This apart form Tiote who should be nowhere near the pitch for this tbh.
Fair point. I wouldn't really want Anita out there either, tbh.
Ben Arfa with Sissoko deeper?
Today shows just how wrong he's been so far this season, if we were used to playing the way we did today we would be much higher up the league than we currently are.
Why couldn't he have had this attitude from the start?
We must find a place for him, even when Ben Arfa is back because he is a class little players who needs games. I can only think of one wasted pass in the whole game and that is some going considering how often he was on the ball.
Excuse predictor for today if things don't go our way. I'm going for the easy couple from the standard Pardew book of "Excuses for Dummies", fatigue carried over from Thursday or/and we didn’t have certain players, some will fall for it.
I can't remember everything that happened in every game last season but didn't we score in the last 10 minutes against Wigan? If my memory is correct then that's far from a comfortable win.
I didn't feel comfortable away to Chelsea either until we got the 2nd well into injury time even though Chelsea were playing as if the season had already finished.