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Each to their own but I think he's been stinking the place out for weeks now. His intricate passing isn't coming off at the moment and his basic passing is suffering too. I think he's suffering under the weight of expectation, and I think a top quality striker to rotate in is just what he needs to take the pressure off.
I think he's been missing our press being as good as it was and our distribution being better in Fabinho's absence too, he was on fire until we changed and in commentary today Macca pointed out several times that he was making the runs and not being picked out, I said the same not just of Firmino, but of several players after we changed things, it changed the dynamic, the distribution from No6 was suddenly non-existent and our press and counter press was suddenly getting broken frequently.
I know it's an unpopular opinion, but changing what was working brilliantly to accommodate bringing Fabinho back in, who's been poor and affected the team's incredible form detrimentally was a major fuck up by Jurgen, he an absolutely incredible manager who gets everything so brilliantly right 99% of the time, but when he does get something wrong, by God he does not do it by halves.
I don't agree with him keeping Gomez in either and think he should have been trying to get Matip minutes and get him fit as soon as he was back in full training, he was imperious at the end of last season and the start of this and is clearly our second best defender.
All managers have favourites and blind spots with certain players, Jurgens are Fabinho, Gomez and Origi, which isn't a disaster by any means, it's not like it's Joe Fucking Allen
Edit: But for 'the error' I'm convinced we'd still be unbeaten, have a first leg Champions League lead and still be in the cup, we did what we did to ourselves unfortunately
Last edited by Nineteenx; 7th March 2020 at 10:18 PM.
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