We passed the ball better last night than I've seen in a long time, first half I think they'd definitely been told to keep it on the deck more. Biggest problem was we'd play it out from defence through midfield and then get to the edge of their area and pass it back to the defence. There was no movement up to from Davies N'gog or the wingers. Eagles is well worth his place in the team he's been our best player so far, but it's neither his nor Lee's game to get in behind the back four and put a ball in, Petrov did it when he came on but he's the only one, Lee seems too slow/disinterested at the moment, I hope this is due to the injury.
Mark Davies had a good game he used the ball well and seemed to be looking for it more often than normal, which meant he wasn't disappearing for such long periods, again though problem was he obviously doesn't like shooting (the whole team didn't seem too keen last night), and nobody was making a run for him the movement from N'gog and Davies really was appalling. Spearing looked good with him, but Andrews looks far too slow possibly because of his injury, we don't press enough anyway when we don't have the ball and he can't keep up.
Mears was appalling, Alonso marginally better, I haven't seen a replay of the penalty incident so I don't know if he was at fault or unfortunate, his positioning's pretty poor defensively though. Mills and Knight were okay, but they both need a partner to keep them concentrating and in the right position, we really miss a leader back there. Mills played some great diagonal balls, which created some decent chances last night. Bogdan was okay, but he still worries me to be honest.
Petrov looked lively when he came on, couple of great deliveries nobody could get onto and at least he tried to take his full back on. My biggest problem was Coyle putting Afobe on over Sordell, who's confidence must be shattered at the moment. Im not a fan of Afobe I don't see how he's any better than Sordell and Coyle's stunting Sordell's development by making him 4th choice when he should be starting alongside N'gog. At least then we'd have some pace and movement up front instead of waiting for a set piece to look as if we may score, every goal since Crawley has been off a set piece.
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