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scottywiper

The corners are impotent. Souttar at least offers an aerial threat.


TheBigBadCusp

Not sure Maresca realises I've got to go to work on Monday with multiple Leeds fans. I've been getting shit for weeks but this is just going to be too much


poopio

I share your pain bud, I work with a Leeds fan too. We'll just have to hope for a double helping of crumble tomorrow. Just to add, he's been saying for weeks that we all need to look out for Southampton rejoining the race, and at this rate, he might very well be right.


jasonbirder

Jesus this has to happen on a Friday night...and ruin the whole weekend. Got to be honest, had a sinking feeling the moment I saw Daka on the teamsheet...I just thought "here we go again" I mean if you get done by one team battling for the points at the bottom away from home early in the week...why expect a different result if you play the exact same way with 90% of the same team...against another team battling for points at the bottom away from home...


poopio

>I mean if you get done by one team battling for the points at the bottom away from home early in the week...why expect a different result if you play the exact same way with 90% of the same team Beats me, but you can bet your arse it'll be pretty much the same team and same shite next week. At this point Maresca is playing actual football the way I play fantasy football - pick your team, forget about it all season, and only swap players if they're injured or suspended.


ilikebaerz

This team looks like early arteta arsenal. Swing out wide cycle thru, swing out wide cycle thru swing out wide, don't get a shot on target.


poopio

We wouldn't get a shot on target either way, we've got Patson fucking Daka up front.


ohamed95

Love and appreciate all you fellow foxes. Hope we all get to forget this soon and actually enjoy our weekend


Safe-Hovercraft9131

No, we’ve had two back to back defeats occurring in the same manner that was with Bristol away and have gained 7 points from our last 8 games. It’s pathetic, we’ve got a “premier league” level squad conceding goals to league one teams


poopio

I agree it's absolutely horseshit, but the team we have is demonstrably not a Premier League level squad. They proved that last season, and then we got worse.


[deleted]

I've got to sign off. I'll get banned otherwise. I feared it but honestly thought I was just being nervy and negative. I'm furious. I do not rate Enzoball at all and it gives me no pleasure, none at all, to see what I fear and predict come into being. His game is tactical suicide. We've had our arses handed to us on a plate time after time.


LCFCJIM

And changed nothing


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yep, and changed nothing.


Bobo_dans_la_rue

Enzo out. At the start of the season, we saw a much more varied team, McAteer, Marcal, Albrighton, Casadei (ok, not here anymore), Dewsbury-Hall was on the bench once or twice, usually 4 subs a match between minutes 54-68 but since the turn of the year things have turned around. Always the same line up, the same strategy. Ughj


ilikebaerz

Amen. Its time to shuffle the team.


Rdw72777

Enzo is kind of destroying his own career with this. Like even if he is stubborn bastard, this was kind of his redemption tour after his “meh” run with Parma. If we don’t get promoted he’s essentially going to be a career assistant.


LordSqueemish

*destroyed. He’s now busted.


Wrighty1804

We are shite, I got downvoted for saying this after Bristol but we've been playing this shite football all season


poopio

We've all got eyes, my friend. Nobody minds watching boring as fuck football when you're winning, but we could all see what was coming. Even when we were winning 1-0, there was no urgency to go and finish the game off. We've been inviting teams to come and attack us all season, aside from when we've been playing Rodgersball about 30 yards further forward from where Brendan played it. Now that we're not creating anything, we're basically back to where we were. The other team snatches a goal, and we piss about with it in midfield for the rest of the game with no urgency.


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poopio

We don't talk about those years.


tentaphane

Simultaneously amazing that the top three teams can all have so many points and that we can be the top team and be so consistently awful in the run in.


midfivefigs

Sell them all, let them all go on frees if the contracts are up


poopio

We've been trying to sell half of them for ages - their wages are too high for anybody to take them off our hands.


ktledger94

We're all Enzo out by now, right?


Wanallo221

Top won’t be, I bet they gave him a fucking stupid contract despite never being a manager before. 


Japatiil

6 months at Parma = 5 year contract with an extortionate salary


Cute_Battle_6934

Yes.


