I think as teams see how poor we are, they'll come at us more

and they'll do well with that.

Early in the season, teams sat back, and that gave nunez more time on the ball, and without much pressure on, our dismal passing doesn't show up.

If any pressure is put on our midfield / defence, the ball goes back to "safety" and gets hoofed. Totally pointless with Pukki upfront and Sargent is hardly a target man.

So yes, I agree with your assessment.

I actually thought we looked better with gibbs at right back than we did with aarons there, gibbs looked to play the ball forward, aarons very rarely does. He seems to almost always cut inside / play it back to the CBs.

4-3-3 is a stupid formation with our personnel.

If Alex Neil has got his Stoke side pressing like he did Preston, and by all accounts Sunderland, we're in for a long afternoon. Again. I'd love us to play with the intensity he demands from his squad.

Posted By: SimonOTBC, Oct 26, 09:43:26