Ekong is just a joke, isn't he. I've never seen a centre back who is more of a liability on the ball.
Cathcart has offered nothing, Louza has been asleep, Cleverley is 2 minutes behind real time, Dennis barely had a touch, have we had a single shot on goal? The passing is lazy, slow. No movement, being over run all over the pitch Christ knows how Xisco sorts this out, all of them need substituting. Think this is over.
Yeah but in his defence, no one could ever have predicted that WTE would do something like that. It's just so out of character for him. How can you possibly legislate for such a freak occurrence?
Not the end of the world. Still a half to try and turn it around, and face it: we're never good at the Amex.
Great decision to pass on Lyanco. Southampton can spot a defender. Dijk, Vestergaard for instance. Gino of course thinks we are okay. Numskull. TE deserves fining for the pass and Cleverley needs to be more aware of what is behind him. Appalling.
Oh Troost. So promising last week and it's all gone back to ****. He's not the only one obviously. Not sure Xisco has the ability to change it either.
That’s more than 2 metres. He’s about 10yds away I’d say. And frankly he’s relying on the fact his teammate isn’t going to pass the ball to him when he’s already marked and has his back to the action.
They have not really needed to do anything Clive. We are playing at the pace of a friendly with the commitment levels to match. Shocking. They have been allowed to walk past players.
Shameful. We beat Villa through hard work and high pressing. Absolutely nothing of the sort on show today. They think they've made it after one match.
Utterly horrendous. All our nightmares about the midfield and defence have come true. Far too slow, weak and static. The back four’s passing is giving heart palpitations and unless we change things drastically at half time this could get embarrassing.
A levels check from the team that finished 15th and 16th the last two seasons - we're letting them do to us what City did to Norwich earlier
I'll give it til the start of second half if Xisco hasn't made at least 2 changes, one being someone else at rb, I'm watching telly
This is why people question Xisco. He's literally gone "oh, we beat Villa, that should do again!". Cathcart should be nothing more than a stop gap at right back, our best centre back should be starting every game, and ultra talented Cucho who's just scored a worldy should be playing over that useless f**k Sema who isn't even halfway good enough for this league.
It's not the getting beat but the total collapse this half which has been so utterly depressing. We can't be as bad as this in the 2nd half. Can we?
Cleverly has been a yard behind the pace all game including there. Troost 75% at fault but Cleverly has to think quicker. He’s not up to it.
Masina is that height, the tallest of our outfield players, but he decided not to even jump with his man to challenge him, and it worked out splendidly. For Brighton.
For all those people clamouring for Louza to start , thats the reason why . Positionally and tactically he has been inadequate and his defensive work rate is not good enough . Kucka is 12 years older than him but it looks the other way round .
OK, so we're getting comprehensively outplayed, getting outnumbered all over the pitch and at least 3 players short of our best available XI...what exactly do we do at half time?
