As above Mir definitely seems to be the current striker out of favour with Lope. Given Dolberg’s performance tonight, he must have done something serious…
It seems to be Lopetegui’s way of dealing with strikers, he bins one and then promotes the other, gives them nothing to work with and then subs them off after 60/70 mins. He then repeats the process for a game or two before rotating the starter… No wonder they have no confidence.
What an absolute yawn fest between two very average sides. We’re already now embroiled in a battle for that Europa League spot with Copenhagen. We don’t have any chance of getting through this group as far as I’m concerned.
Sevilla are so much better than this or they should be.
Can anyone realistically say we’re getting anything out of Villarreal, Atleti and Dortmund? I just can’t see it the way we’re playing. I can’t even see us beating Copenhagen at home.
It’s all too predictable, pass out wide from the back, pass it inside to midfield, then pass it out wide and cross! The time it takes to do this the opposition have re-grouped and got 8 players behind the ball, whilst we have 3-4 players getting forward, all of them being marked by at least one defender, this is why we don’t score many goals, we rely on the opposition to make the mistakes, it’s just so boring to watch…
They are basically waiting for the opposition to make a mistake to capitalise on it, there is no real thought process in the tactics, it’s a simple way to setup your team, you play not to lose instead of playing to win, and you keep waiting for a mistake and hope you can take the opportunity, it’s ok against teams that are also trying not to lose but against teams that have a fast transition and play more offensively we are going to get nothing out of the game…