Well I don't know. I look at the players and while there are some shortcomings, the reality is on paper that is a good squad. With attacking players of Kane/Son/Bale/Lamela/Alli/Moura/Vinicius it's pretty hard to see many concerns there. You should be able to string together an attack with that.
The midfield of Ndombele/Hojbjerg/Lo Celso/Winks/Sissoko (I know I've put Ndombele and Lo Celso here, and maybe they should be in that attacking group), but again this isn't that dire.
Then the back line players, including wingers of Reguilon/Davies/Dier/Alderweireld/Sanchez/Aurier/Doherty/Tanganga/Rodon is't bad either. How it's so disorganized shambolic at times is honestly beyond me!
Obviously having Lloris behind all of that should be stable and he's definitely made some unreal saves for us this season (and of course some costly errors, but no game rests entirely on him that I can think of).
So...I don't know. I feel like with a better manager we are sitting quite a bit higher in the table. I don't know if it's the idea that players are terrified to be caught out of position because that means no game time for weeks on end, or just a plain old pathetic setup? Regardless though, things aren't working and it's hard to pin that on the players when you look down that roster.
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