Rookie or not - playing the Winks / Sissoko tandem of doom is no excuse
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Season ticket holder at Chelsea with his dad ,apparently.I always thought he was Spurs,but got told the weekend about his Cheslea past.His Dad still has a ST over there.
I don’t agree with his subs. Should have brought in Ndombele for Lo Celso imo. Winks was ok.
Winks was not ok - in fact no one was - we had no plan and were playing for pens like cowards
Yeah guess you wanted to go toe to toe with Man City, concede 5 then cry on the forum how Mason is such a pathetic loser for setting us up like that.
Wrong
Was more than happy to lose 4:1 playing like a decent team with a plan who had a go at them
Yeah I’m sure you would.
No - you're right - the shit-show served yesterday was way betterYeah I’m sure you would.
:mourfacepalm:
It is a way to counter Man City... Another way is to go Klopp’s high pressing but I doubt Mason has had the time or the knowledge to implement those complex patterns.
If you think you can just go and play against City like they’re a regular team you’re deluded as fuck. They’re miles ahead of us in every department, except for the striker. There’s a reason most teams in this league choose or are forced to play the way we played yesterday.
Yeah - leaving our best players on the bench was surely the way to go. Have a day off there
Yesyes, against one of the best managers in the world... of course it was hard. And I personally (and not many others here) are saying that losing as objective fact was the biggest issue. Issue is - we started the game with 10 men. Winks in this game was definition of useless. Not having experiences is not an excuse for not knowing something 99% of people in this forum would have known.
That starting Winks ahead of Ndmobele is blatantly stupid. Period. No excuses.
Swiching Lo Celso for Sissoko - again blatantly stupid and driven by favourism.
You make it sound like we would be blaming a kid who has cancer for having a cancer. Which is just not true. We are accusing adult person for playing awful footballers in a game that decided a cup winner.
Ndombele and Bale should have both started. Sissoko coming on, etc
Did you even watch?
Not sure we agree on many things , but I a with this wholeheartedly. Not really Ryan’s fault we are poor, however he had a free pass to go down swinging and get spanked. The vast majority would have understood, the way we were so gutless the vast majority clearly don’t understand
Lucas was better than Bale...
As for Ndombele I already said he should have replaced Lo Celso at least, if not started the game.
Yes you utter mug, he was.
Or DiD yOu EvEn WaTcH?
Bale should have started as has been one of our best players last 2 months - not to mention he's the only winners in this team of bottlers
Deary me...
Had no issue with the starting players or tactics. They are better than us and it was to keep in the game which worked.
Issue is from 60-70 mins we should have unleashed Bale for Son and Ndombele for Winks as the City press was tiring compared to their first half. Instead we get Sissoko and Dele and you just knew that was it no chance. Horrible to say but it almost felt like Mason was playing his mates at that point.
Issue is from 60-70 mins we should have unleashed Bale for Son and Ndombele for Winks as the City press was tiring compared to their first half. Instead we get Sissoko and Dele and you just knew that was it no chance. Horrible to say but it almost felt like Mason was playing his mates at that point.