Not our worst performance but in some ways the most worrying

[redgunamo]

Is it? Or is it just a different kind of pressure?

We need to get to benidorm ASAP

Certainly a different kind of pressure. The pressure we actually want is the kind where we're going to win the league. On the other hand, the pressure that derives from the realisation that we are NOT going to win the league brings a different level of pressure, even discomfort entirely. I doubt even a week in Benidorm would help with that.

[redgunamo]

Truth!

Trossard's form appears to have fallen off a cliff, mind...

He was never intended to have to control games for ninety minutes every week. When he arrived and when he comes on as a sub, his instructions are very simple and very clear; create goals, score goals.

[PSRB]

Martinelli basically wears out the RB for 60-70 minutes and then Trossard comes on and exploits this.

[redgunamo]

Without wanting to pile on, at what stage do we stop thinking about martinelli situation as an issue of form or confidence and start seeing it as something else? Since the start of last season, over 45 games, he has fewer goals and assists than Declan Rice. Is anyone really out of form for that long?

Very few wingers are brilliant season after season after season.

[Peter]

Very few wingers are brilliant season after season after season.

Yeah. They tend to play for the teams that win the league

[redgunamo]

Martinelli basically wears out the RB for 60-70 minutes and then Trossard comes on and exploits this.

Quite right.

[Peter]

Certainly a different kind of pressure. The pressure we actually want is the kind where we're going to win the league. On the other hand, the pressure that derives from the realisation that we are NOT going to win the league brings a different level of pressure, even discomfort entirely. I doubt even a week in Benidorm would help with that.

Well I think we're all agreed then. We're under pressure

[Peter]

He was never intended to have to control games for ninety minutes every week. When he arrived and when he comes on as a sub, his instructions are very simple and very clear; create goals, score goals.

This is very true. His job is to make stuff happen, not shape the game.

[redgunamo]

Yeah. They tend to play for the teams that win the league

Which is why we ought to have won it last season, I guess.

[PSRB]

Which is why we ought to have won it last season, I guess.

and Doku is enormously overrated.