First half was good, no complaints, even defended well and compared to recent horror shows we were competetive for most of 1st 45 minutes. Although Gakpo should have at least been challenged, his goal was top class - Mads wouldn't have got there either.
Second half - same old shit and the score line could have been even worse.
ManCity most be slobbering in anticipation at the easiest win they will get this season.
We weren't complete shit in the second half. We looked much, much better during that game than we have done for a long while.
Don't get me wrong, we were still making stupid, avoidable errors but there was at least some decent passages of play at times.
We are missing Ndidi terribly and that's causing us huge problems in terms of breaking up play. Soumare is doing his best and although he is much, much better this season we still see moments of Soumareness which aren't covered by anyone.
It's Buonanotte being left out that is the strange one for me. I've no idea why our only real creative player is being shit out unless we have already made some sort of agreement with Brighton for a different player. With Ricardo being out he's got very few options but to continue with Justin unless he puts Choudhury there but would he be any better? Could Okoli play there? We have to try something.
Let's be honest even if he manages to get a 2 CBs, a RB, a LB a CM and a Striker in, which of course is impossible, we'd still be looking at a fair few games before they all started to come together as a unit.
Our only real hope is that Palace, Wolves or Everton implode and we can continue to be slightly better than Southampton and Ipswich. It's a massive ask.