We badly need a new CB this month. Jos is nowhere near good enough.
Seven goal thriller, who'd have thunked it.
We badly need a new CB this month. Jos is nowhere near good enough.
Glad we are through but respect to Burnley for never giving up.
Aside from allowing us to progress to the next round this game demonstrated to the management team that Hooiveld, the Jap and Kelvin Davis are simply not good enough for our squad.
We bossed the midfield throughout, and looked ok(ish) going forward but our central defence pairing were simply woeful today. It says it all when Fonte came on for Jos for the last quarter of the game to save any further embarrassment. Kelvin was poor and the sooner Boruc returns and a decent understudy is appointed the better.
Clyne and Shaw had good games, with both getting forward at every opportunity. Had Lovren and Fonte started, the afternoon would've been much easier.
To summarise, when Hooiveld and the jap make a better than average Championship forward line look good, you know it's time they find another team, or career.
On to the fourth round we go