least three, including the one that Flo made for him with his first touch of the game. Loss of concentration on both the Chelsea goals, first from Dom who had done such a good job on caicedo before that and second from robbo losing track of the situation developing with estevao.
Mo is very very badly off form, it is quite concerning. A Salah on form would have made a massive difference today, with the number of times he was in dangerous situations and the number of times isak was getting between the center halves waiting for something to come his way.
As much as I didn't want Dom ending up at right back again, garnacho was doing everything he could to get Bradley sent off and slot still doesn't trust frimpong at this early stage of the season. Not sure why he wouldn't put Gomez on at center half or right back though.
Overall I didn't think we played terribly, first half was pretty passive with mo and isak not pressing, with our lack of pressing intensity from the front being a big problem throughout the season, macca chasing shadows and mamardashvili kicking everything long and looking nervous on the ball.
04 Oct 2025 20:18:03
Ecogsi, Virgil couldn't come out to challenge, he was occupied by mala gusto who was looking to make a run in behind. Also robbo was playing pretty well until he fell asleep and wasn't alert enough to estevao getting in front of him as the situation developed.
04 Oct 2025 20:23:52
To top it all off. I now have to sit through Strictly.
Mind you. Watching that Katya Jones slinking about is not a bad thing.
04 Oct 2025 20:44:34
Ecogsi, something tells me it won’t be a complete ‘click’ that takes place, I think we will have games where we look good, games where we perform badly and win and games we lose playing badly. I think it’ll be a mixed bag, and nothing dominant or consistent like we had for the majority of last season. I can already see that type of dynamic developing and the players nor the coaching fill you with any optimism for it to change positively. We will fall into being a decent top4/ 5 team but not perennial challengers like we have been, that’s the way things are shaping up. I don’t think all the players we brought in will come good given some time, it’s looking quite obvious to me now, some of them aren’t going to be good enough, but its not for the want of trying, they will and have been getting chances, its just unfortunate it took buying them for large sums of money to find out its not the right fit. You don't win titles having to compensate for ‘top’ players and there’s way too much of that going on right now. It’s a mixture of new players not up to standard, players we relied on so heavily last season being completely off the boil and a system that clearly doesn’t suit us but is being persisted with. The 4-2-3-1 formation has never really worked for us, not under klopp nor Rodgers, we’ve always been a good 4-3-3 team. And now the in game management is questionable, which was one of the saving graces for slot. Our set pieces are atrocious, both defensively and offensively, I haven’t seen us this bad in years, to the point I don’t think we work on them.
I’m not trying to say it’s all over and we should throw the towel in and I know this sort of critique is looked down on, on the main site anyway, but you can’t go 3 away losses in a row and not one good performance this season and not be very concerned. If things looked like they could change if certain changes were made then I would be a lot more hopeful, but I can’t see how and where it changes, we need individual brilliance to get us through any games now and that isn’t a thing anymore.
04 Oct 2025 20:55:07
VVD should have split the difference, he didn't need to commit so much to the runner and therefore open the space for the shot. Some players seem to exempt from being in the wrong, Gomwz should have been on, and Frimpong if Bradley is taken off. Some of the refs decision s were terrible. Gakpo didn't contribute much, Salah is badly out of form, Isak still getting upto speed, Konate is terrible, Slot has to make some tough decisions.
04 Oct 2025 21:12:24
Robbos job is not to fall asleep isn't it?
04 Oct 2025 22:09:30
A centre half has to squeeze the ball from 20 yards. A left back has to beat his man to the back post ball. Get them right and we win having played awful.
04 Oct 2025 23:53:21
Another shocking performance and the blame is on slot Konate Salah Mac allister we’re truly shocking but slot plays them no matter what we are not going win anything this season and be lucky get top four the rot has set in now.