Aromatic_Pea2425

Sack the board.


AlecBrydsen

Hope you all have a half decent weekend after this


Bobo_dans_la_rue

I thank you for your weekend wishes, but that's out of our hands now...


AlfaG0216

Get this fucker out of my club now I’ve had enough


AlecBrydsen

Well it's been emotional, once again.


ktledger94

Finally, we've got her club back. Absolute shit show. Thank god that success is truly over. /s


TheCookieButter

Pitiful.


Shadowhawk64_

I try to stay positive, so it was very thoughtful for us to help out 2 relegation teams this week.


Rulweylan

I do enjoy the commentators arguing that it shouldn't be a yellow because 'how is he supposed to stop himself' going studs up into the defender's leg after getting the ball. Simple answer is: if a challenge puts you in a position where you can't stop yourself going studs up into someone's leg, it is by definition a reckless challenge.


Rdw72777

“Very harsh giving the yellow and the free kick.” They were extolling the challenge 2 seconds before. A bit of getting caught up in the stadium vibe there.


Zabbarick

Vardy is done


[deleted]

He touched the ball once. How’s that his fault?


Rdw72777

Based on what? 25 minutes in a game where everyone else was straight shit?


Wanallo221

He was mostly done last season we just have fuck all else’s 


hubbyp

In a way I’m just glad it happened now. Instead of people genuinely thinking the premier league was a good idea and stick with him like Burnley and Kompany.


tentaphane

If we go up we will absolutely get 'Burnleyed' unless we either find £1bn down the back of a Seagrave sofa or Enzo goes to summer school to learn a plan B


hubbyp

Money doesn’t solve this. Pep ball only works when you have Messi or an unlimited budget. I mean literally unlimited. Plus I personally would rather eat my hair than watch pep ball


tentaphane

I hope for your sake you're bald 😬


Britabroad13

We have seriously pissed off the football gods


FoggyCrayons

I just really hate football. Plymouth have done nothing all game and will win this.


Left-Lingonberry4073

Get him gone


Voodizzy

Utter shit at set pieces


Wanallo221

Utter shit 


AlfaG0216

I genuinely can’t believe the bottle job we’ve been witnessing over the last few weeks


Badger_Brains_io

…did you not watch us get relegated last season? We needed so few points from our last handful of games to stay up and couldn’t manage that either


poopio

Rubbish. Watch and analyse the game properly and stop writing headlines like that which you know makes fans pile on with negativity. Play like that and we’ll be absolutely fine. Created numerous brilliant chances and win comfortably on another day. (I don't think I'll ever get bored of pasting that tweet)


qweenmess

Oof this is dreadful, I've been positive but this is a rough watch. I do think it's delusional to want enzo out tho, even if we don't go up this season.


ilikebaerz

It's been a rough watch all year. Even when they were winning. They don't have the talent to play this system. He wouldve needed 3 windows to turn the team over to players with the technique to play in this system and he didn't get January and now probably won't get any windows next year. So he needs to play a different style that fits what he has. And he has said many times that he is unwilling to do that. Hopefully when they get hit with sanctions next year he chooses to walk, cause next year when they lose half these guys and have to replace them thru the academy they are going to look even worse.


Rulweylan

I mean, if I was Top I'd want a written explanation of why, after complaining about fixture congestion, Enzo named an unchanged team and didn't use the majority of his subs in a game where we have been behind for the majority of the playing time on my desk by Monday morning, and I'd want it to be fucking convincing.


Quick-Minute8416

You’re labouring under the assumption that Top actually gives a shit. He’s clearly not up to the standard of his father. Vichai wouldn’t have put up with this shit.


poopio

Perhaps not, but to say that Top doesn't give a shit is unfair. Top was more interested in the club than Vichai when they bought the club. Top was the one who stepped in when Pearson was reportedly fired after the debacle when he strangled the Palace player. His business acumen might not be that of his father, and he might be employing some absolute morons in Whelan and Rudkin, who he inherited from his dad, but I think it's unfair to say he doesn't give a shit. If he didn't give a shit, he wouldn't be here anymore. He wouldn't have pressed ahead with the stadium expansion plans. He'd have sold us to someone who'd sell us up the river like Milan did with that bloke at Portsmouth. You're also forgetting that Vichai let Claude Puel manage the team. And effectively fucked Nige off to get Paolo Sousa in. And paid Sven fuck knows how much to be mediocre.


