We're clearly not in a disasterous position, still in with a shout in every competition at the half way point of the season and we're all obviously hoping that at some stage the penny will drop and we'll start performing to our capabilities. Until then it's painful viewing on occasions, the worrying thing is that, like last night, the same problems keep recurring. All teams/players can have off days but the basics, tempo, work rate and desire, are not about ability they'e all about attitude and ours seems to be wrong too often at the moment. To me it looks like we're missing 'leaders' on the pitch, the only one who appears to have that attitude is Hart and, as goalkeeper, he's limited in the affect he can exert. Pellegrini has some big decisions to make over the coming weeks because whatever happens in the cup competitions he needs to keep us challenging for the league and in the right frame of mind for Kiev.
Just to clear up last nights 'offside' debate - between them, the referee and linesman got the decision spot on. No way was Lukaka impeding Willy's line of sight, if anything Mangala was, Lukaka was moving away from the direction of the initial shot not toward it. We'd have been unhappy if that has been our goal and it has been chalked off (which it probably would have been). Missed a clear penalty on Navas later.
