Nobody did enough.
The midfield, especially 1st half didn’t string 2 passes together, not Maddison, not tielemans, not ndidi, so how is that doing enough?
The whole shower was shocking against a extremely average side.
I thought they did put passes together at the start, but it was meaningless.
They played it like a team holding onto a lead and trying to kill time.
It was like watching one of those boring international games being played in 90 degrees heat.
The moment they did try a positive forward ball they were hopeless. For large parts of the 1st half you wouldn't have known Nacho and Vardy were on the pitch.
I question this teams mental strength, they have played some great football over the season and took plenty of plaudits nationwide, and been envied by many other clubs.
Unfortunately though like last season when it comes to the business end we have tailed off. The good performances are fewer and far between, and the real important games are becoming horror shows. I don't believe it's all because of fitness. Yes we have played a lot of games, but many of the EL games were picked with player management in mind.
Thomas, Choudhury and Unger featured regularly in those group games, and it was the same for the F.A.Cup until the later stages.
Last night when the game was lost and the pressure had been eradicated, they found their mojo again. Urgency, more determined, tackling and winning 50-50s, playing with purpose. But the game was gone. Where was that end performance ?
Had they started the game in that fashion, Newcastle would of seen we are a good side. It's happening too many times, we freeze and under perform when the crunch comes. They said they had learned from last season, we won't collapse like last time, well it's looking like a mirror image to me.
When they delve into the transfer market next time, I hope there is more emphasis on the players character as well as talent.
We don't want a team full of Maddisons who strut around the pitch in fancy coloured boots, we want winners, players you can rely on to give it everything game after game.
Don't kid yourselves that we are still in a good position. Teams like Liverpool won't make the same mistakes as us. We have put ourselves in the totally unnecessary position of needing to beat the top clubs to get CL. I will be delighted to be proven wrong, but nah I don't see it.