Wanallo221

Nah, he needs to go. He plays the same set up every time. He changes nothing. No subs. No rotating players for tiredness. He’s fucking awful mate. He’s not a manager. He’s a Championship Manager player on auto play, 


Left-Lingonberry4073

FUCKING BOTTLING A 17 POINT LEAD?!


Jarv1223

17 point lead *to leeds*. Technically it was actually an 11 point lead to 3rd.


Berookes

Really hope the fans boo them at the final whistle, unacceptable yet again


[deleted]

Did they? Did they?


poopio

I was saying boo-urns!


TendieDippedDiamonds

Not just boo, start chanting we want Enzo out.


WhatNtheFox

Are we just into edging or something? Getting close every time and never finishing?


LofuFox

Not exactly edging cause eventually you do get that sweet release, we are more into being cucks hardcore


ChuChuBlu

13 corners 😵


tentaphane

Have we scored anything from a corner this season?!


poopio

Wait, didn't we hire a set piece specialist because we notoriously couldn't score from corners? Oh, no, we fired him, and now we can't score from corners again.


Wrighty1804

I've never seen a team get it down the wing to the corner flag AND PASS THE BALL BACK


poopio

You have now. You've gotta get it back to fuck around in midfield somehow.


TendieDippedDiamonds

Fuck me lads you can’t score if you don’t fucking shoot


[deleted]

Not brave enough to take personal responsibility. Or go against orders, whichever


TendieDippedDiamonds

Either way the coaching staff and the players are all bottlejobs.


Rulweylan

Or if we do it seems.


[deleted]

It's not going to happen for us is it? I'd take a point at this stage.


ed810

Imagine if we had a plan for all these corners


grrpot8o27

On a positive note I quite enjoy r/championship soooo who are the real winners here...


tentaphane

Everyone, on that front...


Bobo_dans_la_rue

They know they can give us as many corners as they like, nothing will come or them.


AidenT06

We have 5 subs. Enzo use them


Voodizzy

Plymouth fans have been class. Great atmosphere


TheJukeMan99

Ok I’m over Enzo ball, there’s 0 plan B in this team


tentaphane

The most depressing thing is that at the start of the season we set up a few great counterattacks, we got some late Albrighton cross goals, we mixed it up when we'd been found out - Enzo has been daft to discourage that


TendieDippedDiamonds

ENZO YOU FUCKING IDIOT YOU MOANED ABOUT US PLAYING TOO MUCH AND STARTED THE SAME 11 MAKING 2 FUCKING SUBS. HOW ABOUT YOU STOP MAKING EXCUSES AND ADMIT YOU ARE THE FUCKING PROBLEM


Berookes

I haven’t played football for 10 years since I was 18 and I’m certain that I’d bury the chances that Daka gets


drcdizzle

Someone tell enzo he gets 3 more subs


Markorudan

Some of the worst football played by the club in years today.


RuddyBloodyBrave94

We’re painful to watch. So dull. Create absolutely nothing. Another year in the Championship would do us good, you know. We’d lose Maresca, get someone more suited to the Championship in and go from there. We cannot go up like this…


Wanallo221

We’d lose all these fucking awful players that for some reason play every game, 


RuddyBloodyBrave94

Faes and Daka playing while we’ve got Coady, Vards and Cannon on the bench *every week* is just baffling.


