Pizy

We can’t keep the ball to save our lives with all this great talent on the pitch.

They’re completely dominating us like we did to them most of the game. What’s going on?! We’ve just literally stopped playing football.

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 We’re fucking desperate to concede here!

We haven’t had a sniff of the ball since scoring it feels like. Need to sharpen up asap.

Panic stations in our half time and time and time again.

Sub Noni off!!!

Sancho for Madueke please and Neto on the right.

Swear he’s kicked the ball straight out of play 10 times today so far.

Whilst I like the Caicedo & Lavia pairing, they’re tactically not deployed well so far today. There is WAY too much space between them and it looked as if they were playing on opposite sides of the field rather than close together. Allowed Newcastle to walk through that space far too easily.

It’s just pure panic at the back all the time. So fucking annoying. It’s the only thing making this a match. We kill ourselves.

Newcastles tactic of not allowing us to play out from the keeper is smart and is working when the ball is back there. When we have it in their half we look excellent. But with the ball in our half we’re a disaster waiting to happen.

You can’t have an unsteady defense AND a poor keeper. We have both. We MUST replace him at the first opportunity this January if Jorgensen isn’t the guy.

Sanchez kicks the ball out AGAIN, Newcastle immedietly work it forward and score. For fucks sake. They still walked straight through our midfield, though. Inexcusable.

Sanches is almost single-handedly keeping Newcastle in this match. Just make the simple pass, man!!!

Awww, close! If that Reece there instead of Gusto it’s a goal.

WHAT A GOAL

This Sanchez distribution….my god he’s shit.

Fofana does his knee again after a completely unnecessary challenge. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

So fucking close. Nico Jackson is absolutely ON IT so far though.

I truly did expect KDH to be one of Maresca’s most used players this season and therefor thought he was a very good signing. Still think he will be used plenty throughout the season. But in order to break into this team there are so many quality options now that we’re probably unexpected at the time we signed him.

Oh nice, didn’t realize Anthony Gordon was injured and out for this. That’s a huge bonus. Almiron and Harvey Barnes can definitely still cause problems with their pace but they’re much less scary than Gordon is when in form.

I think it’s for the best right now for Enzo to play against weaker teams for a nice long run where he can build back up to his best. Can help get the supporters who are down on him back on his side too if he progresses nicely.

Happy with everything other than Gusto at LB instead of Cucu. For me this is the kind of important game you want the combativeness and fire of Cucu in the team. I love Malo but he feels kinda shoehorned in there because Maresca would feel bad dropping him after he’s been so great over the last year. Anyways, HAVE to win this at home if we’re serious about pushing on. Got to build up that winning, machine like mentality now.

Madrid’s defending reminds me of ours in recent times. All over the shop and embarrassing.

Have to assume that both Reece & Lavia looked excellent in training over the break in order for Maresca to throw them in for such a massive game. Still a HUGE risk with Reece. This could either go spectacularly well or be a disaster, lol. Tbh, I haven’t watched much of Liverpool this season so I’m not sure how good Gakpo and Jota have been, but I’m not really as worried about them as I am of Luis Diaz. So I’m kinda glad he’s not starting. Of course, now Gakpo will score since I mentioned it. 😑