Likely to be an unpopular opinion, but I couldn't help but wonder throughout the entire match... It almost felt as if Eriksen & Son had it planned to lose the match to screw over Poch... they (and everyone else) knew the past month's lineup without K and the formation with Son/FL up top was WORKING!! it was WINNING GAMES!! and instead of rewarding E, S, and FL for their contributions, as soon as Kane wanted back in, it seemed poch almost relegated the others back into supporting roles as an afterthought with the message that now that K's back, go back to helping him raise his goal count... So E&S became anonymous to show K alone can't win games... so stop treating him like the be all/end all...
Obviously the Burnley formation was sh*t and Poch really shouldn't do that to players who were winning games "collectively" as he admits during the press conference...
And it's obvious the decision was P's and his alone... K was available to be back in the Dortmund match, but Poch made him wait to Burnley... but if as Poch says, this was such an important match to win, why change what was clearly working in the team's favor?? it all seems so contradictory...
If Poch, really did in fact, feel K was ready - shouldn't K have played in the very important UCL v. Dortmund? Or was K not confident enough he could help the team and didn't want the responsibility of losing the match, so the decision was like "ok, let's have K return in match w/ Burnely which would be an easy win anyway?"... so was the issue underestimating Burnley (contrary to what they said publicly) just so K could get a hero's welcome after getting 3 points?
clearly, whatever plan they had and thought would work went to sh&t and cost us a must have 3 points... players work their asses off to win against tough teams like dortmund, chelsea, liverpool, etc (which they do!!!) so the fact that they lose against pub teams like Burnley that's supposed to have been a gimme just boggles my mind...
You know, the more I think about this game, the more I think cheeky Nando should have started. Poch literally couldn't go wrong utilising Son as the main man, rewarding a buzzing team after Dortmund, and having Kane on the bench.
Even if we are losing 1-0 with 30 minutes to go it is not a bad situation. And, then he has the excuse to start Kane in the next game and switch all of their positions to support him.