Everything seems a struggle. Making simple passes looks hard. Actually controlling the ball looks like an effort for most of our players. We're second to every ball, so every team just plays one-twos around us like we are not even there. The finishing, though. Fecking hell, the finishing. The actual point of football is to score goals. At its core, it's a simple game. But, we over-complicate it and try to be too clever. Sometimes you have to just do the simple things like make the simple passes actually reach your players, and then control the ball when the ball comes to you.
Do our players actually work on this in their own time? If my finishing rate was as poor as Garnacho's and we are where we are in the league, you can beat your arse that I'd be working on my finishing and putting in the hours outside of the standard training time with the squad to actually work on this area. Every problem we have is actually, at its heart, a simple problem. We don't run enough to close players down, because our fitness is shit, our awareness of what's around us is shit, our mentality is shit, and our tenacity to win the ball back is shit. We will never, ever control games if we can't pass the actual fecking ball and keep hold of it.