Lucky not to get all three, Watford missed a golden chance in last minute. That shows how bad we are, correction how bad Bielsa is.
Bielsa says the players are not giving what they used to give and we are struggling to make the high press work. I agree. We are too easy to play through.
To be honest Everton gets a point they climb up to 15th. Citeh are in a decent place to lose the fame and still keep top.
I think they'll pay him enough respect and tell him walk away of his own accord. It wouldn't surprise me if that conversation was happening right now. I'm really sad as I believe he has to go but I genuinely love the guy to pieces. It's been a roller coaster and we've loved it but the maintenance hasn't been kept up and the wheels have come off. I say it with a heavy heart but Bielsa needs to go home and spend his time and his money with his family.
Afternoon all, I have supported Bielsa because he made us a club people want to watch. The bigger clubs in the PL know how to beat us and they have the quality to do it. The lower PL clubs need an immense effort but they can also do it. We just don't have the quality to get the ball into the net. Bielsa is absolutely right. It's not his system that is the problem, it's that the players can't do what is asked of them, for whatever reason. Even if you take the matches against, for example, Liverpool, I want the manager to conclude that he just doesn't have the players to compete so he needs to do what Watford did today. Get something or at least make it very difficult for the opponent to beat you. The Brazil philosophy is that they will score more than you so don't care what you do. We're not in that position. I think with a full squad to choose from we can go toe to toe with all of them but we don't have a full squad. I didn't see the game today but watching the Liverpool game was depressing. They didn't break a sweat. Maybe Bielsa doesn't have the players to do anything else but, if we carry on like this, we won't get any more points this season. It is that serious. We need to dig deep and fight because most of the teams we're playing are better than us. Add to that our player's confidence is in the toilet and we are really in the ****. We can't score, we know that, so build a big fkn brick wall at the back. We need to stop conceding goals.
Hi everyone Yet another tonking, that table now looking very ominous, anyone that thinks were not in seriouse sh** needs their footballing brain examined, Only way out i can see is to, and i say this with a very heavy heart, is to replace Bielsa, his stubbornness with the same team and tactics will now get us surely relegated. Ijust can't believe i feel i have to type that, but after the hope of last season i realy thought without a doubt, the only way was up, we seemed to have had the foundations of a truly great team, but not building on what we already had (ie strengthening the team in the close season) making players have to compete for the shirt has cost us, the signings we have made, have largely been very poor, along with bad luck through injuries but as others have said is it over training causing our injury problems, i just can't believe after all our progress under Bielsa that it now seems to have come undone, maybe to late for a new coach to save us or would it, the first thing they would do is not play round pegs in square holes, we might not be as exciting to watch, but would be a bloody site hardy to beat, then just maybe accumilating a few more points along the way, which might be just enough to save us , come the end of the season.
Raphinha (might be the exception), Costa, Poveda, Harrison, Bamford, Roberts, Rodrigo anyone who’s played in an attacking position. Bamford had one decent season last year
