Pizy

Yes, but who? The market is fucking dreadful for these sorts of players right now. There are loads of creative #10 types out there that we could easily get if we really tried (Cherki, Wirtz, Kudus, Etc) but attackers that are basically guaranteed goals are just absent. We may have to get SUPER creative and take a punt on someone completely unexpected or out of nowhere like we did with Jackson. But then we risk yet another bust.

I was under the impression that he was an out and out #9. You could be right. But even so I wouldn’t go for him. We need our stats and data driven scouting nerds at the club to find us wide attackers around Europe who are prolific and would suit the PL.

Think I remember seeing £40m earlier in the window. He doesn’t really strike me as a player who would instantly hit the ground running, though. And he isn’t someone who plays with Jackson but instead of him.

Struggling to think of an attacker who is basically a guaranteed of goals who we can get at this point. Plus, it’s another even like Jackson has played badly. It’s the opposite, in fact. So it’s not like we need to bring in a striker to replace him. And Sterling has been ultra-dangerous in large parts of both matches so far. So assuming we go 4-3-3 from here on out (for the love of god, please no more 3 atb) that means we need a WIDE attacker who is lethal in front of goal.

I’m not going to panic yet. We’ve shown long spells of fantastic football in both matches so far as I’m seeing David Moyes say in quotes after this match. This isn’t last season’s team. We ARE capable of playing very well. We need Poch to slaughter the lads in training all week and whip their asses into shape even more. These silly, schoolboy errors are the undoing of us time and again. We need to beat Luton next weekend and we need to do so convincingly. Get that first W on the board and build confidence.

Really don’t understand it. He looked like an incredibly composed, monster of a technician before we bought him. A wonderful footballer. Taking the ball under pressure, dribbling through entire teams, putting in amazing crosses, scoring great goals. And it wasn’t just in the Ukrainian league, he did it in the UCL too. Now he looks like a terrified child thrown in the deep end. Can’t even do the basics right.

Caicedo looking super rusty having played 1 preseason match and joining a new team I can understand. So discounting him I think the only player who looked seriously poor was Mudryk (again). Most everyone else looked good for much of the match. Sterling, Jackson, Enzo, Carney, Colwill, etc. all comfortable for the majority of the match. A couple of mental lapses from Disasi and Gallagher apart WH did fuck all. But we CANNOT SCORE. Still! We played outstanding football after their goal and the missed pen KILLS us. Score that and it’s a comfortable cruise.

Now we’re the laughingstock of the world for the next week. Not like WH even played well and stunned us with moments of extreme quality. It was total self inflicted chaos. We could’ve and should’ve score so many goals. But there’s zero composure. Enzo scores the pen and I think we go on to dominate them 3 or 4-1.

The only way WH were going to score in general play today was Ward-Prowse set pieces or Antonio throwing himself about like a manic. And of course that’s exactly what happened. But we still dominated and should’ve been out of sight in that first half. Then we took our foot totally off the gas second half. We get lucky to play against 10 men for 30 minutes and then somehow looked WORSE.

Nightmare of all nightmare debuts for Caicedo. How do we go from that first half to this second half? Literally HOW!?

Hope the whole side is embarrassed by this.

It’ll be 30 minutes against 10 men and we look completely out of ideas.

There’s just ZERO urgency when we’ve got this advantage.

Against 10 men we play at walking pace and allow them to park the double decker rather than pop it around quickly like we did all 1st half. Fucking hell…

We are more prone to panicky errors than any big team in Europe. It happens so often it’s a joke. In complete control, terrible side gets a single chance, and they score. Over and over again.

Absolutely dominant and their striker gets 1 single chance and scores. WTF was that defending?! Embarrassing AGAIN.

As frustrating as the finishing has been, this is now 2 straight halves where the football we’ve played is night and day compared to last season. We looks like a properly coached attacking unit. And this is just the start under Poch. If we sharpen up in the box and cut out the silly defensive errors on set pieces we’ll be a serious team.

Yep, Nkunku would feast in a chaotic, fast paced match like this where the passes are zipping around. Absolutely horrendous luck we’ve had.

Jackson has done EVERYTHING well except finish. Just like Sterling. Two players that are dominating their individual battles but neither can finish so far.

Another ACL or MCL? 😔😔😔

We CANNOT let this game swing. We’ve been totally dominant and are carving through them repeatedly.

Another bad looking knee injury. Couldn’t even put weight on it.

Sterling looks like fucking Vini Jr today and nobody can finish!

MY GOODNESS! We should have 5 goals by now!!!

Have to have your striker taking pens. Let him see the ball go in.