Watching the highlights reel; we had about 6 shots in the box including the penalty and Duffy header. The other 4 shots either missed the goal significantly or went straight to the keeper.
That was the area of our play that was reminiscent of the end of last season and must change if we are to...
Their first team shredded our defence in the first half and scored, looked very easy. I’m not sure we did the same to them? I also don’t recall them having the easy chances we had.
Not a strange comment at all. We need to find another way of scoring other than set-pieces, we clearly can’t rely on corners, free kicks and penalties, if we could, a lot more games would have been like Palace at home last season.
The performance ‘looked’ good with the style of football being played but it really did take me back to the days of Poyet with defenders passing between themselves and the game not really going anywhere at times.
Can’t remember us having many shots; without the set-pieces, we’d have lost, no...