You always get the feeling with us that if we don't score in the first 20 minutes, the confidence just leaves our entire team. We were so crap today but when the chances did come, to Richarlison and Sigurdsson in particular, they were really rash with their finishes - and they are our only threats so when they're missing chances, you know we really are going to struggle.
We need to do something in January, just to give Silva a mid season boost more than anything. It's become stale and predictable and we're going nowhere as a team right now.
I'm not going to turn on Silva this season, this squad has been bang average for a long time now. From our starting 11 today, would the likes of Kenny or Calvert-Lewin get in any other 11 in the Premier league? Maybe Huddersfield and Cardiff. They aren't good enough to play for a team that has ambitions of finishing in the Top 6. Obviously that's a pipe dream right now, but it has to be the objective otherwise we're just drifting as a club, which we've been doing for a long time.
We have several players right now that just aren't performing to the required standards and we need to better options both for the starting 11 and off the bench too.