wow just wow, what a load of rubbish that was! 10 shots on target and all at the keeper! surely even the worst striker in the world knows to hit it to one side or another! Once again we create plenty of chances and then see Stein and Jeremy waste them! Do we not have anyone to take penalties? Can't believe we manage to lose that!
Because across the board we are not good enough. Nearly, but not quite.
I don't mean to dis-agree, and it's all down to the interpretation of what you meant there (...) but it's not across the board, as I see it (...) we did a good job of creating enough chances to win that comfortably (...) but two players butchered most of them and another guy made (another) dumb mistake at the other end and put us behind (...) that's 8 players doing a decent job and three letting us down. that's fixable. Ernie is doing a fine job getting us playing a good game of football.
I agree, and more so, I take a lot of positives from the game tonight. I think we are moving in the right direction, tactically.
Ernie seems to have fixed the midfield, which was our Achilles' heel in the past. Lia, Muscat, Riera and even Hicks played well, although as many pointed out, a better team would have made a mincemeat of us tonight - CCM would get a B minus school grade tonight.
Defence was a bit of a question mark, but not terribly so - Siggy had a howler with the goal and nearly cost us another identical one with yet another chested ball to the opposition attacker.
I do not think we would have had a different result with Carlos on the park, except for the penalty assuming he would have taken it.
With our improved midfield the forward line is harshly exposed for its pedestrian quality; and that means our task in the January window can be to find a nimble, effective, self confident striker.