Positives. Douglas Luiz is a class player.
Negatives. We are not set up to utilise Chris Wood's strengths..
Yes we had the ball more with some good one touch passing but like Tricky said, we it don't progress the ball up the field half as fast as Nuno's team did. Also i noticed that there were no runs from deep or up front to break the lines. It was trying to pass the ball through the opposition which is fine if you can do it but it was slow enough for Bumley to get back behind the. ball and defend reasonably easily. If we had kept the lead longer I think we would have caught them as few times except that Ndoye isn't fast so he obviously isn't the threat that Elanga was and we could possibly have been dicking around with the ball more.
We look confident on the ball but as much as I like Zinchenko going forward he is a fcuking liability at the back and we don't look like keeping a clean sheet at all. This could very well be the product of losing Aina and Murillo.
Now having said that , as yes we look very dodgy at the back and the trying to play out under pressure is pretty fucking stupid as we were caught a few times. Other teams with better players definitely would have capitalized on that, the Bumley keeper did make some very very good saves and we made chances. I suspect our goals per chances will go down though as the types of things we are creating are not as clear cut.
Yes we were the better team but that is not to say we could have lost too. Morato and the Serbinator are fucking slow and with the full backs pushed up to Mars they are on an island of their own.
Pleasing on the eye but definitely less deadly at the moment and more prone to the counter attack. I would be shocked if Ange isn't screaming for faster defenders in January.
Might work better in Europe.
We shall see on Wednesday.
Chicago: Hoping we start putting more points on the board.
