Felipe Anderson isn’t a guy to let things get his down and gave a pretty lucid explanation why the team found life so difficult against Manchester City.
However, conceding four goals in the second period of the game via some indifferent defending is a disappointment although the Brazilian fully expects things to get better quickly.
For the time being, however, waking up on a Sunday morning and seeing ourselves bottom of the league with five goals conceded is a depressing sight.
However, it seems impossible that we shall stay there for long with the amount of talent in the team and a toughening up experience would be a good thing.
As the manager pointed out in his post match presser, the 13 fouls conceded by City – with new boy Rodri an offender – shows where we may need to start.
An example of that is seen in the buildup to the City penalty when it may well have been possible to have halted the opposition’s progress by taking one for the team outside the box.
Anderson though seems convinced all will be well and told https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2019/august/11-august/felipe-anderson-we-have-quality-do-much-more: “The team felt prepared but I think that the first games of the season are harder because you are still getting your grips on details.
“We were happy before the game because we were playing in front of our people and that’s always a pleasure, but we weren’t where we wanted to be.
“For sure we expected to do better. We hoped we could get a better result playing at home, but it was hard because they are an excellent side, who played a fantastic match. We need to keep on fine tuning things in order to be where we want to be.
“Our coach always wants to have the ball, to attack, to take the game to our rivals. Unfortunately, in this game we couldn’t be as offensive as we would have liked. We have the quality to do much more, but we will keep on working and I’m sure things will be better soon.”
He concluded: “Last season was really good, I adapted really quick I hope that this year we can do better, individually and also collectively and that we can be able to try to win every match no matter the rivals.”