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Well we did trim the squad quite a bit. Getting the kind of money we did for Justin, Coady, Hermansen and McAteer was welcome and probably unexpected. Securing Monga and Page also good for the future. Realistically we could have gotten rid of Winks, Kristiansen, Soumaré and Faes too, so not doing that is obviously a blot on the record. We were never realistically getting rid of Reid, Ayew, Daka, Skipp or Vestergaard. Considering no changes at the top were made, that's probably as good as anyone could've hoped for

Thomas was awful and tightly hooked at HT. Kristiansen was a bombscare and that failed shepherding almost leading to a second Wrexham goal was particularly embarrassing, as were some of his weak headers. But he got in the way a few times with some blocks and - this is the one redeeming thing - he made overlapping runs several times, which we so badly needed. But Mav, Ayew and co. never ever utilized him even though Wrexham had completely stifled us. Choudhury waited until the 92nd minute to go forward, which says it all. I want to focus on some of the positives, because there has to be some hope. Wouldn't mind seeing Aluko, but I'd also just like to see us use the strengths of our players instead of putting them in situations where they show their frailties.

As frustrating as it can be, he was the only one doing ANYTHING past the hour mark to penetrate. He made two deep crosses to Mav, one was picked wide from a few yards out, the other led to Ayew's final corner. Mavididi deserves a bollocking as do Winks, Skipp, Choudhury and Ayew for not adapting and helping out our front three.

See, to me it looked like we were far too narrow with both wingers looking to go inside rather than stay wide or run to the byline. With no overlaps (bar VK who to his credit tried but got overlooked time and again) or decent underlaps/runs into the channel, it make us very predictable. Double up on the wingers and stay compact centrally to not leave any spaces for the midfield or striker to run into. All that is left are difficult combinations through the middle like yesterday goal or the equaliser against Oxford. And we're just not good enough to pull that off more than once a game at best.

I concede that Daka likely is the best of our so called strikers in the 9 position. It's a sad state of affairs.

James has been a positive. Let's give Ramsey a chance. Reid maybe had his best game for us? Sorting out that midfield is key to Marti (or any manager) succeeding. If Ramsey/Reid/James become consistent threats in the opposition box, it will no doubt help the wingers and strikers.

The core of the squad? Ndidi, Vardy, KDH, Hermansen had pretty major parts in that team. Not to mention having another PL winner in Albrighton at the club too. Obviously we won't be able to perform near that level when the replacements (bar maybe James) are substantially worse.

Daka's assist was a telling contribution, so I will give him that. What's the point of playing him if we don't try to counter or if they sit so deep that he can never run in behind? Both teams would probably have been better off if the respective strikers switched sides.

We can absolutely do without Skipp, Mavididi, Ayew, Hamza, Kristiansen, Vestergaard and Daka on this sort of performance. Winks was horrible after the hour mark.

Booooooo crap result, crap performance

Hahahah what a corner

Get a dodgy winner, cmon

Lol, the ONE time Hamza does support, Fats actually managed to run past his marker.

Kristiansen wtf....

He's still light years ahead of Mavididi.

Why are we constantly trying to only play it through a massively congested middle?!?! Kristiansen tries to overlap, mavididingoes backwards. Hamza doesn't cross the halfway line it feels.

Ayew doing Ayew things, holding on the ball too long and drawing a foul.

My word. Mavididi. Eyes on the effing ball man! What a delicious cross that was.

What's the point of Mavididi? He's so low on confidence, never takes anyone on. He keeps passing it backwards. At least Fatawu tries again and again.

Winks has been dreadful for the last 20 minutes.

Vestergaard, that was amateurish. Winks and Skipp nonexistant in midfield.

@hfaes Do yourself and us a favour and just stop. You've made your point about you not liking the overcritical comments made about Wout Faes and the fact you don't appreciate Leicester City fans. You're not achieving anything by going on and on about it.

£52m severance pay for Horner. Good lord...

He did the Cifuentes interview with OPA just the other day

First derby home win for them since 2-1. False dawn or sign of things to come?