I wasn't able to go as on holiday but watched the extended highlights this morning. MM was rightly tearing his hair out in the post match interview pointing out both Garnett and Jackson had played Championship level as defenders and so were coaching correctly but they could not control what was done on the pitch. What on earth Manny thought he was doing for their first goal is anyone's guess. It was clear that AA was his man as Nelson was taking the other guy stood on edge of the box and they both clearly knew that. He went tightish to AA and then when AA gave him the slightest of pushes he decided to wander forward 2 yards into no mans land and simply stand there and not once did he look back to see what AA was doing. We can all accept players make a lot of mistakes on the ball at this level but that simply was unforgiveable IMO. Talking of unforgiveable ditto Potter for the penalty - it was so blatant it was unreal.
On the positive side there looked to be some nice passing and interplay but we have to allow for the fact that WW clearly went into their shells protecting what they had so we had plenty of space 2nd half. With defending like that however, we will continue to lose games even if we are the better side for most of the game.
On the positive side there looked to be some nice passing and interplay but we have to allow for the fact that WW clearly went into their shells protecting what they had so we had plenty of space 2nd half. With defending like that however, we will continue to lose games even if we are the better side for most of the game.