I have to remind myself sometimes that this is the same team that won a game 9-0 only a few weeks ago.
It’s not just him your right , but you got to start somewhere and he should have been culled end of last season .
And if he was, there would be posters queueing up after games like this to say we miss him, as they do about Wijnaldum.
Hard to believe we came from 0-2 down to go 3-2 up and still only ended up with a draw
When we went ahead, we stopped playing. We had no attacks, the focus switched to game management, which had to be discarded when we were not ahead anymore.
if we find ourselves in the Europa it will mean more games to an already packed season. Get a Grip
Two extra games max, 2.
And in case you don't know, there's a team in that competition currently top of the league atm. How do you explain that?
Yes he can twist & shout and swap stuff about, but if the brunt of your squad are heavy legged, knackered
From what. They hadn't played a league game in a month. And as for the last few seasons taking it's toll, you just have to laugh at this nonsense. What exactly is Tsimikas tired of? Konate, Elliott, Carvalho, Diaz, Nunez? It's a joke. But if they really are too tired, then get rid of them, throw them out, cast them aside, and give someone who isn't tired a go.
I hate tiredness being used to excuse poor performances by players. They live the life of Riley compared to the rest of us. So what's the bleedin problem? Yeah City have won a few titles recently but so be it. Get out there and do some bloody work, and win a few matches. They'll be long enough retired, to put their feet up. I accept that there is a chronic lack of investment by the penny pinchers that run the club, but we haven't gone from one of the best teams in the world to a bunch of geriatrics in just 4 months.
I wouldn't put it down to tiredness, cobwebs maybe, rustyness from no game for the past 3 weeks possibly, but there's no excuse for tiredness when you've had your feet up for 18 days, longer in some cases, and I won't accept it as a reason for this result.
I said last season and I'll say it again, having to change ends at the last minute and attack into the Kop in the first half throws us all psychologically for a while. Players and fans. Certainly it's a long time since I can remember a great performance from us when it happened. Add that to the new manager bounce they had, and that we've struggled against them at home over the past few seasons, (this was the third year running we've dropped points against them here and the 2 years before that were long hard slogs) then this was a banana skin waiting to happen, and sure enough we slipped on it again.
At least VAR came to the rescue again, and showed again why we need it. Otherwise we wouldn't have even got a point, and we would now have 3 league losses in the last 55 games.