Our defensive shape was awful, period.bubbles1966 wrote:
The defensive shape on the goal is awful.
Diop and Ogbonna are not in line which is why Murray has a 5-10 yard start behind Diop; it's also why he makes a hash of a basic piece of defending. He's coming at the ball from the wrong starting point.
No discipline ( in terms of alignment), no leadership......no Balbuena.Thats the clue.
Watching other teams, including Brighton, all weekend, each of them had far, far better shape in terms of a back 4, 3 yard gap, and then another 3 or 4 midfielders in front of them.
Everyone esle was defending, by and large, as a unit, we on the other hand looked like a bunch of strangers slung together 5 minutes before kick off.
Brighton could have had 4 or 5 goals, a better team would have.