Well, we probably didn’t deserve to lose that (palace were pretty shit), but we didn’t deserve to win it either.
The first half was awful, we passed back to the defence multiple times when we had the chance to get a cross in. The midfield gave the forwards nothing to work with.
The goal we conceded, Donk just ran past the player like a complete amateur, Boly didn’t get the block where it looked to me like he should have done, and Patricio maybe should have done better. Poor goal to concede.
We only started to create anything after that when Adama came on, and Jose went close with a header.
plus points - Neto and Jose looked decent in the build up play, Adama was lively when he came on and Kilman had a really good game.
negative points - Coady can’t defend one on one at all. Moutinho isn’t at the same level that he used to be any more, he can’t keep starting games. Semedo played okay but doesn’t have a left foot so a lot of moves down the left broke down. Pod was really poor most of the game and didn’t really contribute. Nuno’s tactics if it was him driving that awful display were bad, we can’t keep passing backwards all the time.
And then there’s Leander dendoncker - he was poor defensively today, slow to react, not winning headers, his passing was shocking - and then you add the usual awfulness in the opposition third and have to ask what the point is in him being on the pitch? I’d be dropping him for otasawie now, he couldn’t possibly be any worse