Fulham (H) | 03/01/23 | Post-Match Thread

[The_77]

Thought Perez was pretty decent aside from his miss. There’s that. 

[John rayner]

49 minutes ago, southfox66 said:

We are going nowhere with the current manager, need to get a new one now !!!!!!

We need fresh players in ,hopefully we can do this in this transfer window, it's alright saying we need a new manager, but who is out there that would want to come.

 

 

 

 

[Guest Kopfkino]

The goal is so bad. Sums up the whole first half but particularly the first 25. Not secure in possession and then not enough aggression or desire out of possession and they played around us. It changed second half.
 

Amartey plays perfectly into their trap, Ndidi still needs to be better on the ball.

 

Tielemans doesn’t do enough to affect the ball. Firstly he doesn’t get across to Willian quick enough - jogs rather than sprints - Guimaraes (superb technically and physically) for example gets out there quick. Then he’s stood off too much, trying to show Willian outside but he’s not tight enough to do that and you can’t give players of Willian’s technical ability a couple of yards to find a lethal finisher like Mitrovic. It’s an inch perfect ball but the best way to defend it is to stop it at source and Tielemans doesn’t do that. The position he’s in when Willian plays the ball is damning.

 

 

Then you spot Thomas jogging back whilst Decordova-Reid sprints, in fact he’s on his bike whilst Thomas is watching. He starts with 5 yards on him, ends up a few yards behind and when Willian plays the ball he’s level with him but Decordova-Reid has moved inside. If he matches Decordova-Reid’s initial sprint he’s in Mitrovic’s vicinity when Willian plays the ball and can at least try to affect him -may not have succeeded but if you don’t give yourself a chance then you never know.

[CosbehFox]

5 minutes ago, Guest said:

I don't disagree with your overall point but if he's got a hamstring injury, which is certainly what it looked like, there's surely no point in him staying on and potentially aggravating it for the sake of looking brave.

It looked to me a whack on the ankle from a 50/50. If it’s a hammy yeah get him off 

[Blue-fox]

1 minute ago, CosbehFox said:

It looked to me a whack on the ankle from a 50/50. If it’s a hammy yeah get him off 

Was a hamstring i believe

[CosbehFox]

Just now, Blue-fox said:

Was a hamstring i believe

Stand corrected 

[fox_favourite]

We play football like a someone who has just started to play FIFA and only knows the simple pass button, or the button is stuck. 
 

 

[South Shire Fox]

16 minutes ago, Kopfkino said:

The goal is so bad. Sums up the whole first half but particularly the first 25. Not secure in possession and then not enough aggression or desire out of possession and they played around us. It changed second half.
 

Amartey plays perfectly into their trap, Ndidi still needs to be better on the ball.

 

Tielemans doesn’t do enough to affect the ball. Firstly he doesn’t get across to Willian quick enough - jogs rather than sprints - Guimaraes (superb technically and physically) for example gets out there quick. Then he’s stood off too much, trying to show Willian outside but he’s not tight enough to do that and you can’t give players of Willian’s technical ability a couple of yards to find a lethal finisher like Mitrovic. It’s an inch perfect ball but the best way to defend it is to stop it at source and Tielemans doesn’t do that. The position he’s in when Willian plays the ball is damning.

 

 

Then you spot Thomas jogging back whilst Decordova-Reid sprints, in fact he’s on his bike whilst Thomas is watching. He starts with 5 yards on him, ends up a few yards behind and when Willian plays the ball he’s level with him but Decordova-Reid has moved inside. If he matches Decordova-Reid’s initial sprint he’s in Mitrovic’s vicinity when Willian plays the ball and can at least try to affect him -may not have succeeded but if you don’t give yourself a chance then you never know.

Its all half arsed until its too late, has been for a long time now

[lgfualol]

Had this game on but barely watched it... it was just too predictable and frustrating. When I think about future games I just feel dread instead of excitement. 

[fox_favourite]

No aggression, no passion, no ideas, no flare is how I would sum it up. Relegation form. Half way through the season nearly and we’re in 17pts. That is poor. 
 

But have to add Fulham are a horrid team. Time wasting at every opportunity, every tackle was a head injury, every throw in took an an age, every goal kick, every opportunity to waste time. From the 24th minute. Was a horrid game to watch for both sides. 

Edited 3 January 2023 by fox_favourite

[Beechey]

1 minute ago, fox_favourite said:

We play football like a someone who has just started to play FIFA and only knows the simple pass button, or the button is stuck. 
 

