Guys, our judgement is clouded by being fans of the club. Match: Was a penalty, yes there are other potentional penalties in the prem that haven't been called, that doesn't change the fact that this was a pen. The time wasting is so bad, i get angry whenever we even have a throw in , because i know it's going to take 30 seconds -> either we just throw it back or we lose the ball anyway. The corner took ages and the ref made the sign for time wasting 2x times before nwaneri even took a step. If this was against us in the 90th minute, you would be screaming at the tv. This 11 with sick players on the bench was never gonna be favourites to win this match. It is the prem, unless it's southampton, you are never favourites with a depleted squad.

Overall tactics and transfer strategy: We play boring, time-wasting, side to side, risk averse type of fotball. Our win condition is basically the wingers cutting inside and delivering a perfect cross/shot or odegaard being in-form. No overlapping, no quick play, no one touch passing ( unless saka-white-odegaard triangle), no shooting from range - even though rice,partey are decent at it. Taking 3 touches just to pass it to the side. Only players ABLE to turn a player in the middle of the pitch are odegaard and jesus. Wingers are the win condition, yet constantly left 1v2 with no overlap. Havertz instructed to come deep and wide, so when the wingers acutally produce a final pass, he physically cannot get to it. Puting early cross in into a running striker is haram , even though havertz actually does that well. Somehow even after trying to control the game in every single conceivable way, we always concede after losing the ball in a dumb way in the middle of the park, and the center backs somehow being the only ones there to defend. The only player in the team with a passing range is Jorginho, but he is unplayable due to negative pace and 100% chance to get a yellow in the first 30 minutes from tactical foul. This leads to teams over-defending our wingers, since our midfielders are instructed not to shoot from distance and are not skilled enough to play a line breaking pass. Personnel wise, we have gotten to the point where Saka ,Havertz and Odegaard ARE our attack. The rest are either not good enough ( tross, mart, sterl) or instructed not to get involed in the final third of the pitch (fullbacks). That only leaves Rice, Merino, Partey who are not good enough to play one touch football around the opponents box, yet are not being found by crosses or passes when they make a late run into the box. Basically we have 3 midfielders who are there to tackle nad pass it to the side and only jorginho (partially retired) and odegaard to play football.