Every decision as expected with Atwell and Oliver went against us. That offside goal would not be given to us and was a disgraceful decision.
They were also allowed to foul at will without the threat of a card (usual late ones given to pad the stats).
BUT
Again not great by us.
Ederson for me at fault for the 1st goal with awful positioning and could have saved the second but defence was all over the place.
its our attacking thats a huge concern, the team is painfully slow and despite having one of the best strikers we cannot get him into games. Whats the now, 6 goals in 8 away games with 3 of those at Leeds.
this team has come to the end of its cycle, defence has injury prone 3 main CB’s, one excellent but ageing RB and other full backs are not good enough and cannot defend. What happened to our rock solid defence from a few seasons back.
Midfield and wingers are a mess. We have zero pace which means as we give the ball cheaply away about 10 times per game we just cannot catch the team attacking us, we have no wingers with pace and directness to take a defender on.
we have to stop buying at Poundland as the quality ofourbuys like Gomez, Phillips, Akanji are a million miles off the level required. Our squad looks the weakest its been for some time.
Our very slow tippy tappy sideways game does not work anymore. We start every game slowly ( think we have 5 goals in the 1st 15 mins all season). Teams have worked us out, just attack us as we are defencivly weak or wait for us to make an error.
The game Seems to be about pace and energy now, and we have neither in the squad.
Sad to say but like at Southampton, the Rags wanted it more today. Forget the title, the way we are playing a top 4 will be a challenge this season as its no longer a blip:
Rags 1-2
Southampton 0-2
Chelsea 4-0
Chelsea 1-0 ( where we were awful 1st half)
Everton 1-1
Leeds 3-1
Liverpool 3-2 ( thank god they had Nunez missing everything)
Brentford 1-2