What a mess, start to finish. Why does Maresca change 5 players just when we started to look like a Team ? Yet again a pretty poor team beats Chelsea with no more than 5 across the back and non stop work as their tactics. Maresca offered nothing tactically. Even with the useless Delap alone up front, not once was a ball played over the line of 5 for him to run onto. Instead we tried going through them and were always repelled by a block or we simply passed to their defence with one of the dozens of dreadful passes. Then there was the third goal, like something from a you- tube comedy video. Not much more to say really, surely our low point of the season so far, now every other lower Team will play the Leeds way now because we showed them it works.
For me Palmer should have started at 10, Garnacho on the left, Estevao on the right with Joao Pedro up front. Delap isnt it, and despite improvement, and grabbing an assist, I think Garnacho is the superior player over Gittens. We were told Palmer was fit to play against Arsenal, he doesnt feature, then he comes in as a sub 65 minutes into a game against Leeds....I know we dont want to rush him back, but if he was fit to play against Arsenal, why is our best player by a mile being benched for the following game after not featuring? I really do believe it is Maresca that is holding this team back. His tactics hit a brick wall, literally, when we face a low block and/or 5 at the back.
