I agree we could do with a good forward like Austin. But the get stuck in bit has to be done by all the team. As you say Burnley did their homework. But all of them got stuck in. Wallace and Patterson, their two wide men chased, harried and out battled us. Mcann in the middle picked up everything.
I'll give Leicester credit for doing us tactically, they saw our weaknesses and chose to attack them. Burnley, despite having the most inform striker in the division decided to play anti football and rely on us making cock up after cock up with terrible passing. It's dire to watch and we said exactly the same thing about Watford last season when we won. Some of those Burnley players have been there for ages and approach the game the same way every time we play them regardless of how our team plays at the time, and did so even before we got promoted when we were capable of beating them.
Is that we want for English football? For anti football teams like Burnley to be given credit and for all teams to have to adopt the 'big ugly ****er up front' approach to scoring goals? Presumably you, like everyone else, complains when England can't match the other nations technically at a major tournament? Don't you see the link there?
Fryatt would not have changed anything on saturday. He missed easier chances last season himself. Our main problem was midfield. It was wrong from the start and only got anything going after changes were made. IMO, SB should have gone with 2 from Mckenna, Evans, Meyler from the start in place of Koren and Olifinjana. Burnley did us by out thinking us tactics wise.
Burnley got their tactics spot on and you have to give them credit. As for missing Fryatt, we definitely lack a goal poacher and this is something that will hopefully be addressed in January. I thought Simpson looked tired and maybe should be benched tomorrow but I said that against Barnsleh and then he scored that goal against Wolves!
Textbook Matthew Fryatt goal today dummying the keeper and rolling it along the ground in the centre of the goal, as easy as you like. Textbook.
