Sigmund did nothing wrong other than save our arses on more than two occassions, one of three that did deserve the MOTM award.
Free header set piece, free header Culina - that in itself raises questions about how our central defensive pairing performed. Siggy throws himself about but positionally he gets caught out too often and his cracking pace doesn't always help him out of those positions.
Bring on North...
100% agree. The centre-halves had no organisation together, which was odd given Durante and Sigmund have played a fair bit together. Sigmund seemed to have made up with a couple of last ditch efforts, coupled with the ball getting stuck in the mud a couple of times, but really... we were skinned badly through the middle.
The critical moment for me was when we brought Hearfield on. He was pwned out there in the worst possible way. His positioning was some of the worst I've seen from a professional right back. Troy is obviously a great talent going forward, but in those conditions I thought his substitution on was one of the more foolish managerial acts of Ricki's brilliant career. Porter absolutely destroyed him in that last 15 minutes. On a dry pitch, he probably doesn't get shown up that bad, but in wet conditions, defensive technique and positional awareness are crucial for your back four. I know that Manny's done well at central defensive midfielder and that collectively Brown and Lia weren't going that well, but perhaps with the benefit of hindsight I would suggest that Troy is more of an attacking right back option rather than one to shore up a 2 goal advantage and keep your edge of the box devoid of threat in dangerous conditions.
