In theory, with them playing 4-2-4 we should have had them over ran in midfield if we'd managed to break the high block they employed. However what resulted was a succession of one-two tippy tappy between Soyuncu and Amartey for large swathes of the first half. I think we really missed Evans' influence here because it's hard to imagine the same thing would have happened with him in the starting lineup. He surely would have been bellowing out instructions to the midfield who really needed to work much harder out of possession looking to create space and make themselves available. Even when we spread it out wide to the full backs the ball just got recycled back again and again and it was an endless cycle of cluelessness. At least the Perez red card spared us from more of that mind numbing shit..
Soyuncu's lackadaisical gaff just summed up the general approach to the game, quite half arsed, not a lot of effort and no concentration. Literally nobody came out of that with any credit.