Not many blaming Stones though for his stupidity in trying to intercept a ball like that on the half way line.
I blamed him, and it wasn't on the half way, it was 5-10 yards into their half.
When you only have 3 defenders (our game plan yesterday) losing one from a suicidal effort to intercept the ball is bad news, if the other is jogging back from being too far forward, then its poor planning for me. I've been told on here that our defending was good yesterday, it wasn't it was poor, they had 3 attacks of note, scored one, and could easily have scored twice, I've also said that Clichy was our best defender, because he is a defender first and foremost, and concentrates on it, so its no surprise that he was the one trying to cut off Lukaku, whilst the other 2 were nowhere to be seen.
I fully understand what Pep wants from the defenders, and I'm all in favour, but I hope he's telling them at training tomorrow, that suicidal attempts have no place in this team, because both Stones (for the goal), and Otamendi minutes earlier put us in trouble with it, and when we are so pushed forward against a team that clearly came to counter attack, it is suicidal.
All of that said, you also can't afford to be missing 2 penalties in any game at the top level, especially tight games, and despite playing some very good football, we only got a point, and the blame lies at both ends of the pitch for not winning, if Stones hadn't dived in and missed, we win 1-0, had we scored either penalty we win 2-1 (or 3-1).
Some will accuse me expecting perfection, but I imagine that Pep also expects perfection, and while the football yesterday was sublime at times, we didn't win, and it wasn't just down to their keeper being inspired, as he was, it was down to our mistakes too.