Like all blues really disgusted by the way we threw that game away, abject defending and hardly any organization, especially at the back. Sick of stupid individual errors and switching off, especially at set pieces. We have probably the tallest centre back pairing in the league and yet we were continually beaten in the air, I was a bag of nerves every time a cross came in, at corners, free kicks and even throw ins.
Apart from Delph, (who also made a mistake), we have no leaders, think also we were missing the combination of the much maligned Bernard, who apart from his workrate, creativity, does a lot of covering for the attack minded Digne and dovetails exceptionally with him. This system isn't working, it needs tweaking, especially away from home. Sigurdsson was invisible again yesterday, Schneiderlin was awful, hasn't got the legs for this league.
Thought Kean looked a little lost, be needs help up front if we are going to play him, until he finds his feet. If that means another striker next to him so be it.
One thing has to change, we were easily the better team yesterday, had the better players, more possession and played the better football, but we lost. The reason we lost for me is, apart from bad defending and mistakes at the back, for me we allowed ourselves to be bullied, they out fought us and won nearly all of the duels across the park, in the air and on the ground. If you want to win the match, then firstly you have to win the battle, especially away from home, against a hostile crowd and a generous homer referee. I would give Silva to the end of the season to work it out, this team still needs to settle a fair few new signings bedding in, plus we can not just keep sacking managers and selling their players and buying more, it's a vicious circle.