Dreadful game. But as I surmised with a mate beforehand who thought an entertaining 3-2 would be the outcome I reckoned it would be a scruffy victory. It was that and fortunate too.
We weren’t terrible really but equally we weren’t great. We’re a team without our beat 3 players out to injury and it really shows.
Unless UE can weave some magic I think we’ll struggle.
Yes, I'd agree with all of this. Clearly, it is fantastic that we won and have moved further clear of the teams behind us but it was a wretched game.
We are missing key players as has been said but I'm not sure that this alone completely explains the slowness of our play, how we seem to be playing with increasing conservatism and caution. So many passes go backwards from positions on the pitch that really don't require them.
A case in point was when our kick off for the second half was played back to Martinez without Brighton touching it. We are playing with fear it seems to me.
I appreciate that we are not at our most confident but we allowed a much more out of sorts Brighton to grow into the game and take some degree of control in the second half.
We need to try to insert some tempo and speed into our play because we won't win many more games this season playing like that for sure.
