Thought it was a good first half, we should have probably scored more and their goal was pretty fortunate with Dubravka misreading it. Rafa gave that gravel eating toe rag Dyche a tactical lesson in the first half in all. After Ritchie’s sitter I think we sat a bit too deep which we are prone to doing but that’s also more telling of the quality of the players as it was often poor passing which turned the ball over rather than any tactical desire. I know we were looking to counter but I think large parts of the second half we were allowing too much.
Ritchie has a good game, missing the sitter aside, but was clearly blowing out his arse at the end. Kenedy has a good game defensively but still feel he holds onto the ball a bit too long. Not sure what others thought but I thought Diame was poor, he put in a good shift defensively but as soon as he won the ball he’d misplace or make the wrong pass most of the time, it’s like he doesn’t even seem to pick his head up half the time.
The subs showed how desperate we are for players. Hayden came on, did little aside give away a couple of needless free kicks. Joselu, I genuinely don’t see the point in him coming on, he has absolutely nothing in his game, I think it’d be a little unfair to say his chance was a sitter but he should at least be hitting the target, no idea what he was doing as he watched Hart push further and further into our half either the fucking dozy bastard.
Overall the game underlined what a clueless wanker that idiot Burnley fan coming on here predicting they would batter us is. They’re a very poor side, they basically had no tactic beside lump it up to the two up top from kick off.