Match Thread Plymouth Argyle (A) FAC 3pm 9th Feb

[Beamrider]

Of course, it could all just be 4D chess from Slot to keep Amorim and Pep in their jobs thanks to long cup runs, so they are both stuck in a form of purgatory watching their sides get turned over at home every week (Amorim) or having the shit get kicked out of them by some non-league cloggers as they struggle to get back into the Football League following a well-deserved quadruple relegation (Pep).

 

[Holle]

But that doesn't explain how they still did nothing and were gifted a pen.

Our front 3 couldn't turn a page, let alone turn a man.

People are overegging how weak our team was.

Kelleher - starter for most sides
Tsimi - starter for a lot of sides
Quansah - regular for league leaders
Gomez - starter for most sides
Endo - solid player and starts for most
Elliott - usually much fucking better and highly regarded
Diaz, Jota and chiesa - all first team regulars for the current leaders of the league

I'm not fucking having this "oh it was a weak side" bollocks. There was more than enough fucking quality there to beat fucking Plymouth

Those players didn't perform.

Every single senior player on the pitch today is a fucking passenger anyway. You cannot rely on these if you need a result.

 

[localny]

Honestly I think running our regulars into the ground would have been a worse choice.

These lads never play together. We’ve seen this movie against psv and in the earlier rounds of the Carabao too v Southampton.

This was a donation to the world footballing romance bank. Plymouth and other clubs will dine out on this for years. It was good of us to “give back” to the game.

 

[rurikbird]

Why was McConnell so good against PSV and so bad today? His own inconsistency or was he set up for failure by the system?

 

[mark1975]

Every single senior player on the pitch today is a fucking passenger anyway. You cannot rely on these if you need a result.

Endo isn't and wasn't, nor was Kelleher. Shit performance, but don't tar these two with the same brush as much more expensive and higher profile gobshites like Diaz. As said, a few have just put nails in the coffins of their Liverpool careers, but you can't fault these two.

 

[Modo]

Hate to repeat myself but the midfield killed us today. We never controlled the midfield which then led to our attack being completely overwhelmed.
Hence why I wanted Macca to start this game.

 

[MomoWASright]

Hate to repeat myself but the midfield killed us today. We never controlled the midfield which then led to our attack being completely overwhelmed.
Hence why I wanted Macca to start this game.

Jones should’ve been the sub for Gomez. Great in hindsight but subbing off a sub is basically a career killer which is what we witnessed today.

 

[Modo]

Jones should’ve been the sub for Gomez. Great in hindsight but subbing off a sub is basically a career killer which is what we witnessed today.

Exactly and I wonder why Slot kept him on the bench. Feels like Slot didn't really care in the end.

 

[Modo]

Update:

Slot just said that Jones didn't feel ready for the game.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Well that was god awful. The players selected bar Endo and Quansah should hang their heads today.

Fucking disaster to lose Gomez. One CB injury away in the next 15 days to being stretched more than we needed to be.

At least he took Jota off early.

All this talk about being annoyed we’ll win a treble but not the treble. Ffs ha ha.

Win the fucking league and it’ll be the best season we’ve had in 5 years and the 3rd best 20 years!!!

We were never winning all four trophies.

 

[localny]

That Southampton EFL game was a pre cursor to this. We were terrible, and lucky to win. We've seen this kind of performance before by the B squad.

 

[Modo]

Well that was god awful. The players selected bar Endo and Quansah should hang their heads today.

Fucking disaster to lose Gomez. One CB injury away in the next 15 days to being stretched more than we needed to be.

At least he took Jota off early.

All this talk about being annoyed we’ll win a treble but not the treble. Ffs ha ha.

Win the fucking league and it’ll be the best season we’ve had in 5 years and the 3rd best 20 years!!!

We were never winning all four trophies.

Jota played the entire game

 

[Buddha]

Jones should’ve been the sub for Gomez. Great in hindsight but subbing off a sub is basically a career killer which is what we witnessed today.

Mabaya’s not got a career path here anyway. 20 years old and looked clumsy, terrified and like he’d struggle with a League One loan.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Jota played the entire game

Fuck me I thought he took him off.

 

[darkstarexodus]

Fuck me I thought he took him off.

It just looked it based on his play

 

[MomoWASright]

Update:

Slot just said that Jones didn't feel ready for the game.

Fucking ketwigged shit bag.

 

[mark1975]

We got beat by PSV and bounced back. Wednesday will be tough, but we have to focus and rely on our experienced winners to do it.

 

[Dirty Sanchez]

Yeh then why the fuck was Jones even on the bench?

 

[Modo]

Slot couldn't be arsed with this game, otherwise he would have had our regular starters on the bench.

 

[Dreambeliever]

We got beat by PSV and bounced back. Wednesday will be tough, but we have to focus and rely on our experienced winners to do it.

This result will have fuck all to do with the rest of the season.

We will field a completely different 10/11 Wednesday.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Slot couldn't be arsed with this game, otherwise he would have had our regular starters on the bench.

Shock horror Slot sees the next 5 league fixtures as a bigger priority than a domestic cup run.

He’ll be livid with the performance but he’s rightly prioritised the league.

Something Klopp couldn’t do and is another tick from me.

A crucial rest to our best 10/11 players right before the league deciding run of games.

Well done Slot, poor from the players he intrusted today.

 

[Pesam]

You don’t buy 27 year old Italian international footballers for £10m unless he’s a crock. The Italians sold us a dud. Great player before the ACL injury but now he’s a liability……surely Slot can see it.

 

[Dreambeliever]

You don’t buy 27 year old Italian international footballers for £10m unless he’s a crock. The Italians sold us a dud. Great player before the ACL injury but now he’s a liability……surely Slot can see it.

He was shite today. He’s been promising prior. All our attacking players were shite today.

I still have hope he can positively influence the business end of the season and deserve a winners medal or two.

 

[rubans]

The Chiesa buy is on Hughes, there was an interview by Chiesa where he said Hughes went out of his way to get him onboard and even spoke Italian well, blah blah...
I guess for 10m ain't going to complain but yeah, don't quiet get the belief in a player who has been barely fit or able to play RW to the ability we need in PL or CL or even FA Cup against cold evening at Plymouth.

 

[Pesam]

He was shite today. He’s been promising prior. All our attacking players were shite today.

I still have hope he can positively influence the business end of the season and deserve a winners medal or two.

I think you want Chiesa to be a hit so badly that you’re seeing things that aren’t there Dreamy…………..i still haven’t seen him being “promising”, he has been slow and lethargic every time I’ve seen him.

 

[binomial]

Jones and Gomez are 2 more players that need to be shown the door in the summer. What’s the point in them being here if they cant make themselves available for a game like today.

 

[binomial]

Update:

Slot just said that Jones didn't feel ready for the game.

Why is he on the bench then.

 

[rubans]

Why is he on the bench then.

Good question, really crappy excuse from Slot. As if he had no other midfielders to stick on the bench.

 

[Dreambeliever]

I think you want Chiesa to be a hit so badly that you’re seeing things that aren’t there Dreamy…………..i still haven’t seen him being “promising”, he has been slow and lethargic every time I’ve seen him.

He’s been direct and while not lightening he hasn’t been slow, with a powerful shot on him and 100% effort in the last handful of performances I’ve seen.

Of course it’s more likely he won’t turn it around but I am not writing him off just yet.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Jones and Gomez are 2 more players that need to be shown the door in the summer. What’s the point in them being here if they cant make themselves available for a game like today.

Ha ha ha. Jesus Christ.