At least back in the Cesc, Rosicky, Hleb, Nasri era we could win convincingly in certain games, but now days we let any half
decent team dominate us, If they have any okay quality up front they beat us.
Not exact matches
We miss a real CM to run games for us, we need a DM, we get
dominated by virtually any half
decent team.
Could have been easier could have been harder... Not the point... We don't have a best 11 that can
dominate decent opposition let alone top
teams... So quarters if lucky 3rd place in group if injuries mount....
Our
team can
dominate all it likes but it can not defend a single
decent counter attack.
I keep saying it and will continue saying it, We have lost the one thing that we could hide behind (Beautiful Football), since that summer that Cesc and Nasri left they left with our beautiful possession and
dominating football, all of a sudden we struggle to create chances, we come up against any half
decent team and they will
dominate us, this never happened but since 2011 - 12 our football stinks with no direction, slow, clueless boring, players not closing down but instead just jog around waiting for the other
team to lose possession..
We can't keep possession, we get
dominated by any half
decent team (Swansea, Southampton, Everton, Spuds, etc..)
Any half a
decent team who choose to press us high up the field easily
dominate us....
They are Very easily
dominated by any half
decent team with athletic, strong and direct players.
Reports of the death of tiki - taka are doubtless exaggerated; the basic precept, that possession can be used to
dominate a
team in both attack and defence simultaneously, still stands up as a
decent way to win a football match.
It was therefore not surprising that the Light Blues
dominated the lowest category at Varsity, taking the first three places and having a
decent head start in the
team match.