TC, agree that overall we defended well but as you say we made 3 big mistakes for their goals. That tendency to self inflick trouble has to go.
I know MB demands to play out from the back, but there's a time when to do it.
Predictable passing across & in the box, backpassing it to Meslier who then more often than not floats a ball to either wing, it just asking for problems.
Daniel, the striker role isn't something that suits James, as his goalscoring record tells US he's not clinical enough. He needs to improve vastly on chosing the correct option and his final ball too.
Guess you don't like him as a player, fair enough. I have also questioned splashing out that amount of cash for the one position we're actually loaded in.
But thus far not seen enough from Summerville, McKinstry and even more so from Miller that they would be ready.
Klich role has been very limited in recent games (that's with a lot of our main players out injured), so the game time people like McCalmont or Boguesz would also remain very limited.
To me yesterday Harrison was rather poor and struggled with Reece James, got brushed aside plenty & had very little impact going forward. Would have taken him off, not Shacks.
In general, plenty of impressive performances yesterday.
Ayling at times looked a bit rusty when defending, but especially in the second got forward very well. Best game I've seen Firpo play!
Roberts again had a good game, got lucky with a dangerous tackle, great pass to Joffy. Forshaw broke up play a lot & again ran his socks off and kept the ball well.
TC, agree that overall we defended well but as you say we made 3 big mistakes for their goals. That tendency to self inflick trouble has to go.
I know MB demands to play out from the back, but there's a time when to do it.
Predictable passing across & in the box, backpassing it to Meslier who then more often than not floats a ball to either wing, it just asking for problems.
Daniel, the striker role isn't something that suits James, as his goalscoring record tells US he's not clinical enough. He needs to improve vastly on chosing the correct option and his final ball too.
Guess you don't like him as a player, fair enough. I have also questioned splashing out that amount of cash for the one position we're actually loaded in.
But thus far not seen enough from Summerville, McKinstry and even more so from Miller that they would be ready.
Klich role has been very limited in recent games (that's with a lot of our main players out injured), so the game time people like McCalmont or Boguesz would also remain very limited.
To me yesterday Harrison was rather poor and struggled with Reece James, got brushed aside plenty & had very little impact going forward. Would have taken him off, not Shacks.
In general, plenty of impressive performances yesterday.
Ayling at times looked a bit rusty when defending, but especially in the second got forward very well. Best game I've seen Firpo play!
Roberts again had a good game, got lucky with a dangerous tackle, great pass to Joffy. Forshaw broke up play a lot & again ran his socks off and kept the ball well.
Such a pity we didn't get our just rewards.