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That goal aside his signing seems to have been a complete waste of salary. I thought we could have done with a player like him last night with a little bit of craft to get in the pockets.

He was coming out anticipating a back pass I think

I think we need to go with two strikers really assuming that Sunderland sit deep

That's because we do not move the ball quickly enough, it takes us too long to go from side to side and by the time we do Wright or Saka are tightly marked.

Wright wasn't really at it but he was still a bigger threat than BTA who was a complete passenger.

We are not a terrible team defensively so when we do concede it's usually due to an error rather than just being opened up

To open the game up, to draw players out of position to allow another player to go into the space. Or we could keep playing the game and hoping for a mistake

The angle of the crosses we make are looking mostly for a player the back post or a late arrival

How we could have done with him tonight, somebody brave enough to take a pass with his back to goal, make angles and open the game up.

When a team is deep wanting to defend the penalty area you need some aerial power, it is bizarre that Lampard didn't recognise this early doors in the game. Simms should have come on at half time.

He wasn't wreckless just nothing

Wilson 6 MVE 5 that's another big mistake when it has mattered Thomas 6 Kitching 6 Da Silva 7 Sheaf 5 he was unnecessary in the game once it was obvious they were sat behind the ball Grimes 6 was ok but please don't try that shallow cross again Rudoni 6 for his goal but was otherwise anonymous...

What?

They'll sit deep at home and win 1-0, we'll huff and puff

Yes it was that bad.

Nothing to do with the ref, we were shit

Pathetic performance after all the social media nonsense. Lampard demonstrating again zero tactical awareness or flexibility, they came to sit in and we had no answer at all.

MVE again

We've been rubbish and getting what we deserve.

Didn't look a foul but Da Silva made the wrong decision there, they'd pushed up so punt it