True, the football's not been great. But the difference between this spell without Mane, and the one after Christmas is that we have been getting the points somehow.
So actually that does fill me with more confidence for next season, there are signs that occasionally now we can win ugly.
I don't think what we've been doing could actually be called ' Winning ugly ' though. It certainly has been ugly but we never at any point look comfortable.
I think ' Winning ugly ' applies to the odd game being ground out but that's not what we are doing. It's constant haphazard football , poor game management ( IMO ) combined with the team looking like strangers and unable to put 4 decent passes together.
If this team threw this away and , say , lost their next two games , nobody would be surprised . That , for me , is where there is a deep rooted problem at the club , if you simply do not know what you are going to get next , then you cannot trust the majority of these players.
If we do fall over the line and get CL , then i would be worried that it would paper over some serious cracks involving players who would be deemed to be good enough. Only then to see this ugly pattern repeat itself next season.
The Defence needs gutting for me , Clyne , Lovren , Mignolet , Klavan and Moreno sold or maybe , in the case of Clyne & Lovren , made squad players.
We need a top Striker and a top Midfielder or it's more of the same for me. The idea of Jürgen thinking " Well this team finished 3rd so all we need is maybe a LB and a Striker " fills me with dread. This team needs serious work on it.
Logged