Quote Originally Posted by WTF11 View Post
So apart from gifting them a goal, Llorente was fine? Bit like Ayling was ok apart from sticking his foot out.

We competed quite well against the likes of Liverpool and City (admittedly not coming away with wins, but that early in the season, just having gained promotion? Seems like we have gone backwards not forwards). We made Leicester look ordinary (and were shy of Roberts and Costa and their "contribution"!), gave a good account of ourselves against Everton, and have the same players available now as then, we just didn't have them on the park to start with.

Not sure why we performed as we did yesterday, lack of sharpness, poor passing, (playing with nine men (or perhaps 8.5 if you take Klich into account) for 45 minutes didn't help of course), poor defending (especially 1st half, second there was nowhere near the same pressuring going on), gifting two goals in first 30 minutes. We seem to revel in making the job harder (the aforementioned selections, tippy tappy in the 18yd area nearly cost us another goal, when will that stop?).
If it wasn't for that great start we had WTF we would be talking about life in the championship again. Take the first 10 games out and we would be screwed. It's not the first time we went on a bad run is it 4 losses from 5 games something similar happen earlier.
Selections are baffling mind you Harrison didn't do any better coming on.