Pizy

Rosenior mostly gets a pass from me for this one. As a manager your job is to put your best attackers in positions to score or cause danger to defenders and that’s exactly what he did here. Palmer, Neto, and Pedro all had golden chances to put this game out of reach and fucked all of them. Numerous times standing in space inside the box and fucked it up every time. Manager can’t put the ball in the net. The chance creation was there, the midfield control was there, the limiting of the opponent to minimal chances was there. What wasn’t was our finishing when dominant which is a problem again and again.

Be a bit hard for them when we don’t have UCL next season. And we’ve already been struggling to find a permanent shirt sponsor so imagine how difficult is going to be to convince some company to fork over mega money on us once we aren’t in the elite competition. Yeah, unlike us I can actually picture Liverpool going on a long winning run to end the season if they get on a roll of 2-3 wins. We basically need to play completely out of our skin week after week against top sides WITH UCL and FA Cup sprinkled in. I just cannot see how we do it with this squad. The mentality and maturity simply isn’t there.

Liverpool have had multiple midseason “crisis runs” where their fanbase has been on fire and calling for the manager’s head and yet they’re still almost certainly going to leapfrog us and take that final UCL spot in the end. That is how costly these last 2 matches have been.

I really do think that in form Palmer from years past makes all the difference. It’s almost as simple as that for me. Other than Joao Pedro this season we don’t have a single other reliable source of goals. If Palmer was himself these dropped points from winning positions don’t happen. Because we would be scoring 3-4 goals in all these games against shit teams. Hell, even in poor form he should be scoring these 1 on 1 chances. His touch, his decision making, and his body language have been terrible for months now.

Yep. There dies our Champions League hopes in all likelihood. Dead at the hands of Leeds and Burnley at home when leading and dominating for large portions of each match. May sound harsh, but I’m putting a HUGE amount of blame on Cole Palmer today. The Palmer of the past couple of seasons has a hat trick today. His abysmal form in open play cost us that game. We should have been completely out of sight and had Burnley demoralized and out of the game.

This should seriously be 6-7 for us and now the entire match is in jeopardy. Fucking hell.

We would be 3 or 4-0 up on another day when we were sharper. All now setting up for a ridiculous Ward Prowse free kick worldie out of nothing to cost us 3 points.

It feels like we’ve been completely caught by surpsie by Burnley’s approach today. We thought they’d let us play our free flowing, quick passing stuff and they’d not even try to come out of their half. Instead, they’re super compact at the back which has shut us down after the goal and they’re also pressing aggressively which we clearly haven’t expected. I don’t think I’ve seen a team have the mentality issue we do right now where we consistently let our levels drop AFTER we go ahead. Time and again.

We’ve actually allowed Burnley to get BETTER after WE went 1-0 up. wtf are we doing?

Feels like Estevão just mysteriously vanishes from match day squads again and again without us ever hearing about injuries ahead of time.

You can cross any player of Dembele’s profile off the list before even letting yourself dream. He’s probably already on some crazy salary at PSG that we wouldn’t go near.

In the clips I’m seeing on Twitter he looks really good like he always does when he’s fit. Sadly, that won’t last long.

That is a HIDEOUS shirt sponsor and it’s also once again just another short term bandaid deal. Of course it had to be some random AI slop company. For the life of me, of all the strange and questionable things that have happened under BlueCo, them apparently being complete.y unable to secure us a long term, super high profile/prestigious shirt sponsor is the weirdest and most puzzling thing. These guys are supposed to be business and finance geniuses and we’ve scrounged around for FOUR YEARS looking for a sponsor only to end up here?

Not exactly encouraging that both of the young and exciting prospects we pre-signed for the summer currently have major injuries before even joining. 😑

I think he’d definitely come here, yes. But would we spend the monster amount that Forest will ask for is the question. With UCL money, perhaps. Probably also depends on how good Sarr looks the rest of this season.

Tbh, even speculating about potential targets right now is pointless. We’ll surely have a list of players we can target if we achieve UCL football and another fallback list of ones we can go for if we don’t. For instance, I highly doubt we’ll be going for any of the mega expensive midfielders if we don’t get that extra money. Instead of Anderson/Wharton/Tonali we’d probably just bring Barco over from Strasbourg. Which to me I’d actually prefer. And as for CB it’s probably a case of get UCL football - buy super expensive and ready made CB, don’t get UCL football - probably just recall Anselmino and have Colwill, Fofana, Sarr, Trev, and Anselmino as our options at the back.

Doubt we’ll ever hear his name mentioned with us again. Was probably in the “break glass in case of emergency” bucket with Douglas Luiz specifically in the January window if we needed an extra body.

Was only a matter of time until one of our big players this season got a significant injury and I’ve always been concerned that it would be either Caicedo or Cucu considering how many minutes they play. He will apparently be out a month but with hamstring injuries you have to be so careful. Thankfully I think Hato is starting to get more and more comfortable in the team since Rosenior came in and will only get better with more reps. We’re definitely going to lose quite a bit defensively with Cucu out but this is why we spent so much on such a young and super promising talent like Hato. He’s got to step up.

Massive indictment on his time here that he just didn’t seem to fancy Santos at all for some reason. It makes no sense. The level of calm, the positional sense, the intelligence out of possession. He would’ve helped us so much earlier in the season if he was playing. Maresca may still be the manager right now.

That’s the exact move that Delap should be doing week in and week out. That’s his game at his best. Stop trying to do too much.

That’s almost as comical as the second we conceded against Leeds.

They really are both brutal to watch. Delap at least has the excuse of still being inexperienced and new to playing at a huge club. Garnacho has been playing for a huge club for years and hasn’t progressed at all. He’s the same brainless pace merchant everyone said he was before we stupidly bought him. Literally the ONLY situation I feel we can trust Garnacho in is if we play balls over the top and he’s either using his pace to beat the last defender or clear on goal. Can’t beat defenders from the wing to save his life and his decision making is some of the worst ever.

I actually kind of like Neto centrally like this in the #10 area when he’s badly out of form out wide. He’s more likely to cause danger here than slapping in a hundred aimless crosses when he’s out wide.

When we’ve played it quickly they haven’t been able to deal with us but it looks like we’re in full on walking pace/energy conservation mode. Delap is also killing us time and again.

Tbf, who are we playing in his place with Lavia and Essugo out? Gusto I guess?