Very hard to pick a MOTM, thought we were as bad today as we were good last week.
Prob go for Mac as my MOTM, Grav was non-existent 1st half, and Jones was quieter than he has been, but thought Mac worked hard, got tackles in etc.
First half Konate was back to looking poor, because TAA at RB was nowhere to be found as usual a lot of the time. In fairness he's coming back from a layoff. But need to seriously think about what we want from RB in the future, Bradley was shoring up RB, and we were looking a lot more solid in general. Just feels like its too easy to get us on the backfoot when TAA there, in games like this when 'defending' is more important than creating from that position.
Up front, we never looked like scoring, maybe best chance was in the first minute when Jota was thro and had a heavy touch off his knee instead of maybe hitting it first time.
Missing too many starters, Bradley, Szobo, Mo, Endo and playing guys who are not quite at it. Elliot for me is not up to playing these big games, just runs around and passes backward, and why the hell is he on the right when he constantly has to check and come back inside when a first time cross would be much better option, and we end up with a weak cross or backpass.
Still, Ali and VVD making a complete F***ing mess of a simple situation summed up the day.
Easy to say put it behind you and go again. And that what we need to do. What else can we do.
But we're not in a title race with Arsenal, we're in it with Citeh.
And we know for a fact that that can go on a 10 game winning run at this stage of the season.
Deja F***ing vu.
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