Weird game. Considering with how we started and the chances they had during the game I strangely felt quite comfortable all night. Only an idiotic mistake from Vlad cost us in the end, but Lloris was majestic.
Stambouli looked good to me, Bentaleb was a real mixed bag. Sloppy touch straight from kick off got us off to a poor start. Chiriches was shambolic throughout. Not sure what's wrong with him, it was a bad mistake, you could write it off but he gets away with 3 or so more similar errors throughout the game.
Perhaps the romanian posters can shed some light as to why he's so erratic. Is that just him?
Kane was the only one who looked like he wanted to make a difference.
I actually feel sorry for Paulinho now. It's clear his future is elsewhere now, shunted out on the right was a weird move. His confidence is gone. Soldado? Did some ok things, but we are just not suited to him. Townsend frustrates the hell out of me. Blind alleys, wrong decisions throughout, he tries but he could be so much more.
I thought Fazio was actually quite good.
Wow. What can you say about that. Another horrific display and but for thd excellent Hugo, we could easily have been humiliated. We may as well enjoy him while we can because I cant see him hanging around next season with this shower of ****e.
Vlad and Paulinho just pathetic. Townsend...........blind alley..........loses ball...........shoots off target. Thats it. Soldado, well frankly I touched the ball more then he did.
Great goal from Kane but the rest was just so meh ! I just see nothing in our team at all. No structure to our play, no improvement from last year, no gameplan, no pressure, no understanding, no intensity..............nothing.
Its all just so depressing at the moment.
We'll beat Southampton or Mumorn will leave this board. I'm that confident.
We'll beat Southampton or Mumorn will leave this board. I'm that confident.
The one and two touch play along with the excellent movement from pre-season is just a distant memory now. Nobody showed for the ball tonight. Disappointing.
Demigod like goal keeping performance, lovely goal from Kane, good cameo from Dembele, a few nice touches from Soldado, em.... can't think of anything else that positive really.
I have to say, I can see another West Brom type performance again on Sunday sadly. It would have boosted so much to hold on for the win tonight and I sense Koeman and Southampton will sense blood big time now
Would have been good to get a win, but holding out for a 1-0 when we would have lost except for our MOM keeper would have masked some things. Yes, Besiktas were 'good', but everyone we seem to play is a 'good, tough, difficult' opponent it seems.
We are nailed on to lose now !
I don't think a win would have masked things; we were playing our second team against their first choice.
However, we need to feel confident that we can hold onto a lead as many wins can come about from very fine margins such as tonight. A win tonight would have been a timely confidence boost
I feel positive again about the fact we were under the cosh and we were holding out. Thanks largely to Lloris to be fair. But we are showing some resilience.
the game changed when he took Soldado off, the out ball went with him and from there on in the ball kept coming back towards Chiriches
not saying they didn't have chances before but they were interspersed with us having the ball in decent areas and giving them something to think about