Unbelievable

Aye, we played 4-4-2 at Spurs and at Fulham we had Best on the left and Shola upfront with Guthrie in midfield. Hardly representation of a failing system, in any case tonight's problem is not even bother to press them when they have the ball and Williamson keeps hoofing it to Cisse completely by passing the midfield. If we don't press teams and hoof then we are going to struggle no matter what. There's no point playing a system like this if your going to completely bypass the midfield. Ah, that'll be it then. Nothing to do with not having an outlet up top who can keep possession..

Wow, so lucky..

Hoof after hoof after hoof..

WTF Benny

Well in Davide..

Fuck, off the line

Aye. It's never nice though. Didn't you say the formation was good regardless of the outcome? Predicted a defeat all week. Said it was nice to see us try something different even if we still lose. Even if it leads to us getting bumraped for 90 minutes..? Er, clearly not. I don't know what point you're trying to make. Not you particularly Dave, but there has been a huge craving for 4-3-3, yet some of our worse displays last season have come from playing 4-3-3 (Fulham away, Spurs away), and we look absolutely horrible again today. I'm sorry, but we just don't look comfortable at all with just the one focal point up top, especially playing it out of defense.

Phew..

Aye. It's never nice though. Didn't you say the formation was good regardless of the outcome? Predicted a defeat all week. Said it was nice to see us try something different even if we still lose. Even if it leads to us getting bumraped for 90 minutes..?

Cisse FFS

Aye. It's never nice though. Didn't you say the formation was good regardless of the outcome?

Have you seen the pre match thread after 7pm?

Another 4-3-3 disaster performance in the making right here..

Fully deserved..

That's better..

We're not at the races at all..

Phew..

Urgh.. Different formation, same old long ball shit..

Just can't keep hold of the ball..

Shit Colo

We're very sloppy in defense so far.. Need to wake up sharpish.

Our set pieces

Jelavic limps back on..

Thank fuck for that..

Sloppy in midfield..