Douglas Higginbottom wrote:gene_kelly wrote:The problem today wasn't bobby, the problem was our poor defensive reserves. Bobby all the way. As someone else has said, mourinho will piss off at the first smell of a job at the swamp, and i think bobby will do it for us
The reason we lost this game is nothing to do with our defensive capabilities.It was never gloing to be about that.
It was always going to be about whether our midfield and attack played well and created and scored the goals you need to win a football match. It didn't play well and we lost.
I felt today we were on the back foot from the start with poor midfield selection and balance. The fact that Swansea had so much possession and space in which to operate suggests we hadnt, maybe arrogantly, done our homework. Unacceptable.
Bobby tried to sort this at nil nil which is fair play. But Barry didnt look like a player with an injury to me when he stormed off embarrassed at being subbed in the first half. I thought De Jong should have come off and Yaya should have dropped deeper. A nitpick on my part perhaps, probably small potatoes.
Sadly for everyone, our 2 best attackers, Sergio and Silva, continued where they left off in Lisbon by playing poorly.
By the time Savic dropped his clanger you would have expected to have 2, maybe 3, in the onion bag if we were functioning properly further up the pitch.
We've lost our authority in Vincent, whose self belief energises the team in matches like today, and too much tinkering with 13 changes in 2 games.
