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But even Pulisic said he should have done better with his chances today... Not comparing the volume of misses (yes, Werner is worse than the others in this regard) but more judging each chance/miss as it comes. Would we have been so forgiving had Pulisic's misses cost us the game today? Maybe not.

Mendy not going for international duty because he needs an operation...on his tooth!

Even Pulisic said he should have done better with the chances he got today. 🤷‍♂️

I don't turn a blind eye to that. What else do you want me to say that's already been said? How do you expect me to defend his misses? 🤣 But my point is, a miss is a miss regardless of how many games one has played over the other and as I said before, it's not as if Pulisic just came back from injury and he's lacking sharpness etc either. I remember people were already jumping on Werner when he started missing chances at Newcastle last November.

We would be very good if our players can start putting chances away consistently!

The second chance? He dribbled past 2-3 players and somehow just shot straight at the keeper.

The point here isn't how many chances has Werner missed. The point is Pulisic had two good chances to score, of which he should have scored the second one at the very least. We saw him bury chances like those last season.

My point is, if you're gonna criticize someone for missing a chance, then you should do it for all. A bad miss is a bad miss and all that. I don't see why the lack of playing time is a factor here. It's not as if Pulisic just played his first game in months. Pulisic should have scored his second chance today at the very least.

Am sure Werner did a similar thing against Everton recently and got pummeled for those 2 misses...

2-0 now FFS!!!

Meanwhile, West Ham have gone 1-0 up against Arsenal. Level on points with us in the league if they win.

Not hard to choose when you see what the others have done, is it? But he also spurned two chances!

We're really struggling against the Premier League bottom side, the same lot that conceded 5 at Leicester just last weekend.

But it's not every game you see someone score a goal out of nothing, is it? Werner also created something out of nothing for our first goal against Southampton earlier this season for example. Vardy is something of a late bloomer and Kane also did not become the striker that he is today immediately. The difference or problem with Werner at Leipzig and Werner at Chelsea is that Leipzig tend to create a lot of chances while we don't - we can talk about the nature of the leagues and all that but that's another debate. Werner did miss a lot of chances in the Bundesliga, TBF, but Leipzig also created more than enough chances for him to make up the numbers. It's the same case with Lewandowski, Haaland etc. We don't create a lot of chances. So unless Werner puts away some of the clear chances he gets, every miss is gonna get magnified. I guess long story short, he is/was a volume shooter (I believe that's the right term lol). We can obviously get better at creating chances, creating more chances but it's unlikely that we'll ever create the same number of opportunities for him because it's the Premier League etc. So he needs to be more clinical with the chances, which one would hope it would come with more experience, composure going forward.

What's the point of playing neat and tidy football if we don't turn it into chances and goals though? The finishing has been a problem but let's not pretend like we consistently create chances either. We had no real chance to score against the Premier League bottom side in that first half but apart from that Pulisic chance, which came from a turnover.

Our first shot of the game...in the 42nd minute...this against the side bottom of the Premier League.

But Pulisic on the left though... 👀

Did Pulisic like lose weight? Looks even skinnier than his usual skinny self.

Yet to have a single shot...

I know we usually make changes for these games but what's up with the sluggish starts in the FA Cup games this season???

BLAME THE CLUB ADMIN! 🤣

They do have financial problems. https://www.football-espana.net/2021/01/27/real-madrid-accounts-reveal-club-in-concerning-e901m-debt

Yes.

Someone is feeling drunk this morning...