DANILA

Probably 0-0 lol

Just an example off the top of my head - watch highlights of Lazio vs Zenit in their most recent match. We are nowhere close to that, and before you say "Zenit is not a strong team.." we couldn't do anything against the likes of Rennes.

One-two, quick passes rather than the slow, predictable build up we have. Look at Spanish/German/Italian teams in UCL and EL. We have great talent - we shouldn't be resorting to crossing 90/100 times to score

Best ball mover on our team, by a long shot

Ive been calling out FL and somewhat the team for a majority of this season even while winning because I could see through it and realize how poor we are in attack - this game really showed it. The only games against decent clubs we've got four 0-0 results with very few chances. Seems like FL only attacking play is crossing and was absolutely ridiculous to see how many we attempted this game (also, if all we do is cross then why not start Giroud?). Do we not practice attacking through the middle at all? Can't even make a single unpredictable pass... embarressing

Same shit all season, only attack is crossing. At 42', WHY THE HELL ARE WE STILL CROSSING ON A 4 on 3??!?!

pretty bad performance tbh lol.. didn't have a single chance from 30' - 87'. I'll leave it given our players are tired. Even when we had a good chance from open play / good passing, CHO literally stopped the ball and passed backwards for a cross - can't make this stuff up

Like: CHO starting, James rest, Kovacic playing Dislike: Giroud not starting, Havertz not starting, Werner starting, Silva starting, Mount starting, Chillwell starting

Can't confirm or deny unless I go back and watch the highlights of the games, but James crosses, or crosses in general, have driven 90% of our threats stays true. Most open play goals have had lucky bounces / touches here and there as well. All of this is to say I really expect more from the talent we have on our team and think we'll get exposed against a run of good teams. Lampard has done well to fix up our defense (also really a function of just signing 3 good players at the back) but really hopes he adds some flair into our attack

Mendy James zouma christensen chilwell kova kante mount Ziyech Werner CHO

90% of our threats come from a James cross whether we score or not; more recently though it has been Ziyech cross leading to actual goals

That aspect has improved, but I can't see us being successful long term with crossball as our main attack; it's also a massive waste of talent we have. What happens if/when James can't play? We have no plan B as attack through the middle is non-existent

We haven't played any strong teams other than Liverpool (guess put in Sevilla as well although they're doing terrible in la liga) yet - unless we continue to improve our attack we'll be found out soon enough against better sides

Our whole attack is extremely predictable which doesn't help him (couple of passes then pass to James who crosses it in)

I think Abraham should be sent on loan / sold and Giroud stay remainder of the year. Don't see the hype around Abraham at all

In one of the recent games (think it was burnley but feels like a while ago), he missed a chance and started wailing his arms and stopped moving. If he had not done that he would have scored on the follow up opportunity

I want Giroud to start, has had a great intl break with France. He is better than Abraham IMO who has a dreadful attitude

don't need our best squad to beat NC comfortably. Assuming Pulisic will be out for a while again?

Would really like to see some proper attacks from open play rather than the crossball we have been using all season - this is a good game for that against a weak team. Want to start seeing some progress on the attacking tactical front and don't want to be dominated by Sheffield for 15 minutes at a time after scoring.

I saw through the Krasnodar result and people were roasting me. We can't attack AT ALL - all we try to do is cross it in, we never make any plays through the middle. Again our defense and attack is not connected at all. Terrible performance so far again

Think it's just the camera angle - Werner is listed as having 8cm on Pulisic.

Unless I'm mistaken I'm pretty sure it was Kova - he also gave a lot of attitude to Azpi for not passing and Werner doesn't do that as he's new... I think it was either near the end of the first half or near the beginning of second.

He was begging for a pass from Azpi when he was open in the middle right at the edge of box, and Azpi passed it to their keeper per the usual. Probably could have scored from there

Krasnodar outplayed us in attack today, we were lucky. This result masks another dreadful performance

VERY worrying