One thing we have been consistently good at is bottling. Although I did not expect us to beat City, not because they are particularly brilliant as Pool and Utd showed, but because Poch doesn’t learn very quickly. Having lost, and Chelsea winning, the potential for unforced squeaky bum time raises its ugly head.
Personally, I would like to see us adopt Pool’s model with fast FB’s, an intelligent donkey and two fast goal-scoring runners up front. In our case we only have one fast FB (KWP) but it would be a start, we have Kane for the donkey role and Son and Moura for the fast running goal-scorers. I would also like to see Foyth have a chance in CM in place of Dier as he reads the game well, is good on the ball and his passing is usually positive, plus he can tackle.
I don’t know whether any of that makes sense but I do know that if we fail to make top 4 from here Poch will have lost a lot of his sparkle.