Yes, but you are proving the point. Despite being told more than once the meaning, people are continuing to contribute to the thread, making them either slow or stupid...ergo dullards!
In 9 games so far we've played teams who are 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th and still picked up 16 points! We've now got a run of four PL games (with Europa interspersed) where we play the 13th, 16th, 20th and 15th.
If we only got 4 points from those games, after 13 games (a third of the...
Personally I think our current defensive issues stem from not having 3 in midfield.
Last season we had Mac, Moises and Gross playing in the middle (even when Gross nominally played full back, he usually ended up in the middle). This is where we had our best success, with Solly and Mitoma wide...
In possession, Stones often pushed up into the middle, and Alvarez often dropped deep, sucking our players in, then the quick switch leaving Milner exposed one on one with Doku.
I think Pepe had worked out his strategy.
Yes, Adringa had a poor first half and didn't help Milner one bit. He was better second half.
In hindsight it might have been better to have had Solly there as he is much better defensively and Igor at left back.
No only 2 in CM with Pedro/Welbeck ( and then Fergie) taking turns to drop deep and have the ball bounce off them to a City player because the passes were telegraphed.
Interestingly, in the second half the top two stayed up more and several times the ball was just played into the middle of the...
Mainly, Baleba was holding and Gross was pushing into CAM. But at times they were too far apart, meaning Rodri and Bernardo could play through too easily. When Baleba came off Billy and Gross became much more fluid and we seemed a lot tighter in my opinion.
It's very odd but watching the game, the difference in the sharpness of passing and movement in the second half compared to the first was staggering.
A few observations, Gross dropped deep second half when Gilmour came on, and therefore became the conductor.
Mitoma made movement inside to...
It looked really bad as soon as he made the tackle. What was obvious was that the players were calling for the stretcher immediately. They knew it was bad.