That, yes.
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If we were going to play such a terrible lineup and not try to win the match, why not play the academy guys?
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Lope praising Chelsea as if it’s out of this world. Well, it’s him making Chelsea play like a king.
Useless passes just to play for a draw backfires as always.
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Shameful performance from the B team, as well as from all the first team players in both halves whenever they were fielded. It’s not Lope’s fault. He wanted to see what the B team is made of, as this is the perfect opportunity to do so and Chelsea did more or less the same by resting key players such as: Zouma, Kante, Werner, Mount, Chilwell etc. And it turns out, our B team is made of shit.
We have below average players like Rekik (who luckily for him but unluckily for us is playing regularly lately, he’s crap), Sergi Gomez and Mudo and a lot of average players like Diego Carlos (him and Gomez were schooled like little kids by Giroud), Rakitic and Gudelj. I’ll cut a slack only for Idrissi who is still new to the team, Oscar who really tried and was all over the pitch, YEN for not having anyone to provide for him, Navas was not on proper element tonight and it’s very logical as he’s playing every 3-4 days at 35 years old - and of course, the poor young goalie who made some interesting saves and didn’t perform bad in overall, in fact none of the goals were his fault, rather it was our pathetic defense and defensive midfield.
This game tonight showed that we’re still a team of clowns, who claim to be professional footballers - therefore not a serious team, and Chelsea showed that they were. Their B team got out there and won with character, knowing clearly what they had to do, not messing around and getting the very deserved first place - hats off to them, they outclassed us tonight. Beside the what… 10-15 mins in the first half that we strung some passes together, we haven’t shown anything throughout the match - the players were bloodless and totally uninspired. I can understand the first team players thinking about RM, but what the hell did the rest have to think about when they’re clearly not playing against RM? Pathetic bastards.
Anyway, I hope this won’t ever be repeated again this season, not even in CDR at any cost and that this is just a one-off anomaly or accident however you want to call it.
What I will say is this - if I see Rekik in the lineup vs. RM and not Vidal, I won’t watch the game. We may win 10-0 but I won’t watch it simply, it’s an offense to the intelligence of a supporter that knows a thing or two about football to have the below average Rekik feature at a very demanding position like that, it’s purely nonsense and pathetic and has to be avoided like plague. I hope Lope won’t disappoint!
Also, we won’t make it to the quarters if we don’t sign another full back in January, even if Acuna will be fit by then. Rekik clearly doesn’t work at LB and day by day Kounde is showing signs that he doesn’t work well at RB. So Navas, Acuna and another full back who can play both sides, as I don’t expect Escudero to fully recover quickly, it may take 2-3 months before he’s mentally ready to play again at 100%, because those elbow and arm breaks are not a joke.
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Oh and one more thing, usually coaches get fired for such results at this stage with a team claiming to be one of the best Sevilla’s ever. But I won’t blame Lope for this humiliation tonight, again, I think he was simply let down by the pathetic players that can’t perform at all.
Lesson learned, no more heavy stupid rotations, it’s not worth it with the current players and we should go all in for the rest of the season, except maybe in CDR for which we shouldn’t care. Go all in in La Liga, there’s not much hope in CL but go all in there too.
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I don’t blame Lopetegui either. He wanted the first team to be rested for Madrid which is understandable, except we simply don’t have the squad depth to be doing that. This was an embarrassing result, and I hope we can at least get at least two backup players in January, especially at right back. Kounde is class at center back, but certainly not at right back.
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I do blame Lopetegui. You can’t expect a B team to play against a solid side when you haven’t played these guys together before. Mudo gets 10 minutes a game for a few matches, but hasn’t played in weeks and you start him? You can’t just throw a team to the wolves. You have to gradual build to this. He hasn’t trusted these guys in critical matches prior to this to build confidence. This isn’t a video game. Form and playing together matters.
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True
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It was a limited market. So it was probably hard to find proper suitors anyway.
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Agreed, we should’ve seen something from Javi Vazques at LB and other canteras as well since we were going with this kind of lineup. Lope tried to make a mix, but it failed. Hopefully lesson learned, I don’t think such thing will be repeated, it would be crazy really - and hopefully it won’t have a bad impact in team’s morale going forward. 0-4 at home is a disaster in many perspectives.
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Javi Vazquez is not ready for this level.
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The squad lacks athleticism. Slow and predictable, we can’t go in fast and unexpected way. All we can have is set pieces. That’s ruined as well thanks to Oscar and Rakitic. We have been missing Banega’s pinpoint accuracy.
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He at least needs to play in the first division. I’m sure Pablo Perez is more ready. But i agree, how can you prove yourself without the minutes? That’s why Bryan & Pozo’s loans work well for us.
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I’d bold Rekik there too and get 2 CB’s, and C Fernandez maybe but would be ok giving him another season if he steps it up.
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We need to prioritize full backs especially on the right. I don’t see us going far this season if we don’t get more squad depth
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wow… humiliated by Giroud, didn’t expect that.
I guess it shows that we need to play our absolute best 11 to compete with even B team of strong teams.
So unless Monchi has the budget to reinforce in Jan, Lope need to sacrifice either league points or chance to advance in knockout stage.
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I extremely doubt we’ll have enough money in January to make good signings
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Without a sale, I agree with you. The progression through the groups in the Champions League will net us some money though. There could be lots of opportunities for loans imo with folks looking to shed some payroll.
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So frustrated and it came out a bit in this episode. I hope ya enjoy.
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