Posted this in another thread, but posting it again here because I can. Fight me:
agree with this, but more often than not, we’ve largely had to field the same side that had us in the relegation zone under Silva at one point last season. I’m not saying all our players are terrible and the shackles could probably be eased a bit, but there’s no doubt in my mind the football being served up isn’t because that’s how we want to play, but most of the time it’s out of necessity.
Beginning of the season we played some of the best attacking football we’ve played in ages, then we hit a slump, injuries started happening to key players too frequently and we had to tighten things up.
We looked to have more about us going forward in the Palace game but for some bad finishing and good goalkeeping. But once again on Monday, we had to play about 6/7 defenders, and our bench were all up past their bedtime. I’m not sure what kind of football we can expect to be playing under such circumstances.