Goodison Horror Show Highlights

Pep HAS to play these goals to his players over and over again. Say nothing. Just garage them in a room and put it on loop.

Can any of them, the one's who jogged along in the style of the Kolarov textbook alongside the marauding forwards, or the keeper whose positioning and attempts to save were absolutely brutal deny ANY culpability?

Each and everyone of them should give their week's wages to Manchester hospitals.

Harrowing viewing.

For the record, no Pellegrini or Mancini side ever got thumped 4-0 in the Premier League.
 
Cut to ribbons. Some woeful performances in those "lowlights" - careless, lazy, lacking in commitment and any effort especially to recover and pressure opponents. I won't name names. Shameful.

The blank canvas upon which Pep has been provided to paint his latest masterpiece (working title "Possession Without Purpose") is currently resembling something that Jackson Pollock would be proud of - a confused, jumbled mess.
 
They are ALL at fault for me.

Very very worried for Bravo now. He is being destroyed now. This is cruel from a purely human perspective.

Imagine you have that ball bearing down on him. He comes off that line and cannot make himself big, showing so much of the goal. He is visibly shrinking in my eyes.

Worse still we have NO leadership out there. Nobody geeing him up. Nobody helping.

What the hell is goalkeeping coach Xabier Mancisidor doing to bring him up to what's required in this league?

Bravo looks like a seal alone on a wobbly block of ice with Killer Whales going at him. I can hardly bear to watch.




 
I don't see anything wrong at all with Bravo's positioning or his attempts at saves today.

What I will say is though that his lack of bollocking those in front of him is a problem. He should be tearing them a new one but doesn't seem to have the character to do it, which is odd when you consider he's Chile's captain.

We offer up so many clear cut chances it's criminal.
 
We are so exposed at the back that it isn't like shooting practice and the professionals on the other side are making hay.

Pep's desire to encourage fluidity of movement and interchange of position is creating an defensive mess - a loose collection of players who are not holding any kind of shape and thus creating huge gaps and holes which opponents are ruthlessly exploiting.

The 'Great Premier League Footballing Experiment' is currently failing IMO and being horribly and painfully exposed
 
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