In all honesty I wouldn’t be too upset to exit this competition and focus on the league and fa cup.
That would be ok if we were playing with our usual verve in any recent game. Nobody minds a ‘controlled, professional performance’ when the result backs it up, but we have a real fight on our hands to win the league.
We’ve come this far surely to goodness we are going to play a game between now and the final league game where we play our normal high energy game?
With this result we have now put ourselves in a predicament for Sunday, do we play a team with one mind of going strong in the second leg?
This could easily unravel if we don’t get back on top of our performances, and quickly