I don't blame the keeper or the defense - literally every player made big mistakes yesterday. There are certain areas when you're just in that transition into attack when not all the opposition is back, and you have players bombing forward you just cannot give the ball away. That's why we build...
Even watching the og back, McNeil is in so much space, if JS does cover the near post better it’s a simple square ball for a tap in. We were quite simply all over the shop that first half.
The game was done at HT. The xG goals for the first half would be a more accurate reflection of the game. They could easily have got 4 or 5 at HT was as we barely managed a shot.
Of course the second half changed the xG stats and Pickford pull off a couple of regulation saves but there is no...
Just watched the replays and yes 1 goal, their 3rd the one off him at the near post. Anyone blaming him for the other 4 are in some kind of fantasy land.
Will have to watch it back, but I didn’t think Pickford’s saves were that special, thought our finishing was poor. I was in the South stand and didn’t think Steele could have stopped any of them because they were so well worked. Like I said though, not seen any replays.
How can you judge a comparison of consistency between the 2 keepers when Steele doesn't really play more than 1 game at a time? RS has 6 PL clean sheets, only 6 teams have conceded less goals than us, 2 of those teams we've only conceded 1 more. +10GD. I know he made a mistake v Palace, but...