I´ve worked in the game for a number of years and cannot believe the standard of our game management against Palace. It was like watching schoolyard football. When Palace equalised, of course it was disappointing, but we still had over an hour to go and win the game against an inferior side. Instead we hit the panic button and went for broke, allowing ourselves to get hit on the break and playing into Palace´s hands. The same thing happened against Chelsea. Every time we got back into the game, we insisted on reckless attacking football, again playing right into Jose´s hands instead of drawing breath and maybe trying to eek out a point.
Our players are excellent. Sure they made mistakes on Sunday, but in my opinion, the 2nd and 3rd goals were the result of panic at being too thin at the back and being overly gung-ho in attack. We are showing absolutely no patience at all in trusting the belief that we can go on and win a game or get back into a game (as against Chelsea). A 2-1 win in the last minute would have done me nicely yesterday, but we are throwing points away, not through bad defending per se, but poor management of situations within the games that breeds panic throughout the team. This comes from the management team I´m afraid.
Our players are excellent. Sure they made mistakes on Sunday, but in my opinion, the 2nd and 3rd goals were the result of panic at being too thin at the back and being overly gung-ho in attack. We are showing absolutely no patience at all in trusting the belief that we can go on and win a game or get back into a game (as against Chelsea). A 2-1 win in the last minute would have done me nicely yesterday, but we are throwing points away, not through bad defending per se, but poor management of situations within the games that breeds panic throughout the team. This comes from the management team I´m afraid.
