Pizy

We once again look fine going forward but some shocking defending costed us just like the last 3 games.

That’s given as a pen 10 times out of 10 if it’s a Chelsea player doing it.

Gave the ball away THREE TIMES in the lead; to that. We deserve to be done.

When Sanchez is good at least he’s a top shot stopper. Jorgensen hasn’t really shown anything since being here. Like you say though, both are poor so it probably doesn’t matter.

Sanchez was woeful against Arse but throwing Jorgensen in for such a huge match away from home in a hostile atmosphere when he himself has looked poor a lot of the time is madness to me. What a huge call from Rosenior. Also, still no Estevão. And we still don’t even know what’s wrong with him… 😑

Said it for months now but they are so fortunate and benefiting massively from crashing out of every comp and having only the PL to focus on. Amorim’s total incompetence whilst there literally set them up perfectly for the rest of the season. All their players fresh each match, little rotation needed, one single goal to concentrate on for basically half their season. Meanwhile, every team around them gunning for the UCL spots is doing the balancing act chopping and changing match to match trying to juggle all these competitions. It’s why I think United is a lock for one of these places. Probably 3rd in the end.

Liverpool’s choke job last night has given us a lifeline that was totally unexpected. More or less turns this into a UCL Final level pressure match for us. Legitimately a win or our PL season is over game. Both Villa and United will be completely beyond catching if they win tonight. Liverpool are as inconsistent as we are but at least they have easier fixtures than us. Let’s see what these players are made of when we desperately need a win. All 3 points for us could cause another monster late season collapse for Villa.

What’s especially scary is that we can’t take the ruthless route that Roman would’ve taken if this was 10 years ago and spend a fuck ton of money on world class, highly experienced players to get us out of this hole. We will be extremely strained to do any serious transfer business. No UCL football, no permanent shirt sponsor, already under UEFA sanction and probably in danger of the 3 year PSR rules, tiny stadium revenue compared to every one of our rivals. Add on top of that the fact that we start on a serious back foot attracting any top players because of our wage cap. We will also struggle mightily to get anyone to take some of the shit we’ve filled our squad with like Gittens, Delap, or Garnacho. So what does this all mean? That we’re basically boxed in to the very same approach that has got us where we are now. More gambles on young players and more sell to buy. All business which will be done by the same jokers who have fucked us for 4 straight years.

Has Sanchez had a very good season overall? Yes. Would I still replace him this summer? Absolutely 100%. We have his ready made replacement at Strasbourg who has worked with our manager before. Do I think we will move on from him? As I said in the Board thread the other day, I bet my house that the club won’t do this and will stick with Sanchez.

I have seriously completely run out of things to look at that make me optimistic for the future. We think things are bleak now, think about what they’re going to be like going forward with no UCL and more idiotic recruitment.

Season over.

Un fucking real. Simply cannot defend set pieces. What do we do all week in training?

Arse leaving LOADS of little pockets in between their midfield and defense that we’re exploiting. Do we have the quality in attack to make them pay, though…

Neto may not have done anything to cause danger in front of goal but he at least stretched their left side and made them respect his pace and ability to burst past. On the other side the lack of any natural winger who could create was glaring. Neither Hato nor current form Palmer is going to get the ball out there and beat defenders dribbling. Sadly, the options there are shite. Garnacho ain’t gonna do it either.

Few solid individual defensive performances I thought. Caicedo, Hato, and Trev were all good in 1v1 duels.

João Pedro as the lone striker up against THIS CB pairing was always a dumb idea. He can’t handle them.

It’s not just that Arse are stronger physically than us. They can also pass rings around us too. If it were one or the other we’d have some hope.

We seriously look terrified. This team is a joke.

Arse have completely flipped the roles of these two clubs from previous eras. They are now the men and we’re the boys. They just straight up don’t respect us at all and know we can’t do anything to them. Like a big brother toying with the little brother. Embarrassing how we’ve allowed this to happen.

Our PL season is more or less over unless we win today in my mind with results elsewhere.

Really have no clue what to expect here. Just going to assume it’ll be much like the last match where we can’t break them down and they win it 1-0 from a corner or something.

We will almost 100% not be getting a new GK so we can put that to bed. I’d be stunned if we get another CF either with Emegha and maybe even Jackson returning. I maintain that we don’t need much. Or perhaps to better put it, we don’t have THAT many glaring holes in the squad. It’s just that the few we do have are costing us big time. For me we badly need a dominant CB, a top class LW, and another high quality body in CM if Lavia gets injured once again. We don’t need a total rebuild or major surgery like we did a couple of years ago.

True. Personnel wise we won’t need too much in the summer, we just need to be smart and not blow huge money on super risky signings like fucking Gittens. Like United, we should actually consider targeting some of the best players within the PL who don’t play for the top teams like they did with Mbuemo and Cunha. Players who wouldn’t care about UCL football and would jump at the shlt to step up to a huge club.

People need to get used to the idea that this summer is going to be brutal in terms of transfers. We already weren’t shopping in the top bracket of players under this ownership but it’ll be even more so now. We will probably have to be purely sell to buy for the foreseeable future and also will be forced to sell some key players we will probably be very angry about.

The players partying and relaxing for a few days shouldn’t fucking matter against Burnley at home. We created a dozen chances good enough to win that game and they choked or scuffed their lines. If we had sleepwalked through that with zombieball and our players still looked hung over that’s one thing. Then you could say the mini holiday was a factor. That’s not the case over the 90 minutes where we should’ve scored a bunch on guilt edged chances. The Palmer we saw at his best would be having a 20 PL goal season from open play in this current team. The fact that he is still miles off that level is killing us. Likewise Estevão being constantly in and out of the squad with injuries or personal matters. Feels like we haven’t seen a run of games with him, João Pedro and Palmer together more than like a couple of times.