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2022/23 Frank Lampard

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The way we were passing sideways with no purpose makes me think they were going for the draw. Unfortunately you're far more likely to concede with that sort of negative mindset than if you show iniative to pen your opponent back in their own third.

Maybe with 30 mins left, not 30 seconds.
 
This is what has my alarm bells ringing.

All that time and not one thing had changed. I know its the same players etc, can't do anything about that, but having the exact same set up and game plan is madness.
Benitez was the same every week picking Rondon when everyone could see it wasn't working but stubbornly sticking to his guns and now 12 months later Lampard doing exactly the same with Maupay.

We need a physical presence up front and I don't know why he doesn't play Onana as a battering ram 10 a la Fellaini, it probably won't be his best position but he makes a difference. On his debut he created the goal that got us back in the game and then very nearly scored an equaliser, he also got an assist in the box for Coady's goal at Southampton. Sticking him in the box for the last 10 of games when we are at home is a decent option as he will occupy defenders and create panic.
 
It’s not so much that we lost a point, it’s worse that a team below us picked up 3 on us.
I’m not as bothered about losing a point, as much as I’d be bothered about not trying to get three when at home vs the team at the bottom. The same scenario vs Brighton and the last thing I’d want us to do is play keep ball in our own half. The idea that weren’t not allowed to lose possession by going for the winner is just plain dumb to me (and would only make sense if one team went down and they were below us). The fault lay with the recovery from losing possession, which was lost in their area.
 

How is he still in the job? One of the worst managers in our history, he is tactically clueless and is getting nothing out of this squad. Makes me wonder what him and his 100 staff have been doing for 6 weeks as it doesn't look like he has been working on tactics.
Also the mask is slipping, blaming the fans for wanting us to push forward in the final mins against the bottom side is just stupid.
 
Yep, and as sad as that is. Thats where we currently are.

That point would have moved us up the league.
Settling for a point won’t help us in the long run. Teams who stay up will be far more committed to ensuring three points vs struggling teams. The idea that “a point will do, providing no one else wins” isn’t what kept us up last season.
 
That’s the crux of the matter. We’re giving teams in the relegation zone three points, which helps aids them and puts us closer to the mire.
If we drew yesterday which is the bare minimum we should have done we would now be above West Ham and probably go above Leeds later on goal difference when they get tonked by Man City.
 

What forwards do Bournemouth have? The World Cup break seems to have clouded people’s memories, but incase you’ve forgotten we got battered by bloody Bournemouth twice in a week shipping 7 goals in the process. He should have been out there and then. The lengths some go to to defend this clown is incredible just because he “gets us”. This “he gets us” guff gets right on my tits.

"he's one of us" is by far the worst shout.

He's a southern Tory Chelsea legend who played a 2nd string side in the cup when we have nothing to play for in the league.

How exactly is he one of us ? :Blink:
 
So basically, it’s not Kevin Thelwells fault for having the entire summer to identify attacking options and the furthest he got was Burnley and Brighton

There’s literally no accountability at his end, that knowing the we had to sell Richarlison as far back as him arriving at the club, and he failed to identify a suitable replacement from an entire world of thousands of players.

He spent the best part of 6 months looking for an attacking threat and came back with a man who hasn’t hit double figures in his entire career.

This. He joined the club in February didn’t he? That is enough time to have sourced a replacement for a player we knew was going to have to leave.
 

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