I largely agree, but as I've said in Silva's performance thread, he runs games for Spain, and has been made captain recently, now that's in a pretty decent side, but here as you say, when its not going well, he is peripheral.
The problems today were started by the wrong team selection, compounded by players either not good enough, or not doing their job, and further compounded by players like DS and KdB giving the ball away too cheaply, with our defensive players out of position.
People keep saying its not the system, so what the f**k is it ? Because it seriously out of kilter at the moment, and has been for some time in the PL.