Nothing between the teams apart from going to sleep for the goal, burrell working hard but not much else happening up front
Dembele is having a mare - have to bring Smyth on second half. Brizzle definitely targeting Esquerdinha. We really dropped our heads after their goal. Shame, we were doing well up until then.
Need to get the ball over the top of their defence for Burrell. I'd like to see him in a race with Dickie.
Flattering to deceive in attack again. 0 shots on target. We play some nice stuff getting into positions up front, then it always fizzles out with either wrong decisions, mis-hit passes or people just over-playing it and it always fizzles out to nothing. Smyth for Dembele at the half please, and if after 15 minutes we've not done any better, throw Kolli on in place of Kone.
Not much in this....apart from their goal obviously..... Think Smyth would give us more energy and also he'd do more defensive duties than Dembele who's not having the best of games....
Feels rather tough to go in at half time losing 1-0. We had some great breaks, but unfortunately could not convert them. To be honest, we did not have a single shot on target for their goalie to save.
Catching bits and pieces when I can on the stream but can’t watch properly today. Managed to catch a lovely 20 pass sequence that got nowhere near their goal ending in Dembele playing a dismal short pass that set up a counter attack.
Agree Strolls, when we have done that Burrell leaves them for dead. We haven’t always had someone there for him to give the ball though. Thought Kone has been playing a bit deep. Needs to press their defenders harder. Cookie has been great today.
Lovely play from Varane and Saito sets up Kone whose first touch is horrible and gives the defender a chance to recover.
