Lessons learned from first game

[army88]

https://youtu.be/TcLANlqFSow

Looks Like Cullen is ****e to me, nothing to do with Esteve playing a ball 5 mins prior

Bit of both for me Darkness , however what I would say is Cullen does well to a point and then decides to let Kudos run when he should imo of brought him down - last times lessons don?t let ball be delivered into the 6 yard box un opposed as it usually results in conceding goals especially when your centre back isn?t even looking at who he?s marking he?s watching kudos deliver it On a plate for rcharlison. ( horrible human being )

2nds a wotrldy but he got 5 yards again and 3rd were asleep and Johnson is already running -

We had weak links in 3-4 positions and we ended up paying the ultimate price as teams just do not allow you to get away with that - and just like previous if you don?t take your chances and hit the target when it?s there games quickly get out of reach.

[Supersub6]

Bit of both for me Darkness , however what I would say is Cullen does well to a point and then decides to let Kudos run when he should imo of brought him down - last times lessons don?t let ball be delivered into the 6 yard box un opposed as it usually results in conceding goals especially when your centre back isn?t even looking at who he?s marking he?s watching kudos deliver it On a plate for rcharlison. ( horrible human being )

2nds a wotrldy but he got 5 yards again and 3rd were asleep and Johnson is already running -

We had weak links in 3-4 positions and we ended up paying the ultimate price as teams just do not allow you to get away with that - and just like previous if you don?t take your chances and hit the target when it?s there games quickly get out of reach.

Just watched it again and Esteve should have cleared the ball into the stand or up field. We had been under constant pressure for those first 9 minutes and it needed the heat taking out of the situation. FTD if you think that that was 5 minutes beforehand, you need to get your watch fixed.

As for Kudus, remember West Ham at home two seasons ago. We were winning with 5 minutes to go when Kudus beat Charlie Taylor crossed the ball and O-Shea scored an own goal. Five minutes later and 1 minute into added time Kudus got another cross in and Coufal (I think) scored the winner.

I know that we have a totally different team, however, it is the responsibility of management and staff to know who is likely to give us problems. We must not have done our homework because that West Ham game was a real giveaway. Our seventh home game of the season which shold have been our first win but ended in defeat because we allowed them to get crosses into the box. Nothing changes.

[army88]

Just watched it again and Esteve should have cleared the ball into the stand or up field. We had been under constant pressure for those first 9 minutes and it needed the heat taking out of the situation. FTD if you think that that was 5 minutes beforehand, you need to get your watch fixed.

As for Kudus, remember West Ham at home two seasons ago. We were winning with 5 minutes to go when Kudus beat Charlie Taylor crossed the ball and O-Shea scored an own goal. Five minutes later and 1 minute into added time Kudus got another cross in and Coufal (I think) scored the winner.

I know that we have a totally different team, however, it is the responsibility of management and staff to know who is likely to give us problems. We must not have done our homework because that West Ham game was a real giveaway. Our seventh home game of the season which shold have been our first win but ended in defeat because we allowed them to get crosses into the box. Nothing changes.

Sub

As I put going back previously 2 seasons we let ball be delivered into our box and at this level you can’t that - kudos as you say has done it before to us and others but in a line of events I think Esteve should have given it the big boot - Cullen should have brought him down when he had the chance ( we can argue wether that’s wrong or right - but I’d have done my absolute best including bringing him down to stop the ball going in our box.

Ekdal is a ball watching centre back lacking a yard or two of pace at this level and switched off for their first and third no pace to get back around.

Your also right that the management are complicit in all of the above - knowledge of opposing players - selection of our players and formations to trouble the opposition and as it looked we didn’t really commit to any of the above, part of me thinks that Parker was somehow sentimentally caught up in going back to his old club where he was loved and the other part of me thinks he picked the wrong personnel and didn’t react to stop them driving their bus through the middle of the park.