the_georgian_genius wrote:xavi6 wrote:the_georgian_genius wrote:xavi6 wrote:the_georgian_genius wrote:Are Silva, Kompany, De Jong, Hart ect expected to play Sat, Thur, Sun, Wed, Sat and perform to the best of their abilities? because that won't happen.
What are squads for is they aren't used properly? We had a more than good enough side out tonight to be competitive and come away with some points and we were one sitter and one freak goal away from doing that.
I would of liked to have seen Balotelli come on but apart from that i thought we were unlucky tonight. You couldn't say that at Wolves.
Sorry but we weren't unlukcy, we were fucking shite.
'Unlukcy' makes it sound like we didn't deserve to lose. We did.
We weren't shite at all, if were going to be rational in debating the game then lets start telling it how it is. We may have not played well but we weren't shite, the draw was the fair result on the reflection of the game.
Our passing was hopeless early on and barely improved, we allowed them too much time on the ball in the middle of the park and we weren't clinical going forward.
All that is a recipe for being poor when you consider the level of players we had on the field compared to them.
Lets not disrespect Lech poznan here, i thought they were ok when they played us, they battered Juventus at their place and they sacked their manager last night, they were up for it tonight, they are a decent side. One that we should be beating at home and looking to get a point away from home. We aren't good enough yet to be saying we expect 3 points away from home in europe.
Don't get me wrong, Lech were very good, but if you take our performance and look at it closely it simply wasn't up to scratch. How many times were Micah and Bridge caught out? Both were booked by the half hour mark.
Vieira was pathetic, as was SWP, and these abject perfomances cost us massively. Ade was the only starting player who performed well for me and Silva was good when he came on.
I'd have gladly taken a point but we didn't get one, and it goes down as a poor performance for me.