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Abysmal defending.

Aye, I know it's tough with City pressing as well as they do but the lack of composure on the ball has been frustrating so far to say the least.

That's a bad, bad challenge by Murphy to be fair.

Come on man, Jonas Olsson and Nathan Dyer?

You can be encouraged all you want...the facts are we lost both games without scoring There is absolutely no point in being tight at the back if we cannot score for s***............teams that don't score many goals go down simple Boro had a fabulous defensive record last year but scored the lowest in the division...guess what happened This is nonsense. We have scored the same number of goals (16) as 5th-placed Burnley who, in contrast to our figure of 27, have only conceded 12 goals. That's the joint 2nd-best defensive record in the league and living proof that a solid defence should be paramount for a side with our resources. We have also scored the same number of goals as Huddersfield, who were gifted a 4-goal gubbing yesterday, and more than Palace, Brighton, West Brom and Swansea. Only 1 goal less than Southampton and West Ham. I'm not denying that we lack quality as an attacking outfit, but the number of goals that we've scored is arguably commensurate with where we ought to be aiming for in the league (lower mid-table). The number of individual defensive errors - which has been worrying over the past few weeks - is what is costing us more.

West Ham 1 up.

That was worse today. Still think the Mooy goal he simply bought the dummy rather than poor play. p*ss poor for today's goal. For the Mooy goal, Merino had Clark and Hayden behind him as cover and without a man; I genuinely think he let Mooy go because we had men spare. Yesterday was inexcusable mind - both Lejeune and Clark were pre-occupied and he absolutely had to go with Hazard.

Ritchie is a fucking idiot. He's been beaten by that pass inside all game.

Agreed. He's made a couple of excellent tackles though.

Why is Clark booked for that when Kante got off scot free 2 mins earlier?

What's Mbemba doing there?

Is Ritchie playing left back? Mbemba, Clark and Lejeune look like they're playing in a 3.

Keeping him fresh maybe? Not had a lot of minutes.

Clark nowhere near Robson-Kanu there.

He's predominantly right-footed as well which is a plus among our group of wingers. The only negative is that Ritchie was moved out onto the left yesterday to accommodate, where he was relatively peripheral.

The match hinged quite significantly on the Smalling goal and Hayden missing that chance.

Howay Mitro.

Embarrassing defending there.

That looked a sore one to be fair.

Good effort.

Done alright IMO, offered more than Ritchie. Improvement on his last showing.

Gayle's been good today to be fair. Looked like he was dead and buried a few weeks ago.

Poor tracking from Hayden there.

Hayden man!

He's been excellent so far but Lejeune should've done better there.