Blue72

When you compare us with the other teams in contention for top 5 we are not good enough. I would say Conference or Europa League is about our level under Clearlake. Unless they change their strategy we should expect this to be the new norm. If Clearlake genuinely think they can make Champions League with their transfer policy and inexperienced coaches they are more delusional than I thought.

Oh yes, we had some chances, so did they!! They were dreadful and we didn’t turn up. This is on the coach, but he will say, in good English mind you, the correct things in his press conference and all the LR cultists will tell us how good he is.

You can blame the manager if you want but I saw enough chances being made and wasted to know he coached a win.
We were still being overrun even with James on, Josh coming on made sense to counter the height they brought on. Neto again didn't do anything, we were being pushed back even with him on the pitch. Stacking the midfield with Enzo Santos and Caicedo with 5 CBs was a perfectly fine plan for the last 5 mins of the game. We didn't concede due to this. The goal we conceded would happen regardless of who we had on.

To sum it up, it was a performance you have seen countless times already. Lack of focus, loose passing, poor movement, slow, not testing the keeper, just the whole package of sh*t we see all too often these days.

Rosenior was complaining that he’s not had any time to work with the players. So as soon as they get a free week he packs everyone off to Dubai and they come back and put in a half-arsed performance like that.
And when the game spins out of control thanks to the stupidity of Fofana, the manager has his own brain fart and chucks on anyone who looks remotely like a centre half. And then they all decide to stand still at every corner.
Words fail me. I thought Leeds was bad. But that was on another level.

He's been really really sh*t all season and gets away with playing 90+ minutes in every game. Why is nobody questioning this? I want Rosenior to answer why this guy never gets dropped. We move him around the midfield, even move him out wide and he's still useless. Him ghosting in to score the odd goal is masking his sh*t performances.
I'm 100% certain it's because he is BlueCo's boy, but I don't give a sh*t, drop him. If you don't have it in you to drop him, then f**k off out of the club, because you don't have the best interests of the club at heart. Nobody can watch Enzo and think he should be starting every game.

He panicked we all saw it. Absolute maresca like panic. Put all those defenders on and they don’t mark no one. And then he nearly gets in again ffs. Just invites pressure guts a coward

Same reaction to the red card as Maresca against Man Utd, but the fact that we were playing Burnley at home makes it even worse. So cowardly

What a sh*tshow this week has been from Rosenior. Taking the players on holiday at such a crucial stage, beyond stupid. The players were flat all game. The subs were beyond terrible. Bringing Tosin on is like going a man down, then you bring on Delap too who is also beyond sh*t. Taking off Neto and James is f**king criminal though. The strongest player in the squad and the quickest when you're down to 10 men, and you take them off? That's not just amateur management, that is negligence.
I'm sick of that useless twat Enzo stinking up every game too. I've never seen a player receive more favouritism in my life.

True. Looked far better that day than either league cup loss. Should have won that one.

We drew with Arsenal at home when we had 10 men and Maresca was manager.
Lost 2-3 at home to Arsenal at home when we had 11 men and Rosenior was the manager.

Horrible watch and although there was a plan, I don't really understand the thinking behind it.
Playing without any real threat with an out of form cf on the right wing just felt senseless.
Ambition has been sorely lacking of late and if that was the team LR really thought would do the job tonight we shouldn't expect much lookng forward.
If the plan was to only try to score in the last 15 minutes then I fear the coach had never watched Arsenal play.
We had ninety minutes to get level and only used 10 of them.
Painful.

Surprised to see a quite a few positive posts.
The bar must be so low if that was anywhere near acceptable.
We were very lucky to get to this leg at 3-2, couldve easily been 4-1.
Tonight, Arsenal did not have to score (still did in the end),but we did and didnt create anything because we were too scared to attack for 60 minutes of the game.

Pushed them all the way ??????
We did f**k all for 85 minutes, and even those last 5 we refused to put them under pressure in the box.
That was as gutless and negative for a semi that I think it could possibly have been, and I know that cowardly c**t is going to come out and say it all went well until they pinched one.

Also our league challenge is already over which is why cups like this at least game a chance to win something. In the league we are scrapping with the also rans in the hope that we can grab 4th or 5th.

Well if you think that is pushing Arsenal all of the way, then delusional is the only way to summarise it. United beat them in the league at this ground a week ago, that was pushing Arsenal. We just played our usual slow sh*te we always play. It was cowardly tactics and too afraid to force the situation.

It was all over in both legs with Rosenior

Awful.
We were like a plucky little lower league team hoping to hang in there with the big boys .
That's how far our club has fallen, fans actually happy that we were " comfortable" and not getting slapped around by Arsenal .
Too passive, too slow, too scared to take a risk in a game that we needed to win .. Arsenal watching us playing keep ball in front of them.
What a f**king mess.

Cowardly display from manager and team Its a semi final

I'm gobsmacked that there is any positivity for that performance.
Merse has just summed it perfectly, we've just gone out of a semi final with a whimper.. that piss poor excuse of a manager should be ashamed of HIMSELF sending them out to play like that for so long.
That was a weak pathetic effort by a weak group.

Delusional

No, and some fans will think that was good tactics. We never even tested them, it was an easy game of football.

What gutless performance deserved nothing from the game

Good performance. Not great. Could have come off. We were the better team over the two nights. Sanchez f*ck ups cost us in the first game.
didn’t really have enough of a go tonight though.

I am so f**king tired of this abysmal football we play. We literally just played an entire 90 minutes of football in 1st gear. These w**kers think we shouldn't boo this sh*te? We did f**k ALL and they can f**k off.