Let's put it this way, the midfield engine room is causing BR's job, if he ever looses it :-
Lallana - not taught and not told told to play to his potential, one final pass to the front line players to open up a scoring opportunity is all that is needed and he chose to pass the ball backwards. Perhaps he has been conditioned by BR to do that on a safety first basis approach. Too lightweight to do any defending.
Hendo - Mr. neat and the running man and occasionally a world class pass, another lightweight. Putting the body in front of an opposition player with no serious intention of tackling and regain possession.
Lucas - we all know he's not the fastest, it's a perfect situation for opposition players to run pass us and not to get near him. I'll tell BR to look at the number of times that the Stoke's players ran past him to score yesterday. If Br couldn't see that, he's truly blind or too stubborn not to admit he has failed.
Allen - too lighweight, can't tackle, can't outrun and can't out muscle the opposition players. can do neat passes just about that. Is Allen related to BR in someways?
Stevie - he's a yard or two slower but still much better than many of those above at the age of 33, how sad our midfield has come to this stage.
Coutinho - he offers much going forward but still too lightweight to defend.
In summary, perhaps BR still doesn't know that he has a big big big time problem in the engine room, and sentiments and standards ala swansea has caused him to continue to stick to these players. He may have knew of the problem but experience is not on his side or perhaps sentiments got in the way to allow him to rectify that. He could have lost the dressing room after the game against MU.
Looking at the starting line-up before the game, I told myself we would loose the game by 3-0, certainly not 6-1.
A manager that couldn't see such serious flaws in midfield and not fixing it but used such combination continuously is causing serious doubts on his capability and questions is now asked of his ability to keep us in the league, let alone getting into the top 4 next season. But, I strongly believe 3 seasons on BR and Pascoe is still very much remains the Swansea standard. FSG needs to be fully responsible for that for bringing in a rookie manager and I'm not going to start on the TC which was already deliberated at length already.
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