I wouldn’t have taken Johnson off. He was playing well and if you’re going to win with 10 men, you need players who can counterattack with pace.
The Udogie foul has completely changed the game...we are panicking in very department. We can't play a high line with Dier and Royal but seem to be doing so. And our passing has gone
Is it me or has our usually high line got even higher since we went down to 10 men and lose two more to injury?
outnumbered and now missing 3 key players + a wide pacey forward. Any team would be struggling in this situation. But the squad is not where it should be (as per usual), so once again we’re not making things easy for ourselves. our luck against Chelsea… unbelievable. And to think it looked like it’d finally changed in the first 15 mins.
Clear elbow by James, nothing given. Oliver lost control of this after about 3 minutes. Poundland Clattenburg.
Regardless of what you think of how the ref has approached this game, letting it get to us in the way it has (here’s looking at you, Romero) was inexcusable. We have a serious job on our hands here.