Why?
For having faith in our players that they’re better than those performances show? For wanting us to show a bit of ambition and progress in these games that are supposedly free hits? For wanting to be entertained and watch a football match, not a training routine? For not wanting to know...
A little bit of ambition at home, some confidence in our own ability, some attacking intent, some entertainment. Got none of that today.
As you say, we’re up with the big boys now and need to start believing it. They’d just lost 2 games, had a midfielder at centre back we didn’t test at all...
Weak, impotent, disappointing, predictable. See Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs games before.
We handed them the initiative at kick off with the starting 11 and then sat back all game. Had a chance to go at them after their two defeats but decided to sit back with our immensely slow midfield and...
When your tactic is just to defend then yes.
VVD is class but this must be his easiest game of the season so far. And with a makeshift partner. Disappointing if quite predictable.
That was pathetic from Gross, we could all see that coming a mile off.
Time to stop messing around, get Murray off and Andone on. Playing with 10 men at the moment.
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Good start. Could have been even better if we’d started our best striker as we should have done. Murray looks totally off the pace.
VVD has got a cigar on, Andone wouldn’t have let him.