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It's looking as though that loss to Villa is really going to cost us.
This is really poor. Downing isn't offering much in attack, Enrique has been pathetic. I'd have much rather seen Enrique go for Sterling to have both him and Suso on the wings and Downing at left back.
There is no drive to our attack and I don't know where the goals will come from.

Cant wait for BR`s excuse

same excuse as benitez, hodgson and dalglish as none of them have won in the league at stoke .

No excuse, we made the wrong decisions, Stoke stuck to their game plan and they deserved to win. In a footballing sense you may argue that we were the better side but Stoke don't play football, they play direct and they solid defensively and in that sense they dominated today's game. The substitutions were very wrong for me but it is only one game. A win at Qpr is necessary before the window opens.

Pisspoor. Did okay in the first half but were clueless and absolutely awful in the second half.

Winning here was always going to be a massive task, but the way we surrendered our early lead so quickly was really weak.

For a supposed 'pass and move team', we sure as hell can't pass. Do they even practise passing under pressure in training?

Our entire back line was awful today. This performance was worse than the Villa one for me, in that game is was the final pass letting us down, here it was the passes in every area of the pitch.

Seems to be a lot of wrong decisions lately, starting to feel uninspired by BR`s style of play, seems to be one step forward then two steps back, 9 wins in 19 isnt good enough.

Suarez doing all the work, nothing he can do to save us, he is only one player. Surrounded by rubbish.

defence really let us down today but some of the [oops] people on here are saying is unbelievable. Did you all watch a different game to me or what??

Exactly right, we didn't deserve to win today and if we are considered to be a top 4 club again any time soon we better start working on our passes. Thought our best chance of the game came through Suso so I'm not sure why he was subbed at the half. Agger had to do both his and Enrique's job all day. Downing offered basically nothing in attack. Gerrard has some decent moments but he's definitely not the Gerrard of old. Not sure where Sterling was when he came on, changed nothing in my opinion. Shelvey is supposed to be our driving midfielder but he kept pushing out wide. No one in the hole and when Suarez dropped back In there we lost our striker. Would kill for a play like Christian Eriksen right now. I think Sturridge will be brilliant with his pace and direct running. January can't come quick enough!