Possession means nothing. Just not good enough in defence or attack. Why you bring a 6ft 7 striker on and continually cross to his feet escapes me

Not fatal but time and opportunity are fast running out.

3

So obvious we have needed someone to know where the goal is we cannot expect to survive playing like this with the amount of shots on target it has gone on far to long and this will be the reason we will go down.

4

When we went up a man at Old Trafford, I thought that that might even things up better, because we have an uncanny knack for always making it look like we're down a man—and we did it again tonight.

4

Blurgh! I had high hopes we would get something out of this game. If we cannot score, then any other improvements to team structure and selection will not help! Only Alcaraz and JWP look like they have (on occasion) the wit to find the net. We crossed more today than previously but the quality was just not there. Got to get the best front 2/3 sorted out quickly. Fortunately we are still not out of it - just 5 points behind Palace in 12th.

2

Walcott - 3

0

Clear to me that Selles got it badly wrong tonight. The team at home, as we saw against Leicester, needs the fans behind them. And they're not going to get that by constantly turning over possession, passing the ball around with no threat or movement and by reselecting players who, for valid reasons, the fans have lost faith in.
There was no reaction from the crowd to going behind. But who can blame us when we see that the team could have played until Saturday and still wouldn't score.
Why focus on saving players for Spurs, when the win tonight was more realistic? I thought Selles claimed that he was only ever looking at the next game?
Instead, we blew any momentum that we had by some terrible negative and ineffective football. Please can someone ask JWP to play a forward pass? Or ask the team to move more to receive one?
Best player on the pitch tonight for me was ABK. Showed hunger and even looked to join the attack, unlike our midfield for most of the game.

4

Walcott 1.5 not on your list

2

That was painful. Lots of effort and commitment and all that guff but totally lacking any passion, pace or intelligence. Selles has surely been around long enough to realise that Diallo and Mo are simply not up to it and that Walcott is not an impact player off the bench. As such we gifted them the first half and lets face it they were pretty ordinary. Should have made changes at half time. When subs did come on I struggle to see how Lavia, Walcott and Bree will find us a goal. If we are going down we might as well go down fighting. Show a bit of passion and gamble a bit.

2

I hope the irony was not lost on anyone tonight that on an evening where we struggled to get only one shot on target, Nathan Tella was scoring a hatrick for Burnley.🤔

4

I hope the irony was not lost on anyone tonight that on an evening where we struggled to get only one shot on target, Nathan Tella was scoring a hatrick for Burnley.🤔

1