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Team were awful all round but 4 subs at half time really limited our tactical options second half. Surprised at that.
For me it was lazy thinking.
Any tactical tweaks? How many shots did his super subs get on goal?
It is important we do look at this in context though. Europa league group stage away to a team we should beat. Arrogance, overconfidence, lack of respect, yeah there were all of those. It’s a game we can afford to lose, although it is embarrassing, and yes, that performance was shite. I’m angry, yet I understand that this is easily reversible. It’s annoying that these players are paid handsomely, they shouldn’t pick and choose when to turn up, but this has always been a part of football. I’m confident the urgency will be back for Brighton, it has to be given the context and the competition, which is why I feel the players and team struggled tonight. Context and competition didn’t really seem to be enough for them, just how it is sometimes unfortunately.I really don’t understand how some of you can say “fair play, Antwerp were the better team, they deserved it” etc and then say “absolute lack of desire. Embarrassing performance” Had we lost 1-0 to a PL team and put in that performance in, we’d be calling for heads.
We’ve got our first choice eleven, which I think everybody would pretty much agree with. Make 3/4 chamnes to that 11, any 3/4 across different positions and you’re should be ok. Make the number of changes we made and you are asking for trouble.
Sanchez and Davies as partners was a disaster. Sanchez needs a leader beside him and Davies is not a leader and his experience at centreback is virtually non existent.
He is not my favourite but he was one of our best players tonight. Never put a foot wrong. Well, there was that one fk up in the first half but other than that lol. Played well.Sanchez is a horrendous defender
Here we go again....The only change we need to make is the manager, for a youngish progressive football thinker. Mourinho is old hat!
Sorry but I’m not following you at all. It doesn’t belittle Antwerp in any way to say they deserved to win and were the better side. It’s as close to a fact as a subjective judgement could ever be. Not does it change the fact that we were utterly awful. If we play like that and lose in the premier league I would have no problem saying the sameReally struggling to understand how you’ve made that conclusion tbh.
My point is you never ever see us congratulating Premier League teams when we put in equally bad performances. If anything it belittles Antwerp.
Right. Bad day at the office. A few players might have started to believe the hype, but if there was a game to lose in order to remind them about how hard we need to work for success then an early group game in the Europa is it.
FFS knuckle down and come back with a point to prove on Sunday.
How could they never learn, that's what bothering me. This core of players have been through European ties for so many seasons and the disappointment in one of our earlier CL season was exactly the same - when the team seems so confident but turned up unprepared and lack of sharpness.Context and competition didn’t really seem to be enough for them, just how it is sometimes unfortunately.
We’ll see if you do then. I have never been in a match thread where I’ve seen such collective sucking up to the opposition. It’s embarrassing tbh.Sorry but I’m not following you at all. It doesn’t belittle Antwerp in any way to say they deserved to win and were the better side. It’s as close to a fact as a subjective judgement could ever be. Not does it change the fact that we were utterly awful. If we play like that and lose in the premier league I would have no problem saying the same
Can i winner this twice. He is so over rated.Winks is not good enough and needs to go. Who
Does he think he is taking that shot on when he hasn’t scored a goal since forever! On top of that he nearly gifted a second, made no key passes. What is it that he actually offers?
So Dele off for peh I'd take reguillon off (Toby) as well I think he has been really poor. Then we look at the front line, son and Kane on at 60 mins if nothing has changed.
Some good and some bad and some very bad (Dele)
I would have thought after the Burnley display on Monday they would have "come back down to earth"We lost and Antwerp deserved their win, a very solid defense that was too strong to break. I agree with Jose's subs but as a whole, we did not play to our expectations. Maybe, a good thing for the players to come down back to earth and dig in to win future games.