by Kenny Kan » Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:46 am
Horrible defending again, and we all knew one 75 million pound signing was never going to prevent our defensive shortcomings.
Drafting Moreno and TAA back into the side destabilised us, I like the latter and he should be given a run out from time to time but he has his pitfalls defensively.
As for more Moreno, when he plays left back it just looks too chaotic and Robertson has got to be given the lion's share of starts for the rest of the season ahead, as he has already proven to be a much better defender than the Spaniard.
That wasn't our only defensive issue, another meek performance from Matip who could have done more than try and flick a goal bound cross/shot off his own goal line.
The midfield three of Gini, Ox (who I think is in a team above his station), and Can, offered absolutely zero defensive cover for our defence. The way WBA just ghosted past our midfield and over loaded our defence with runners shows that a defensive woes are just as much systemic as they are individual. It was too easy for a team like WBA to attack us with numbers, when our midfield were at 6's and 7's chasing shadows. Only Can has an incl-in of defensive awareness and he struggled alongside two pretenders.
Firmino should have scored the penalty. He's got to come off that duty now - he's missed some crucial ones (twice IIRC), that has changed the game for the worst for us. Sevilla at home was the other. He's no Milner. And if he's taking them to up his score count then it isn't justifiable when he is ordinary at taking them.
Another defeat, and probably another year trophy less.
One last point: We have two keepers at this club who play regularly. We may as well not play with any keeper and string a pair of braces to the crossbar, both are fu.cking sh.it and both should be dumped in a purple fu.cking bin.
Champions of England 2020.
YNWA