Nothing not known that weve swapped gold for turd. A few idiots were pleased to.see rafa go thats the weird part.
Was an interesting performance from Bruce. Strange way to play Hayden from the get go and then I particularly liked the part where Willems was brought on for Shelvey, having obviously not been issued with clear instructions that he should be switching with Ritchie to LWB. Had to watch him lumbering confused around the centre of the park whilst Bruce panicked, before he finally got the message of what he wanted across... Only for Willems to promptly screw up once he had switched to LB, probably due to already looked puffed from 3-4minutes sprinting around in midfield. Then to bring on ASM for for Longstaff, leaving us with only one CM on the field and pushing Almiron further back who had looked bright in a supporting forward role... Looked a good deal like managerial incompetence which has ultimately cost the game.
Of course ... his track record speaks for itself and i fully expect something daft at norwich ... i can already see why fans at sunderland and villa hated him
Shelvey should never play for us unless weve got the possesion btw... how can anyone not know that ??? Serious question...
We certainly looked worse when he came off. Helped make us tick early on. Would have liked to see him in a deep-lying role where his lack of pace would be less an issue, with Hayden and Longstaff central.
He made one pass to Joelinton and it was sublime, like a wedge shot over the defenders heads, should have made more of it TBH
Yeah, I thought I'd imagined all that so its good someone else noticed it too. Maximin looked positive though, his little nip up from the floor after he slipped was cool too!
Doubt that. They'll sack him this season like they did Schteve if things are going too badly. They'll no doubt wait too long to do it though as they aren't ones for learning from previous. Anyway, too early to be judging Bruce, poor as today was. I have very low expectations of what he'll achieve based on previous clubs, but he is going to have had very small input into overall performance levels as of yet.
3 weeks and we gift goals and cant string two passes together.. its going to get worse next week... norwich can play a bit.
Plural? No, this is a whiplash reaction, even though it's easily understandable. I'm as dissatisfied with the performance and the appointment of Bruce as anyone, but you can never judge how things are going to be after one competitive game.