 

Nah at least on fifa you can play passes with a single touch or two. We consistently take 4 or 5 touches.

[adam]

Another complete shit show. No one looked remotely interested out there. Fulham looked terrible at the back and we hardly tested them. 

Rodgers needs to go before he relegates us. 

People still clapping the side off after performances like that are an embarrassment. 

Shite.

[Ian Nacho]

Disgusting performance and I’m sick of it. Can’t be bothered going down to watch a team who are clearly not up for it within the first 5 minutes. All too predictable what was going to happen tonight. That little man needs to go. 

[FosseSpark]

The overall game, atmosphere and aroma around rodgers was wank tonight

BUT we lost two starting midfielders before 6 minutes was up, leaving a half fit Ndidi on.

Perez, Vardy and Barnes all should have scored, Tielemans almost broke the bar and Tielemans & Perez (again) came very close

Albrighton showed that he should play more often

Perez showed why he doesnt play ahead of usual starters.

 

Playing Barnes left wing back instead of going Castagne left, Albrighton right at the end killed us and was Rodgers fault.  We could have been pinging crosses in from wide both sides but everything had to go down the right as Barnes cant play wing back.

 

[Guest Col city fan]

Just now, adam said:

Another complete shit show. No one looked remotely interested out there. Fulham looked terrible at the back and we hardly tested them. 

Rodgers needs to go before he relegates us. 

People still clapping the side off after performances like that are an embarrassment. 

Shite.

The City fans are full of happy clappers. People who don’t really know much about football but bring their kids for a night out etc.

We know the club needs to answer questions, but who’s pressing this home? Who’s asking for answers and for accountability?

[Larry_LCFC]

First 76 minutes was a complete shit show. Slow, sloppy, passive and zero creativity.

 

Subs were 30 minutes too late as usual. Last 14 minutes we actually looked like we wanted to win but too little too late......as usual. Just ended up panicking.

 

We are playing the worst football in years under a manager that is terrified of trying anything other than his defensive, possession football. Problem is, we have forgotten how to keep possession. Or pass forwards. Or shoot.

 

We are going nowhere other than down under BR. Rapidly falling out of love with our club. No enjoyment whatsoever in going to the KP at the minute.

[splinterdream]

Watched the darts tonight, thought I could get game on catch up but was mistaken, looked at the score, oh dear. We’re in big trouble.

 

you have say the club should have found a way to bring in players in the summer, I can’t believe it was impossible.

[Tuna]

Listened on RL sounded like we were really unlucky with injuries and missed chances.

Still, when Fulham scored you kind of expected that would be it and they'd win, it's not good enough and sums the football club up right now.

[glen parva fox]

Just about done with this boring football

[Unabomber]

For the first time in going with my dad for the last 15 years when we were walking out he said he didn’t want to go again. Man that killed me inside as it’s not just the football it’s the day out. The fact that Rodgers has got it this bad is so annoying. 

[The Horse's Mouth]

Haven’t watched us in ages and genuinely didn’t think we played that bad, but it’s the same issues that have been present for about 2 years now. Just completely toothless when it comes to putting it away.

[Hammo]

There is a horrible lethargy about the club right now. The players really don’t seem to care. The manager is steadfastly inflexible. The powers that be have gone silent except for telling fans not to steal their stupid ‘honesty flags’. And the fans themselves have nothing to get excited about. Something drastic needs to happen to arrest this slide into oblivion.

 

Tielemans was a class apart tonight. No one else comes out with any credit. Barnes was worse than useless for the second game running. Ndidi and Albrighton were not far behind. And Vardy is a spent force.

 

Maddison can’t come back quickly enough.

[LcFc_Smiv]

3 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

For the first time in going with my dad for the last 15 years when we were walking out he said he didn’t want to go again. Man that killed me inside as it’s not just the football it’s the day out. The fact that Rodgers has got it this bad is so annoying. 

My dad has stopped going since just before Forest. Kills me that he’s just lost interest, I’d always thought him to be overly critical of Rodgers and it was over the top but after tonight me and my brother are in the same boat. 

[kingkisnorbo]

Just remembered we have Forest next as well. Ouch. 

[Guest Col city fan]

Shows very well just how fired up Youri was tonight. Some people have said he didn’t try in the first half, completely missing the beautiful set up he made for Perez to, ridiculously, blaze it over the bar.

Gotta love Tielemans, continuing to try to hard playing alongside this guff.