• sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Being good at set pieces doesn’t even really help us if we’re also vulnerable against them. And we’ve let in a lot of goals from them recently.

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      19 days ago

      With defenders like Saliba yeah, we gotta do better. At least to have a clean sheet against relegation and lower mid table clubs.

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        19 days ago

        At the same time, everything in football works this way. We did have the best set piece attack and defense (I believe) in the league for a long time. That’s not an accident. It’s also not an accident that teams have figured us out - they were always going to eventually. If we can rework things and improve, it’s nbd - but it’s come at the worst time, when we’re also dealing with an injury crisis.