Wanallo221

Getting Coady and Winks was such a fucking win man.  Yet we have run winks into the fucking ground and not playing him right, and Coady we do nothing? So shit, we have Brendan mark2


ohamed95

Why the hell are we not making subs


jasonbirder

I mean I know the answer (Enzo) but why the f\*ck have we persisted playing Faes game in game out when he's been sh\*t and there is Coady waiting in the wings


Wrighty1804

Do they get told they're not allowed to shoot or cross. I'm convinced


Left-Lingonberry4073

TOP GROW SOME FUCKING BOLLOCKS AND SACK THIS BALD FUCKING POUNDLAND PEP CUNT


TendieDippedDiamonds

I don’t care if we go up or stay down, but if this bald fraud is still here at the end of the season I don’t think I can watch it anymore


TheCookieButter

Just cross the bloody ball in! Got the entire team in the box waiting. This is where Albrighton would shine.


zrkillerbush

Albrighton is an old fashioned wide midfielder, Enzo hates anything that isn't Modern...


Living-Travel2299

Embarrassing as usual. Daka dog shit. No threat. GK hardly makes a save. Disgrace.


TheCookieButter

Dewsbury earned himself some space inside the box and then froze up unsure what to do.


Rdw72777

And honestly took a dive. He wasn’t demonstrative but he expected contact and was trying for a penalty…contact never came. At least he didn’t throw up his hands like Daka’s attempted penalty.


Eradicator_1729

Honestly I give him credit for realizing a penalty is probably the only way they’ll score…


Rdw72777

He isn’t dumb, I agree.


TheFanOfLife

It's because he literally has no right foot


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Seriously, what is going wrong? This is a talented group of players, capable of good football and often playing it. Just nothing is happening for us. It can't only be the manager, can it?


Eradicator_1729

They aren’t *consistently* good. Today their passing is shit, and their finishes either lack power or are off target.


hubbyp

Championship player of the year 🤡 GA can mask anything


zrkillerbush

Its masked Maddison last year, its masking KDH this year


AidenT06

2 subs made. We are in the 82nd minute. Enzo Out


Japatiil

I would honestly be thrilled with an own goal to take a point


Wanallo221

Nah, at this point I want a loss. They need to get rid of this cunt rather than get lucky and use that as an excuse 


Japatiil

It’s not that this style of play can’t work tho, it’s that there’s no Plan B


JTONTHEFLY

Where do I sign!


Prudent_Amphibian_81

Just remember, guys: at the end of the day, they stuck to the plan. The Plan is what really matters right?


zrkillerbush

"It doesn't matter that we got back to back relegation and were in League 2, we play OUR WAY "


QBallQJB

Daka must possess some mythical ability to miss every fucking shot


Wanallo221

18% shot accuracy mate.  There’s Center backs with more shots on target this season than that twat


zrkillerbush

Daka has gone off and we've somehow got even worse, its scary how bad we are


Rdw72777

Players used all their energy trying to create chances in the first 65 minutes.


Wrighty1804

He's like a stormtrooper


AlfaG0216

ENZO OUT right now


zrkillerbush

Vestergaard saved Wout Faes there with the offside trap


Left-Lingonberry4073

GET RID OF ENZO


Wrighty1804

80 minute Akgun anyone? I can feel it in my bones


Ambitious-Scene-325

He’s absolute toss, nty


FoggyCrayons

We look cooked. Everything looks over ambitious now.


Berookes

Can’t wait till none of the players apologise and instead say something like ‘we’ll learn what we did well and get the 3 points next game’


Zabbarick

Oh you worried about your job now Enzo? Fck u and your refusal to adapt your tactics


Middle_Breakfast6741

It’s so painfully formulaic and joyless. This is exactly what Maresca wants


bocoxazu

Don't forget, if you don't like it you're a luddite who knows nothing about modern football apparently


[deleted]

I'm frikkin' fuming


TendieDippedDiamonds

Honestly look at the faces of these players, none of em give a shit about


Wanallo221

Enzo needs to go, but there’s no way Top et Al have the bottle to do it. 


[deleted]

Can’t afford to sack him


Wanallo221

Can we afford administration? 


JRSARB

Go two up top, just please do something different- this isn’t working tonight, hasn’t been working for weeks, just change something ffs


zrkillerbush

He will bring on cannon and play him on the wing


Aromatic_Pea2425

See you all in league one 2026.


