Today was a bad day. As everyone knows we don’t have the squad to compete, first 11 possibly can compete on their day but with it being a congested World Cup year to have your options up front being ched and Woodbury off the bench and giving a debut to a young lad is pathetic.
For me RL is doing a good job with what he has. He cant play free flowing football as we don’t have the quality, all he can do is drill them and set them up well which has worked when the first 11 play but not when squad players start.
Bambo is an absolutely shocking defender, I know he has his fans on here but if you know anything about positioning and managing a threat he is terrible (not to mention the daft things he does).
Twice today maguire went down under pressure in reasonably good positions and Stoke broke away to have a good chance. He is not good enough.
Riis is predictable with back to goal always turns to his right, they worked that out early on.
Midfield never go for the second ball (maybe because they are drilled to be in position rather than go for the ball and potentially be caught out)
I am genuinely beginning to think that at the moment our best option is to play long ball football and put Bambo and Riis up front, Brady and Alvarado can cross a ball from deep so why not. Rather see goals than this dross and no one would expect a return to the 1980’s
