I haven't read any of the assesmments so far, because I went to play a game of pool and kept winning and ended up being in the bar til almost 2am. All the while drinking cheap beer. but here it is.
Fuck all of that. If they play like that again next Sunday, I risk getting thrown out of the stadium for abusive language because after the first 15 minutes, we were fucking garbage.
Mix was decent, Villa didn't want to be there. Kreis put out some experimental garbage lineup and none of them gave the slightest hint of a shit in terms of wanting to win the game.
Somebody, if you dare, convince me that Jefferson Mena is a footballer. Seriously. Couldnt't block a cross; couldn't mark his man; fell on his ass when a cross came in; could rarely head the ball away; scored an OG (not given) with his fucking arse; sclaffed the ball towards his own goal more than once. Get this useless gobshite out of the team and out of the state.
Kwame is also a dreadful center half. at least he scored a stunner, but he was a part of that patchy defence that showed no shape, stayed too deep and couldn't defend against an under 7s team.
Calle at LB? Fucking Jesus. 2 keepers on the bench; Poku on with 15 minutes to go; WHERE WAS LAMPARD??? I understand he was in the starting XI but when the ball landed in the area behind the strikers there was no one to pick it up. That should have been his area. We missed Pirlo badly, no one in front of the defence starting plays and the worst element for me was that when we broke, it was always one or two guys on their own - no attacking structure, no support from midfield, everyone is already on their holidays.
Don't get me wrong, i'll be cheering from the moment I get in my seat next Sunday, but I will yell non stop at anyone that doesn't put a decent shift in. We have one more game to go and if we play like we did tonight, in front of a packed Yankee Stadkum, every single one of those players should expect to hear me shout their name followed by a four letter expletive.
On the plus side, Ryan's Daughter had super tasty food again and, apparently, I'm some kind of drunk pool genius.
Oh, also, congrats to Orlando. Your tactic of paying off the ref worked out. TMac gets chopped down by two guys; foul against. Ballouchy gets hauled back by an arm round the waist; foul against. Maybe our guys thought they couldn't win in that scenario, but they get paid well enough to at least keep trying.