Tbh I was happier , but not happy , that on each side we used diagonals into the front wide areas to relieve the frontline final third pressure to me that was an obvious choice all those other tunes that we did not even manage to do .
We also broke up the flow and hence threat of waves of attacks with a little guile too so ok that’s a game management positive .
The ease that they gave it being territorially on top of us though is the primary problem in all of this and around the 20min mark McGregor really begin to drive into us we were defending wide areas with clusters but he then started to read that and make himself , or Johnson , and then both, the additional player(s) in the movement and that was enough to undo us at the opener just a numbers overload . We clustered in there and they worked it out and punched through the centre in phase 2 as our defenders most notably Davies stood flat and deep in the penalty box .
The 2nd was right after obviously and it was nothing situation other than CCV having zero pressure and JL doing the unimaginable .
The defining minutes in there goal advantage followed by JL making another grand fukup at the red card .
Had we got to HT 2-1 and Eleven who knows how it would have panned but I fully agree we had no flow no rhythm and almost no connections n that 1H other than basic linkups and crosses
