From one type of mid-table mentality to another. Last season it was conservative, careful and boring football. This season, it's been unsophisticated, naive and careless football.
No accountability for the positioning of our midfield. Busquets and Rakitic spend half the game either struggling to get back and make up for carefree positioning or walking around catching their breath when we had possession, so that no flow could be established.
No effort to control the game whatsoever. No coolness on the ball and no cohesive pacing in attack. Especially with Rakitic, it's very much either passing it backwards or going for a risky all-or-nothing ball forward. There's no general flow or 'building' to it.