Having this so close to Wolves as two awful displays has made for grim watching.

3 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

There's been some outstanding performances this season, especially at Anfield. . Now injuries, covid and the schedule are hurting us, 

I can't get too critical of our team,  and anyway closing the gap was the main aim of this season wasn't it ?. Can't remember now,, so we are still on course with that hopefully.

a win on Sunday , and I'm a happy fan !

The superb Leicester-Juve back to back wins were on 20th and 23rd Nov, with Chilwell and Kanté getting injured v Juve. We've played (it seems) about 20 games since then without playing well once.

As you say, it's been the perfect storm of injuries, fixture congestion and covid that have really wrecked our form, when we were set fair for a proper run at the title.

5 hours ago, hephzibah said:

 but if Brighton played better than us in the midfield, it is because they know Jorginho cannot handle them in the midfield.

 

The irony of this statement is that we conceded once Kante came in, so much for him being our saviour when he got nuttmegged for the pass that resulted in a perfect cross and the equalizer. They were shooting from distance when Jorginho was in the middle and they could have done it the whole day without scoring.

21 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

The irony of this statement is that we conceded once Kante came in, so much for him being our saviour when he got nuttmegged for the pass that resulted in a perfect cross and the equalizer. They were shooting from distance when Jorginho was in the middle and they could have done it the whole day without scoring.

Actually I'm not a fan of Jorginho. And the midfield is so big that only Kante cannot protect the whole midfield alone, so if another person joins him to do the defensive work in the midfield, it will help him.

2 minutes ago, hephzibah said:

Actually I'm not a fan of Jorginho. And the midfield is so big that only Kante cannot protect the whole midfield alone, so if another person joins him to do the defensive work in the midfield, it will help him.

I only addressed what you said there, it's not like they stopped attacking when Kante came on but there the midfield was small enough for him to get nutmegged so you should consider your bias.

11 hours ago, Gol15 said:

I only addressed what you said there, it's not like they stopped attacking when Kante came on but there the midfield was small enough for him to get nutmegged so you should consider your bias.

Kante came on arnd 70th minute and actually gave us control that resulted in the opportunity that CHO fluffed.. they were bound to get one chance in the last 10 minutes and they scored ftom

it - both chalobah and rudiger messed it up .. .mbetween them they should have sandwiched the attacker ..

13 hours ago, Gol15 said:

I only addressed what you said there, it's not like they stopped attacking when Kante came on but there the midfield was small enough for him to get nutmegged so you should consider your bias.

Understand what I said, I said we need to have a player like Reece James together with Kante in the midfield.

4 hours ago, Jangz said:

Kante came on arnd 70th minute and actually gave us control that resulted in the opportunity that CHO fluffed.. they were bound to get one chance in the last 10 minutes and they scored ftom

it - both chalobah and rudiger messed it up .. .mbetween them they should have sandwiched the attacker ..

Fact is Kante "didn't protect the defense" by getting nutmegged which is that level of argument that we're having, I'm just playing along by those rules now. What opportunity did Kante made for CHO?

4 hours ago, Gol15 said:

Fact is Kante "didn't protect the defense" by getting nutmegged which is that level of argument that we're having, I'm just playing along by those rules now. What opportunity did Kante made for CHO?

Being nutmegged is not a special thing in football. If you have played football before, you will know that when you want to tackle someone, your legs will be open, and you can get nutmegged. So how is that special?

Just now, hephzibah said:

Being nutmegged is not a special thing in football. If you have played football before, you will know that when you want to tackle someone, your legs will be open, and you can get nutmegged. So how is that special?

You're complaining about Jorginho but ignoring that we conceded with Kante being involved.

40 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

You're complaining about Jorginho but ignoring that we conceded with Kante being involved.

The complain I made about Jorginho, is it new? Don't you know about it? Don't you know about Jorginho's defensive frailties?

Our front 3 are not up to the challenge today. Not sure where our goal can come from

 

Havertz should be off at half time. 

As proverb says: "Even a stick shoots once a year"