Did the players choke in the first half or did they play as instructed?

It was awful, it's hard to criticise the strikers who have to try and feed off that rubbish. I find it odd that they came out in the second half and battered them for 20 mins, their fans were in stunned silence. The only implication from this is that Nolan got the tactics totally wrong in the first half.

We can play football but too often we play aimless long balls and you must have all seen the under 11's image of all outfield players in a tight circle of about 30m2 on a few occasions, don't think I've ever seen that in the pro game to such an obvious degree. No attempt to pull off and stretch play, it was like the ball had a magnet in it. Our movement was poor to non existent in the first half, we were slow and seem to have players who react rather than read a game.

We were clearly afraid of their pace so sat deep and were slow to come out, Forte, I felt sorry for, no supprt at all and yet he gets slaughtered.

Mass clearout has to happen.