2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[john jako]

We have an injury crisis.

It's that simple.

So because we have an injury crisis you rest doucoure and Allan? The one place on the pitch we don’t have an injury crisis?

 

[Bulgarian toffee]

If that's City away, I'd have said play the kids, got unlucky with the draw, so be it. I couldn't give a toss about the League Cup.

But I understand that others do, so when you get QPR away then with the scenario we have then you don't take risks with it - you put the game to bed and make sure you're in the next round.

Benitez - in my mind inexplicably - decided to be Billy Big Bollocks about it and play a reserve team. He deserves every ounce of criticism for it, because if he didn't have the nous to understand the damage this has caused him, then he deserves that damage.

I agree 100%.
Benitez didn"t do enough to beat an awful QPR side. I am not sure that he even tried hard enogh. He was stubborn and inflexible and practically blatantly neglected the 3000 supporters that went to the game.

 

[BlueToff]

Not really blaming that on him tonight

If our defenders had actually done what they were supposed to and we didn’t have a crap back up goalie that he probably didn’t even want then we win that easy even with the side selected

I personally think we should have had the guts to go for Potter over Benitez as he’s getting more out of that Brighton squad than seemingly possible and he would have been a far less divisive appointment, but Benitez is what we have

Tbf though, you can flip that –

- Benitez wanted Begovic in and set that deal in place (and he's just another hologram, whereas Olsen has ended up going to Sheff Utd on loan?) - again, where is brands in this?
- Benitez, surely knowing how QPR play (because they've played this way all season), decided that he'd play Holgate and Godfrey CB up against Austin or Dykes.

 

[BlueToff]

So because we have an injury crisis you rest doucoure and Allan? The one place on the pitch we don’t have an injury crisis?

tbf I believe Allan has an injury

 

[davek]

Dave.

As you have just said this, can you please tell me who is starting instead of Iwobi, Gordon, Rondon and one of Kenny, Holgate or Godfrey (at right-back) as you claimed earlier, please mate?

Thank you.

Keane, Doucoure, Gray, Allan, Mina all to come back in. It could even be that Branthwaite comes back in somewhere if Digne doesn't make it. Godfrey will go to LB. And given Rondon played again and not rested I see Richarlson making it.

 

[windymiller]

I can't complain mate, it was an excellent jibe

I'm still waiting to hear who we're playing instead of all of our injured players on Saturday, though

Dave has all the answers, except when he doesn't, then he has some more answers.

 

[wiggum23]

Let's see.

At the end of the day it's 'kin Norwich!

We should win, but let’s be honest, nobody here would be surprised if we get turned over.

 

[davek]

So because we have an injury crisis you rest doucoure and Allan? The one place on the pitch we don’t have an injury crisis?

If you're priority is the PL and not a 3 handled piss pot, yes.

 

[BlueToff]

Keane, Doucoure, Gray, Allan, Mina all to come back in. It could even be that Branthwaite comes back in somewhere if Digne doesn't make it. Godfrey will go to LB. And given Rondon played again and not rested I see Richarlson making it.

Okay we'll see on Saturday but that would still mean six of them playing as I said.

Cheers.

 

[windymiller]

Embarassing post.

Our fans are worse than Geordies these days.

You're basically Jimmy Nail at this point, pal

 

[dublinbluenose]

We have an injury crisis.

It's that simple.

We're an injury crisis waiting to happen each week unfortunately.

Hopefully Digne was just a precaution.

 

[Nymzee]

With Tom Davies in midfield and Jonjoe Kenny at right back? Are you sure about that? Have you been watching Everton for the last 6 or 7 years?

We have become a fanbase of total Geordies, it's killing me.

Yes, a team of PL players should beat a team of Championship players.

 

[COYBL25]

Its almost like playing weakened sides full of dross gets you knocked out.

I'm fed up losing these games. Its embarrassing and its avoidable.

This is spot on.

I know we don’t have a squad like City and I know we have injuries, but even a blind man can see that our best chance of winning anything for the foreseeable, is a cup.

It’s embarrassing and incredibly disrespectful to the fans.

Plus, as many have said, it was a chance for him to get the fans on board.

Lose against Norwich at the weekend and things will turn nasty, very quickly.

 

[wiggum23]

We're an injury crisis waiting to happen each week unfortunately.

Hopefully Digne was just a precaution.

Benitez reckons it’s not serious.

 

[davek]

We should win, but let’s be honest, nobody here would be surprised if we get turned over.

I would be.

FFS, can people just take a look at those carrot crunchers numbers this season. Scored 2, conceded 14, no points.

Put the bleach away.