Phew! Not the most convincing win but a win never the less.
Our defensive play borders between average and horrendous; it's at times so tentative that it makes us look horrendous. I don't think it helps that we have a keeper who's tentative himself when coming for, or receiving a ball in pressure situations - this just seems to exacerbate matters.
The lack of confidence reverberated throughout the side all afternoon and we never looked comfortable, or really in control of the game. Thank fvck for our attack, who seem to have the added burden of bailing out our defensive flaws.
I gave Henderson the MoTM (he should be chipping in with more goals like that) but his work rate and determination we're top notch, reminded me so much of Dirk Kuyt yesterday.
Another one who gets stick is Joe Allen, I thought he was very good at pressing and pick pocketing their players and playing some good passes around.
Don't really want to analyse this game too much, I'm just grateful we won.
Oh yeah, one other thing, the ref was utterly fvcking shabite!
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