How can you go from that first half to that second half?
Unofrtunately, some of the blame has to lie on Kingy. He got the big decisions wrong. Their subs made an impact and ours didn’t. I don’t think we needed to bring Lascelles on and go 3 centre halves.
That said. The players got all the fundamentals wrong. We were hanging on to a 3-0 lead for 45 minutes. Constantly just giving them the ball back. Putting ourselves under pressure. The minute they scored we absolutely shit our pants. There’s no other team in the 92 that would’ve surrendered that half time lead. It’s not even the 3-0 at half time that’s bothering me. It’s 3-1 up with 14 minutes (stoppage time included) left that’s the issue here. Stupid basic brain dead errors. Thomas doesn’t need to make that foul. Begovic doesn’t need to come for the ball for their second. Why is their left back completely unmarked in the 6 yard box for them to equalise.
It’s so disappointing, yet so expected. You could see it coming as soon as they scored their first.
From the best first half performance we’ve had all season to the absolute worst. Time is running out.