I guess there probably is an element of all those, as it's been an issue for a while, but I'd say last night it was more a case of a big, experienced lump of a striker, using all the tricks in the book, against 2 young CB's, neither of whom are particularly big or physical.Mr.Miklosko wrote: Harewood and Beattie caused us real problems and we just lost that 1st half desire slightly. We can't afford to do this against the bigger teams. Is it a lack of confidence? Cockiness? inexperience? Ineffective half time?
Once Beattie came on, he constantly roughed up Tomkins (and got away with more than he should have, imo), and won a lot of the ball. Up until that point Tomkins had barely been under threat, so once Beattie started winning those battles, it helped put them on the front foot, and us more on the back foot