sunderland played us off the park in the 1st half. we have a period in the second half where we looked like the top team but apart from that we were second best.
lucky to get three points. dont really see the point in playing with three CB
Agreed.
One week I watch us and think BR is instilling a Barcelona-esque tiki-taka philosophy. The next we look like a mid-table club with Suarez, Coutinho and Sturridge. The reality is we're somewhere in between, but it's winding me up a treat.
I would prefer us to play to a system - the way BR talks about the game, playing a high-lined 4-3-3 and giving Alberto and Sterling much more game time, and [oops] the opposition. But I think again this season BR has tried the way he wants to play in the first few games (we were outstanding against Stoke and in the first halves of Villa and Swansea) and now bottled it after a couple of poor performances/half performances.
The reality is we don't currently have either (a) the players or (b) the confidence to play a possession-based game for 90 minutes (especially when we have a slim lead). Personally I think we have the players, but we're lacking the confidence in them. As such, we're putting out more defensive line-ups and playing on the counter like we did for most of last season.
I am not happy with it. But we are quite good at it to be fair - and we do have Suarez, Coutinho and Sturridge who can create/score out of nothing.
