I believe we have largely accepted this team lacks ability as evidenced by fairly regular errant first touches, inconsistent accuracy of first time passes, difficulty retaining the ball under pressure etc.
We have accepted the team is poorly coached in possession of the ball, as shown by the poor spacing, the lack of a pattern in possession, lack of invention and ambition regarding off the ball runs.
At least we finally seem to have a fairly settled first 11 after 2+ years of Jihadball.
What is baffling is the sheer number of 50-50’s we lose on a consistent basis, even when the player we have going in should be favourite to win or we have 2 players on 1 opponent who still often gets away. It happened far too often today and shouldn’t be accepted.
At one point, they lumped a long ball to CDK against Bremer who should’ve been favourite, Bremer got brushed aside and then CDK was allowed to casually hold the ball up with no teammate initially in sight, when he was surrounded by 4 players.
The fitness excuse should now be eliminated with 1 game a week, it boils down to a simple lack of hunger and desire amongst weak minded individuals coached by a lifeless, lethargic fossil.