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Match Fulham (H) - 29/11 - 8pm

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Look, I get the goals were weird, but things happen for a reason.
I don't think all of our players are shit. I don't even think any of our players are shit.
Yep, none of 'em!
It is the manager's job to create a team out of very talented players and give them a coherent system of how to play.
Currently, that ain't happening.
We don’t have a system regardless of what Frank was saying earlier in the season after some easy fixtures. Everyone going over the top about how much more organised we looked and solid. Well that is blown out of the water. Hdf can he work on attacking phases when we look terrible in defence and midfield.
 
See my post above. Our subs did have an affect. I’m not a fan of Frank either, and I think he should have started with shape/personnel more like we finished, because it would’ve been harder for Fulham to counter that or react from the get go.

But they did help us temporarily.
I think again every e got carried away with psv performance. Remember the pressing and running is more for teams who keep the ball like PSG do. Today we had more of the ball so it’s not so easy to press and show intent. We have to instill some pace and aggression in our play when WE have the ball.
 
in the 2nd half.

If you want to put your energy into negativity, go for it. People asked for a positive view

There is none. It’s Fulham at home. They’re a not very good team and we managed to be 2-0 down inside 10.

From there you’d expect periods of dominance. They’re a low block side who are two goals to the good!

I’m sure if we did equalise they’d have fucking ended up coming back and scoring anyway.

Utter shit
 
Is it just me or does Richarlison make header like motions towards balls that are too far away to reach?

He's either trying to say in his body language I'd have scored if that was a better cross, or he's lacking spatial awareness.
 
Yeah... I was surprised he went with the 2 up top system again right off the bat. Home against a team like Fulham I'm not sure you want to create chaos.

Thought he should've gone with the 4-2-3-1 with Muani up top then reverted to the chaos-ball if we went behind, rather than the opposite. We should be able to beat a team like Fulham by playing football, rather than the pure pressing and energy we displayed against PSG.
As I said you cannot do what we did v psg to Fulham at home where we have the ball.
PS what is this stupid KO routine now a days passing ball back to Vic. Who can’t kick and immediately puts us in back foot. As he kicks it and it invariably goes to oppo.
 
Dyche has quickly cleaned up the mess Ange couldn’t at forest
Yes mid season , no pre season and his made thrm
More solid already and tough. Frank had full pre season, £200M on new players and yet we look a disorganised shambles. Made us better organised and stopped giving up chances my arse. This has been like this all season going back to Bmouth game where they should have put 5 past us. So many games we should have been thrashed but bcos oppo missed sitters and hit some goals from corners everyone over looked it. I have says all season we cough up chances worse than any top club. Same as under Ange we are no better. I recall saying if ditch snge which I wanted then next manager has to be a SIGNIFICENT upgrade. I don’t think Frank is or ever will be but hoping he can sort it out. Who knows?
 
The more i think about it, the worse the performance yesterday gets on reflection.

To start yet another home game in that manner and perform like that for the first half especially was a disgrace.

A very mediocre Fulham side who had 1 away point and zero wins rocked up and should have been 4-0 up by HT. Aside from the two goals, they hit the post and were it not for a sensational tackle from VDV would have scored again.

It's beyond concerning at this point. We're almost into December and the team has no identity and Frank keeps chopping and changing players, tactics and formations every game.

The whole club is rotten from top to bottom and the manager (or any manager here) is on a hiding to nothing.
The transfer window was another completely negligent attempt at squad building that left a champions league team without cover at LB and no replacement LW for Son. Not too mention loads of other issues with sub par players in other positions.

We ended up with a 4th choice CAM who has done nothing so far. RKM has zero league goals after 4 months here. Palinha good at what he does but very limited. Kudus the only one that's shown anything.

A complete mess of a football club.
 
He took off three players that had done nothing all match.
He said in the press conference that the plan was to overload on the right, then get crosses in from Kudus and Porro for Muani and Richarlison.
That made it a weird choice to pick Udogie in the first place. To play to his strengths he has to get the ball with space to run into, if the idea was to be more defensive on the left then pick Spence or Ben Davies.
 
One thing I couldn't believe yesterday was that the on-pitch announcer in his hype speech before the kickoff literally said "we haven't lost at home to Fulham in 13 games". He cursed us by saying that, everyone around me in the stadium commented on it.
 
Did you see vicario berate his outfielders after he fucked us by not kicking the ball into the high street after he charged out like Pele to play the ball?
That is not a team pulling together. Maybe he was looking for grey and bergvall to pick on again.
I think he's right, the two central defenders should have been standing on the goal line. ;)
 
I never thought I would say this but I’m embarrassed by our ‘support’. Surely we all want the same thing to see Spurs winning and playing well but the booing is just making things worse. I really hope to see a positive reaction at the next home game, make some noise and support the team regardless. You never know it might bring an improved performance from the team.
 
We are 100% fiddling the books now.

It was so empty in the South we simply moved from our ST places in Row 73 and joined so guests in Ro4 behind the goal. No problems whatsoever.
I doubt it's fiddling, just stating sold tickets rather than physical attendance. I will admit before kickoff it looked more sparse than usual but the attendance did end up looking better than I expected
 
One thing I couldn't believe yesterday was that the on-pitch announcer in his hype speech before the kickoff literally said "we haven't lost at home to Fulham in 13 games". He cursed us by saying that, everyone around me in the stadium commented on it.
Not only is it a curse it's also stupid. Some of our stadium decisions are negligent. Not that the crowd needs an excuse, but if you're reminded of that beforehand and then go 2 goals behind after 6 minutes, will that make the booing more or less likely? Stupid
 
We did better than I thought . I thought Fulham would win 0-2, so I underestimated us.

We are shit. Our players are shit . A big pile of sheep shit.
 
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