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One thing that today’s match against City told me is that against the better teams with fast wingers we have a problem at Left Back. TAA is not good enough defensively and Milner is too slow.

Will Gomez be able to fill the gap or does another solution need to be found?

I take it you mean RB? Robertson and Kostas are very good at LB, so we have decent cover there at last.

I think TAA is very good at RB, but because he is so creative and pushes on, he can be caught of position, Milner is not good enough cover, City targeted him today and he was caught out running back quite a few times, though I though Henderson did not give him much cover either, the whole MF didn't look right and felt second best.

We need better RB cover, Neco Williams was on the bench, so not sure why he was not tried? especially in the Porto game as when we went 3-0 up he could have been given a run out to see how he does.

Sorry yes Right Back.

That young lad that played vs Norwich looked defensively solid too despite giving away a penalty. He could end up being better than Neco. I also don't want to see Gomez at RB, he seems to get injured whenever he gets a run there.

milner got roasted but he is ancient.

bigger worry for me is midfield ...fabino was dreadful , really soft , we miss gini. debryne was free all day long

Yes Fabinho was below his usual standard and didn’t command the midfield.
Silva ran rings around him.

Midfield is our problem and the reason for our defensive lapses

Agree, Curtis was invisible, the game looked too fast for him and Fab couldn't step his authority neither, however, the biggest issue was Right Back and problem is that I am not sure TAA could have done the job, but he would have been better than Milner. Anyway, we cannot compete with Chelsea and City squads.

Second game in EPL we can´t keep a lead and we also conceded against Porto. Seems a problem controlling games now a days. Curtis is not good enough yet when we play against great opposition.

Just noticed this comment and it stood out at me. I thought we did OK in general, we are playing City after all, lucky to get a draw though.

However our midfield off the ball seemed really poor. The amount of times Silva just ran through 4-5 players without a proper challenge was really bad, I don't mean take him out but when they were putting in a challenge it looked like it was going through the motions rather than believing they were going to win the ball, annoyed me no end.