What a chaotic half. The front 3 have been abysmal. Please someone try and tell me how Lucas and Morata won't improve this frontline. They are past their use by date. Time to unleash our best attackers

Danilo even my grandmother would be a better RB than him. All i see him do is wave hus arms in the air and subsequently lose the ball when he gets it which Alaves capitalise on. We defended alot better when Nacho came on but that's probably because of the good partnership between he and Varane. They know each other's moves. So when Varane gets sucked up Nacho stays back preventing any gaps Alaves can exploit

I won't expect HT subs but I expect certain players or should I say player to be taken off soon after the break. His pressing has been pathetic and he has been losing the ball nonstop. When need someone else in there somebody who can actually make himself count

Alaves starting this game as PTB, but they finished it as the better team. Wonder why that is

Navas and Varane are not communicating well this half. First the goal then the near corner that Navas failed to shout for Varane to let go. Need that communication lads

FT 4-1

Our passing under pressure Look at that 4th goal again, there are about 5 Alaves players pressing our guys, it all starts with calm Nacho who plays it to Kroos, who plays it to Marcelo, then Morata, then Marcelo, the Kroos and bam Kroos gets it to the other side and Danilo has a free path to run the ball all the way up. That kept happening over and over. We deal so well with pressing. For those of you wondering what ZZ has given this team, it is the composure undet pressure. We always pass it out, very rarely we hoof the ball. We were never this good under Carlo

The last 25 minutes we were playing some breathtaking football, and we were doing what we always do....cross yet it looked so exquisite. I thank God every day Bayern were stupid enough to give us Kroos in his prime. Dude is wondeful, you could put 5 guys on him and he will still find a way to get the ball to the other side through them, over them, under them, it doesn't matter he always gets it to them

Nacho imagine if this guy was a starter and not rotting away on our bench. How very fitting that Lopetegui was there to witness this performance of his. Hopefully ZZ trusts him more by playing him whenever somebody is injured

Danilo, i have no comment on other than to say we are fecking screwed if Carvajal gets a long term injury. He is SO bad

Morata, well I'll let you guys do the talking

guest7 wrote:Kovacic MOTM, great defensive shift from him

I know CR deserves it too but Kovacic had his best defensive game today

Tbh Kroos, Isco and Nacho deserve it just as much. All of them were Motm worthy with Marcelo not too far behind

I think his decision making has improved ten fold since last season. I mean compare his braindead decision to scissorkick that Valencia player to get his red card or play the ball right to a Las Palmas for their goalto how he is playing right now. Imo he more or less always makes the right choice pass nowadays. Even his throughballs are inch perfect. He has come a long way that's for sure