Inconsistency this season

Not always. Today for example, Tierney got the ball, stoats forward in to acres of space. Nobody near him, instead of continuing forward in to space or looking for a pass he just turned around and hit it back to Ajer.
So many wasted passes recently.

 

KT was as bad as everyone today cant keep saying he was good when he was'nt

 

He’s having a poor season. It’s no coincidence KT and Sinclair are both having poor seasons.

 

Yes fair points.

I'm never a good person to speak to shortly after a game that hasn't went how I intended.

Think you make a lot of good points, and apologies if it seems i've twisted what you said to make a joke.

 

I see a lot of folk have a go at the defence and defenders.

But looking at it slightly differently, a Rodgers team isn’t one focussed on clean sheets and the way he wants to play would make all but the best defenders look poor through inevitable mistakes.

The point is, a Rodgers team is supposed to score goals to make up for goals conceded. It’s only when that’s not happening that we have a problem.

The defence takes no blame for me on a day like today. That attacking force should be banging in 3 or 4 for every goal conceded. No shots in target in 89 mins..

 

And considering we had Dembele, Edouard, Sinclair, Ntcham, Musonda, Forrest all on the pitch at some point during the game, it’s not good enough.

 

I hope he will today he was getting pushed off the ball to easy Brendan will beef him up and he will be a great signing

 

Pizza Crunch or Weight room?

 

Both

 

Sums up most of this season for me. I know we want to keep possession but we've been far too negative at times, passing the ball backwards a lot of the time. It's okay to try some long diagonals at times to get us further up the park and in the opposition half which puts their defenders under pressure. It's alright having 70% possession in games but when most of that is passing between our centre halves at the edge of our box its pretty ineffectual not to mention pish to watch.

In saying that, when we win the treble this year no one will be complaining.

 

Pogues, "]It's alright having 70% possession in games but when most of that is passing between our centre halves at the edge of our box its pretty ineffectual not to mention pish to watch.[/QUOTE]

Quite agree, I watched the 1st half today & it was the most boring half I've seen for a long time. The best bit was when Tierney or Ajer suddenly hit a long pass for Sinclair to run on to in the box. Nothing came of it but giving the ball away isn't , or shouldn't be a problem for us. We can win the ball back in their half & set up chances. Our pressing is good, but we don't need to do much of it. Teams playing us just watch us passing from side to side & wait for a mistake, then they counter attack.

Musonda looks a good player but at the moment he is running about all over the place, & this doesn't help our shape.

As someone said today was a perfect storm, everything was against us , & I don't think we should be too despondent.
The injuries are a worry though with the Zenit game coming up.

 

We have become a victim of our own success. last season was very extraordinary and raised our expectations to a level where they can't possibly be fulfilled anymore. we have been way too spoiled.

I fear our player habe taken off too.. some have been injured more often than not while others have been criminally out of form. do they think they are world beaters after last season and stopped giving 100% all the time because they are under the impression that they are far superior to their opponents?

I don't think fatigue or oversaturation come into play just yet. More likely it's been a mix of too much self-confidence (and less hustling), injuries, bad luck and new lineups every day.

it's all in their heads and BR will fix this.

Still, we are complaining abotu first world problems and will win this league with about 1 million points ahead.

 

The mentality of the whole team looks inconsistent and contrasting at times to last season. Most games last year we looked hungry and ready to outplay anyone (with the exception of a couple of games where we looked stumped - huns 0-0 at home for example). We look that way far too often this term - that sideways pass pass pass approach is all to reminiscent of Deila's team to me.

Injuries have been awful luck, there's no getting away from that. It depletes our options, removes the competition for places that kept players on their toes, and it's hard for those injured to get back to form.

Form of key players - Moussa, Jozo, Sinclair, Lustig, Griff, Tierney. Just not looked as confident or effective as last year.

The answer? * knows, I thought a lot of it was down to fatigue but after the break we've only really looked good against hearts and brechin (hardly a marker). The zenit game concerns me because we play badly against them and our problems will be exposed even further than against Killie yesterday.

 

Think it’s the fact we have 6-7 of our first team out injured and have done since the start

 

Think our confidence took a heavy dip after our two pumpings vs PSG. We got properly beat by Barca last season, but everyone can suffer a heavy defeat at Camp Nou, we also had two positive draws against City to recover from that dreadful match. After 1-7 in Paris we haven't looked the same team as last season imo with the 5-1 vs Well and 3-0 vs sheeps as two exceptions.

 

I think we can all safely say defensively we are weakest, from a bad CB pairing, to RB being mundane and the GK situation with Gordon leaving a lot to be desired. But we still have one of the best defensive records around - domestically of course.

Our league form also isn't as bad as made out either, going by previous years we have won the league with as many as 5 or 7 losses, 7 draws etc etc. So far we aren't remotely near to hitting that many - maybe one more defeat in us. But that's only 3 in a whole season.

Defensively a few of the draws could have been sorted out - but that is nothing new from at least the last 3 years now - an issue we were all screaming to be sorted during January, bit hard luck to lose Compper and then get two injured in one match is a bit of bad luck as well.

That combined with the 2 most creative players in Rogic and Roberts both being injured is a right kick in the teeth for providing some excitment around the team. But all considered, we are still putting the results in where it matters and walking this league.
Seriously think a lot of us (and I include myself in this) are suffering from such a great season last year - result wise - that merely 2 defeats this year is borderline a crisis for some it seems. The creativity is clearly trying to be sorted, but as stated the loss of Rogic and Roberts is some hit. McGregor is a tidy player, but he aint half as creative as either of the other 2.


Think we all just need to wait this season out and understand that we have had some massive strokes of bad luck, yet still we are pulling this season together strongly - Europe aside.

 

We've had loads of injuries which has probably been the main cause, but our best players from last season haven't hit the form of last season. Moussa, Griff, Paddy, Sinclair, Rogic and Armstrong have been a bit below last seasons form. Granted Paddy and Rogic haven't had much chance

 

Even then, Moussa and Griffiths have both suffered form injury, then finding form when coming back in, plus rotation not giving a run.
Paddy and Rogic big injuries.
Armstrong even last season wasn't quite as good second half as he should have been, his form has been dipping for ages now.
Sinclair, still rattling the goals and assists in even during bad form - but I put that down to opponents doubling up on him and not letting him get the space to run - see Samaras with a similar issue in the SPFL.

Injuries really have * us. Then expectations I feel need to be slightly lowered from a few of us.