The hoof ball only started when Lambert buggered up our formation and tactics by replacing the midfield with strikers. It's like an 8 year old playing Championship Manager (or whatever it's called these days) with the logic being as simple as 'more strikers = more goals'.
I've been frankly astounded by Lambert's apparent lack of tactical knowledge. I expected much more from someone with a Champions League Winners medal.
Despite going a goal down last night if we'd kept our shape and style of play we'd have won that game by enough to make the final. I have no doubt about that based on the crazy number of chances we had first half. Instead. panic set in, from the manager through to the players, and the result was 40 minutes of long ball.
