21 Oct 2022 14:34:26
My bottom line for Sunday is, if a win is beyond us, we go down with skill and more importantly controlled, cohesive aggression.
21 Oct 2022 16:44:35
With you Leo, but I think the players were telling us what they think yesterday.
I saw a lower effort than I ever saw at the end of Bielsa's reign. If we see the same again at the weekend we will know for sure he's lost the dressing room.
21 Oct 2022 17:14:30
Agree with both of you. A) we can not go out with a whimper, and B) if the players have lost faith in him, then he has no way back. Plus shame on them for not fighting to the death!
21 Oct 2022 17:44:46
Thought a lot about the two games, Arsenal and then Leicester, really weird! I just thought everything looked confused at the end of Thursdays games, confusing lineup, confusing tactics and in the end confused players. Despite all that if sini had seen his shot dip left, it’s a different game. But again everyone’s face looked like they thought the luck was against them as well. I think we’ll see more fight on Sunday but will it be enough?
21 Oct 2022 19:24:19
You would have expected it as a given Span, that the boys are totally aware of our precarious league position and would give it all week in week out, it was just such polar opposite displays, in the space of 96 hours sadly
Can't imagine what the mood in camp was this morn ?.
21 Oct 2022 21:27:32
I’m the same, I can’t make any sense out of the two performances in such a short space of time, the gap was massive.
They way I saw the game against Leicester was that the players were confused, they definitely looked rattled in defense, no cohesion whatsoever. As the commentators said we looked "disjointed ", for me this is a failure on the behalf of Marsch, I think the players are confused by his tactics and there within lies the problem. It appears that his selection of players is indecisive, I want to be proven wrong by Marsch but my gut feeling tells me different.
His next 2/ 3 games are decisive if not in result but by performances, I couldn’t stomach another performance the same as against Leicester.