I’ll be keeping this one short as I’m struggling with the lurgy and I don’t actually there’s much to say anyway. It wasn’t great but it was enough and that’s all I’m expecting in games like this. I was fine with it, so I was a little surprised to hear Slot going off on the performance afterwards.
We’ve played much worse than this and he’s been relaxed about it. So why was he so pissed off after this? I think it’s about standards and that he’s seen them slipping a little since the City game and he senses a defeat coming if we don’t get back at it. I think this was an over-reaction from him but it wasn’t out of emotion, it was about deliberately sending out a message.
The way he was talking up Girona was weird too, as I thought they were shite. In fact, if we were so bad and we still beat them, they must be shite. They’re 9th in La Liga and 30th in the CL table, but Slot was talking about them like they were Barcelona. So yeah, I think he’s sending a message to his players as he’s seeing signs of things creeping in that he doesn’t like. I like it, it’s keeping them on their toes and we’re going into a crucial part of the season now. If we avoid slip ups and get to the New Year with this lead intact then we’re in great shape, so I think Slot is just firing out a warning now just to get everyone refocused.
I can see why he didn’t like the first half because it was too end to end and Alisson had to do too much. The second though, I don’t think they really did anything and I never felt like we were going to concede.
The way we started the game I thought we were going to blow their doors off. The first ten was really good and we almost had the long awaited Joe Gomez goal when he met a corner from Robbo and powered a header goalwards. Unfortunately it was straight at the keeper. It’ll come eventually.
Then it got a bit ragged and they started creating chances. Alisson made a handful of saves, only one of which seemed particularly difficult, but then that’s the beauty of Alisson as a lot of things seem easy because he’s always where he should be.
They had too many chances, although I thought a couple of them would probably have been offside. He doesn’t know that though, he has to make saves and he did.
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