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Kind of agree we should have taken our chances but I also think them scoring was coming for over twenty minutes and he made the wrong subs. He should have brought King on for me push them back. Or even Godfrey to CB and Holgate to rb and Coleman in front of him to stem the flow down that side. The subs he made encouraged them as did sitting back but I suspect the players are as much to blame for that.
No I agree with that, but we weren't 4 or 5 up, so it's irrelevant isn't it? I don't mean that in a sarky way, I mean just literally, it's irrelevant. We should have had the game sewn up but we didn't, so we had to see it out, and I just didn't think the subs or tactics were right to allow us to do that. I just don't like it, i've been saying it since the Brighton game last season, and we still do it almost every time we go ahead. Even when we get away with it it's usually by the skin of our teeth, I just don't understand why he keeps doing it. Obviously I can only comment on what I know, if Coleman was injured then obviously he had to come off (although i'd still say going to a back 4 with Holgate at right back would have been the far more logical solution) but as there's been no suggestion that's the case I can't really factor it in. I'm also a little bit uncomfortable with the idea of players just asking to come off when they aren't actually injured. Particularly if the same doesn't apply to all players.
I agree but it's a pattern as is not being able to control games we have seen it all season it's on both the players and manager. I tend to err on the players because it's still not his squad and he is has a long injury list. But he also has to work on a framework where we can dominate team's at home and put them to bed. Scoring and hanging onto a goal isn't sustainable.
Then don't you think "let's sit back on a 1-0 lead for the rest of the match" is a problem? How many times have we gotten the lead and shrunk back into ourselves allowing wave after wave of pressure? Sometimes, like Leicester, it works. Often, it doesn't. It requires players to be absolutely tuned in and aware. One slip up and that's that. Just like we could have won yesterday we also could have lost with how easy Palace found it to just walk through our defense in the last 20. THAT is on Carlo. It's happened entirely too many times for that to be "oh, the players can't handle the pressure". That HAS to be his instructions to sit further back.
He made the decisions after we missed the chances. Yes we should have scored them, but we didn't and that was the situation he had to deal with.
My theory is he doesn't trust them to play open football like we did in the first ten or eleven games, so plays more defensively when we go ahead but it often backfires and isn't sustainable. So in this case it's a combination of manager, substitutions, personnel and tactics.
Oh, I'm sorry, so we went completely at them in the 70th minute on? Must have missed THAT part. Far as I can remember we had one more attempt after our goal and that was that.
So, you link me to something that shows we only had one attempt after we scored and until they scored and that...somehow proves we "went for it" after the goal?
