Not a lot to be said that hasn't been already, but my thoughts anyway.
After the past few weeks I think that Shelvey can be a bit disappointed to find himself behind both Spearing and Hendo - recently he has shown that his all round game is better than both of them, and he seems to offer more, so I was slightly surprised not to see him start actually.
I was also expecting Kuyt to start, with Bellers being introduced later when he could have had more impact and not the other way around.
Perhaps most perplexing was the lack of change at half time. We obviously needed something different - Luis was so isolated that I was certain that Andy would come on (probably for Spearing, who was shocking and looked totally out of his depth), and we would start to push higher up the pitch and put pressure on the back four. When he did come on it was really too late, and left us with too much to do.
If I had a criticism of KK it is that he (like many managers) seems reluctant to make a change at half time - what was going to change in the first 20mins of the second half with the same players on the pitch? Is it an attempt to validate the starting lineup? But a change was needed and if that had been at half time maybe it would have been a different outcome.
Finally on the was it/wasn't it - the replay/still that was shown on SBS here in Oz, I couldn't see any of the ball in front of the line, but there didn't seem to be any daylight between the ball and the line. Never really understood the whole of the ball reasoning, always felt it should be at least half the ball. However when you consider the goal they scored in the semi, then we were hard done by.
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