It does not excuse our form and all the individual mistakes and form of some players but F**k am I tired of looking at the team sheet and seeing Hendo and Fabinho playing at CB and Wijnaldum as a CDM. I'm at the point where it actually irritates me.
Ali: awful mistake. Needs a game or two on the bench. Reset mentally
Mane: getting a very very easy pass since the beginning of the season in comparison to Bobby and Mo in terms of the criticism of his performances (or lack of criticism to be more accurate). He is awful. Holds on to the ball too much and seems sluggish with his footwork, he loses the ball way more often than he dispatches passes or get around players.
The whole team: We have a big problem with creativity. I'm not going to pretend I know the causes of that problem as it could be anything really but you can tell, as somebody watching on the telly, from the way we carry the ball and the speed at which we move with and without it that we are not going to create any significant danger. Every player that receives a pass seems lost and has to hold on to the ball for a few seconds while he looks around him and tries to decide where to send it next. It's simply too slow (and please don't tell me its Thiago, every player has been guilty of it recently. There seems to be a general lack of movement and space finding too from those without the ball). Our defence is already brittle enough as it is, we can't ask of it to keep a clean sheet every game in order to have a chance to win the game.
I could only watch the 2nd half but even before Leicester's equalizer it was a sh*t performance from what I've seen and you knew that Mo's goal was all that we could muster and that the 20yo kid playing his 1st PL game, our CM/makeshift CB, and our GK who's going through a bad patch all had to be perfect for the rest of the game for us to get away with the 3 points.
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