Stupid and embarrassing assessment from the knee-jerk parade. Esso is right... the lad started a bit nervily but grew into the game. Had some good tackles and blocks, especially in the second half. The idiots writing him off after one game need to grow up and wise up.
The truth is... Shelvey was incredibly lucky on his first goal... he tripped over the ball twice and got two lucky bounces that allowed his final shot. The second goal was poor defending collectively... mainly because we invited them on to us. That was an experimental back four and we did well to come away with a point.
No need for the name calling and insulting other posters by calling them stupid, though Kop.
For myself I posted my concerns on our 'experimental defense' as you rightly term it, prior to the game and I’ve avoided any direct criticism of them since, because for me it was an whole team failure, and mostly at midfield imo.
You say we did well to come away with a point, I disagree, we were very, very lucky to come away with a point. We were gifted the two goals, we didn’t create them, in fact we created nothing all night, and a better team than Swansea would have banged in at least two more on top of what they got. In trying to defend last night’s performance you’re trying to defend the indefensible, particularly the second half.
Regarding Sakho I’m prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt, and a chance to prove himself over a number of games, which I hope he will do.
My jury is still out on Aspas also, but I’ve noted a number of, to say the least, indifferent performances, he needs to step up.
Moses looks to be a gem, hope he keeps it up, we need the kind of quality he showed us in a big way.