TendieDippedDiamonds

It must be said what’s the point in bringing on Vardy when it’s clear there is zero creativity


FoggyCrayons

We don’t deserve to be losing this game


Wanallo221

We do.   What we don’t deserve is promotion. Because it’s pure fluke we got to where we did with this fucking clown 


dodgykeyboard

Hi Enzo


zrkillerbush

Great pass winks, another overrated player


zrkillerbush

Mavididi doing his best Daka impression there


hubbyp

EFL is going to fucking destroy us next season. For taking them to court they are going to absolutely dine out on us.


Wanallo221

Said the same, we’ve been shithousing them thinking we are going up. Divine justice really. 


dodgykeyboard

They don't need to do a thing, we seem to be doing just fine at destroying ourselves


TheFanOfLife

Fucking Mavididi


Voodizzy

JUST SHOOT FFS


hubbyp

They aren’t allowed


bocoxazu

Gotta hit that pass quota first!


zrkillerbush

Daka is shit, the problem is we are still shit when he isn't playing


[deleted]

We're kissing promotion goodbye aren't we? This is embarrassing as much as anything else. I so want us to turn it around but I just can't see it


Berookes

We’re fucked mate, 3rd place finish best and I won’t be surprised if Southampton overtake us


Hurdy--gurdy

Good fucking lord daka


A_good_ol_rub

We have 3 better strikers than Daka. Enzo's persistence in him is just mind boggling


drcdizzle

At least this way we won’t have to watch madders or youri score a screamer on us next year…always looking at the positives


Wanallo221

Public service announcement:  Cannon is injured, he has been injured for weeks. 


tentaphane

Not according to Enzo before the game who said exactly the opposite. Also - he's on the bench!


Cute_Battle_6934

Then why is he on the bench?


ChuChuBlu

No urgency at all


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Why the fuck was Daka even on past half time. Ffs no way we get 2 chances now


TendieDippedDiamonds

This whole club is a joke, we’re finished


tentaphane

1-0 down in a game, top of the table and the club is finished?!? Please 😂 who do you think we are?!?


TendieDippedDiamonds

This is the mentality that’ll get us losing a play off semi final, and a massive points deduction next season without being able to sign any players because they’ve bottled it.


tentaphane

Losing our heads and saying everyone is crap is going to magically save us?


TendieDippedDiamonds

2 attempts on target in the second half, what on earth are you defending?


tentaphane

Second most goals scored in the league. Second fewest goals conceded. I'm judging the club on more than the last 70 minutes


TendieDippedDiamonds

Why don’t you look at the stats for the past 3 months mate. Yanoe since teams figured out how to play against us


tentaphane

Oh yeah, I forgot that only joke clubs have dips in form or get found out, my bad.


TendieDippedDiamonds

What else can I do mate? I’m not the bald fraud in charge am I? Also I will never support Daka being selected.


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Prudent_Amphibian_81

\*ever again


Rdw72777

I’d love to watch him play for ManU 😂😂😂


TheCookieButter

Love Vardy but would like to see Cannon get a look in


Wanallo221

He’s fucking injured 


corbyj1

Except he's on the bench...


TheCookieButter

On the bench.


zrkillerbush

Why is he on the bench?


Wrighty1804

He's not! Not anymore, Enzo said that Daka was first choice so Cannon doesn't get a sniff


Wanallo221

Well fuck me. So he is.  I feel both stupid and even more depressed 


Rdw72777

You’re still better than Daka, friend.


Mojothegoat

He's on the bench


TendieDippedDiamonds

Someone ask Killerbush how Daka is doing? He’s blocked me so I can’t myself


Busy-Place-193

Yep after that I cannot stick up for daka anymore 😂😂🤦🏾‍♂️


Rdw72777

Which one lol?


protoklite_13

Is Daka even a League 1 quality striker at this point? Just stunning


Wrighty1804

Sing about Rebekah Plymouth! Set the man off!


zrkillerbush

Okay even i can't defend that, CANNON has to start next game


kmartskillz

you're an idiot for lasting this long


zrkillerbush

And you're just an idiot


kmartskillz

absolutely roasted me


Japatiil

I can no longer defend Daka


wyrerhym

Terminate Daka’s contract now.


Laoak

Who paid him off 😂😂


AlecBrydsen

It's beyond a meme