2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[chazzle_dazzle]

…..conceding the first goal regularly is more to do with organisation, formation & strategy than about personnel.

Absolutely Eggs, down to coaching.

We can't go from being one of the better teams from set pieces to one of the worst I've seen when its predominantly the same players.

Coaching, system and set up is at fault of our set pieces nothing more nothing less

 

[davek]

Strikers being key to defending set pieces.

Says it all.

Ha Ha ha.

It's like you've never watched Everton or any other PL club ever.

 

[Nymzee]

Ha Ha ha.

It's like you've never watched Everton or any other PL club ever.

City have conceded the least amount of goals in the league and their striker is 5’10”.

 

[davek]

Dave come on mate, you can’t seriously say our defensive set up is good, we showed under Silva that zonal marking doesn’t work so why is Rafael insisting on sticking with it?

Take DCL and Richarlison of Everton's team under Ancelotti and Silva and yould get defensive problems like we have this season.

 

[Lob]

Someone needs to explain to Benitez what the term getting rid of our dead wood means. Will give you a clue Rafael, it doesn't mean selling 25 million pound highly rated players to rival premier league clubs and taking that clubs own dead wood away from them. Kin embarrassing and soul destroying watching this man be allowed to dismantle my club piece by piece.

 

[hallamblue]

…..conceding the first goal regularly is more to do with organisation, formation & strategy than about personnel.

And mentality to be fair to Benitez. Whilst I agree his tactics aren't good, our weak mentality at the start of matches pre- dates him.

 

[Furey1878]

Once we've limped to safety and are inevitably out of the cup, get this fella gone.

 

[Saint Domingo]

City have conceded the least amount of goals in the league and their striker is 5’10”.

We’ll take their 5’10 striker if they can also give us Dias Laporte Cancelo Zinchenko Rodri De Bruyne Mahrez

I’m sure we’d do alright on set pieces with that lot

In the meantime though we’d probably improve a bit if Mina DCL Richarlison, three of our best headers of the ball in the team, ever got on the pitch again.

 

[Nymzee]

We’ll take their 5’10 striker if they can also give us Dias Laporte Cancelo Zinchenko Rodri De Bruyne Mahrez

I’m sure we’d do alright on set pieces with that lot

In the meantime though we’d probably improve a bit if Mina DCL Richarlison, three of our best headers of the ball in the team, ever got on the pitch again.

Are the likes of Mahrez and Zinchenko renowned defensive set piece specialists or something? Just because they’re better players doesn’t mean they make the difference lol

You come out with some properly thick defending of Benitez I swear.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Are the likes of Mahrez and Zinchenko renowned defensive set piece specialists or something? Just because they’re better players doesn’t mean they make the difference lol

You come out with some properly thick defending of Benitez I swear.

It’s not even defending Benitez, it’s just railing against absolutely ridiculous criticism.

Both of them are tallish players to add to the excellent centrebacks and holding mid they already have (which we don’t) . City give away far less set pieces as well given that they nearly always have the ball.

So how is claiming that City have a small striker but the best set piece defence as some sort of repudiation of the fact we’ve missed DCL and Richarlison nothing short of utterly utterly ridiculous agenda driven nonsense.

 

[Nymzee]

It’s not even defending Benitez, it’s just railing against absolutely ridiculous criticism.

Both of them are tallish players to add to the excellent centrebacks and holding mid they already have (which we don’t) . City give away far less set pieces as well given that they nearly always have the ball.

So how is claiming that City have a small striker but the best set piece defence as some sort of repudiation of the fact we’ve missed DCL and Richarlison nothing short of utterly utterly ridiculous agenda driven nonsense.

Mahrez is 5’10” and Zinchenko is 5’9”

Give up mate I feel like I’m just punching a dead person in a fight at this point.

 

[Marius57]

Mahrez is 5’10” and Zinchenko is 5’9”

Give up mate I feel like I’m just punching a dead person in a fight at this point.

You don't know how tall @Saint Domingo is. 5'9 might be massive to him.

 

[Nymzee]

You don't know how tall @Saint Domingo is. 5'9 might be massive to him.

It’s my own fault really. I wasn’t aware that being a great attacking player automatically made you mint at defending set pieces regardless of height. Nothing to do with coaching of course.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

You don't know how tall @Saint Domingo is. 5'9 might be massive to him.

He can’t be especially big, since he fits up Dave’s rectum so snugly

 

[BlueToff]

I actually can't stand watching us atm, like there's no pleasure in it.

When we concede I feel nothing, because it's all so predictable in how we concede, why we concede etc.

When we score I feel nothing. That Gray goal v Hull was a wonderful bit of individual skill and I just feel nothing, because I know that somehow Benitez gets the credit.

He's a huge, huge problem and the day we hired him was the day I think I really fell out of love with this club for the time being. I couldn't care less if we go down tbh, we deserve it.

And he's not the only problem. Moshiri is a lunatic and Kenwright hangs around like a bad smell having found the one billionaire that actually would let him stay on the board.

I haven't been able to get to a game since COVID hit and I'm not planning on putting any of my money into the club any time soon.