Missed the first few mins, we’ve been absolutely bossed all over the park so not scapegoating, but I am on Kosta-watch and counted one solitary completed pass in the last 40 minutes (on the 20 min mark, he rolled a ball back for Talbot to hoof).
If he can’t get in behind, offer anything in defence, control the ball or hold it up to enable keeping it, then we should at least let him take the next few kick-offs that are coming to get his stats up.
We’re lucky if either of our strikers are within 5 metres of the ball at any one time. We haven’t pressed, haven’t covered space. Haven’t tried anything different with the ball. Buhagiar’s speed is completely wasted on this shit.
I mean, City are tactically set up to beat a 4-4-2, like ours. It is their tactical raison-d’être. They outnumber us in the middle every time - and we suffer - and people blame individual players and act surprised…
My Calvanism needs me to suffer through the poor implementation of an outdated system staffed by the wrong personnel guided by a coach who lacks the ability to just say “fuck it” and just put Burgess in the hole behind Le Fondre.