No excuses. No prisoners. No room for mediocrity. Traditional 3pm kick off and the Bridge will be up for this. No kante, ben, trev or kova. Jorg will be back and should immediately improve us in that spot. COYB
Oof. 7:00 am West Coast start in the dead of Seattle winter after a long week feels like 4:00 am. Expecting my sacrifice to cure our run of shakey form.
16Mendy 28Azpilicueta 6Thiago Silva 2Rüdiger 24James 12Loftus-Cheek 5Jorginho 3Alonso 11Werner 29Havertz 19Mount
Got some subs too Substitutes 1Arrizabalaga 4Christensen 9Lukaku 10Pulisic 17Saúl 18Barkley 20Hudson-Odoi 22Ziyech 31Sarr
So if it doesn't we can all blame you? I mean, we're going to anyway... just wanted to check that's what you meant.
This team is unrecognizable from our early season form. We have so many quality players, but all this lineup variability can’t be helping. Can’t seem to achieve that rhythm or flow from before.
Werner looks like he's playing the game delayed by about 5 seconds from the rest of the people on the pitch.
Alonso is terrible. Way too slow for the prem, exposed time and time again. Chilly was our best player before his injury.
Havertz at least has the possibility to create something out of the blue. The chances of Werner creating something our of the blue, (apart from running straight into 4 defenders and falling flat on his face), is almost ZERO. He should come off and we should bring Puli on IMO. In a game like this where we're pressing them back and he can't stretch the game, his supposed 'speed' is irrelevant.
I have lost patience with Werner. He is the weakest link. He's exactly what you expect him to be every time he gets the ball. You know exactly what he is going to do. What he is going to try to do. Heinz has 57 varieties. Werner has zero variety.
The thing is, he scored a couple of goals the other day but, bluntly, they were only goals someone else would have scored anyway. And, as you say, in almost every other area of play he contributes virtually NOTHING. He's not going to take anyone on and beat them. He's a bad passer. He's useless in the air. He's got no shot to speak of that I've seen. What CAN he do?