Worried when I saw the starting line up. It looked weak and incredibly unbalanced to me. Fears were confirmed watching the first half because apart from the first ten minutes or so, I thought we were dire. We took our foot off the gas and let brighton grow into the game and they caused us all kinds of problems. Our back four looked all over the place, in particular neco williams. I went in on him after the Atalanta game and then wondered whether I was too harsh or not but I wasn’t, the kid is miles out of his depth and is nowhere near this level. Luckily, we escaped with the penalty miss that neco gave away.
Second half was better when henderson came on. Midfield looked more balanced and neco got pulled so our defence looked more solid. Jota scored a great goal and we looked in control. I was surprised to see salah go off. He looked fresh and sharp to me. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but can’t help but think if he remained on the pitch he would have had a chance or two and we might have seen that game out.
Then in stoppage time we concede a penalty. Read a few comments in here refusing to accept its a penalty. Don’t know where you lads have been for the past twenty years but that’s how football is now. If there’s contact, then it’s a penalty. And robertson made contact. It’s completely irrelevant what robertsons intentions were, or what his eyes were looking at, or whether welbeck had his back to goal or not so stop embarrassing yourselves or learn & understand the game before you talk sh*te about it.
What I will say is though, is how VAR has ruined the game. I knew it would. The referee has no control or opinion on anything and every decision is slowed down and analysed. Things do look different in play rather than a slowed down replay but it’s never taken into consideration.
Finally, in my opinion, Jürgen embarrassed himself a little bit in his interview and I’ll explain why. I agree 100% with everything he said and the broadcasters, FA and premierleague are definitely partly responsible for our injury crisis. However, you can’t take a huge lump sum of money from those broadcasters before the season starts and then moan when they put you on their channel. That money should have paid for a bigger squad. If Jürgen and the club want to moan about the broadcasters then sound, but don’t take their money and F**k then off then and refuse to play on their channels.
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