OK so we are 2-0 up and looking to close the game out.
71 min Sub #1 Kean off for Coleman - Kean is done himself in, good job him. Puts a defender with fresh legs on the pitch and lets Sidibe move further forward , reduces the chance of a mistake at the back.
83 min Sub #2 Bernard off for Davies - much like Kean, Bernard has run all over the place. Davies is the only other midfielder on the bench and has covered for Bernard before on the left. 10 minutes left with added time likely
88 min Walcott off for Niasse - There's likely 5 mins left and we are 2-0 up. we need to offload Niasse and the chances of a deal are more likely if he is playing. its a forward for a forward as Sidibe is in left midfield so no harm done.
We have 2 mins of the 90 left and 11 professionals on the pitch against a team who took their only striker off at 78 min.
How did we let 2 goals in?
I'm not sure the subs contributed much to the goals certainly the 3 players that came off would not have changed the outcome of those 2 goals.
Goal #1 Pickford flaps at it badly, Mina follows the ball out and leaves the man he is marking - he should have been there to get a head in the way bravely or do enough to put a CB off when executing an overhead technique.
Goal #2 Davies misjudges the flight of the ball. Calvert Lewin gets his head to a shot but heads downward into the path of the Newcastle players in the 6 yard box. Delph and Schniederlin are watching. Pickford is effectively removing himself from play by being over the goal line.
Both goals were Pickford errors with a lot of help from his team mates but neither should have been happening at all. We had been playing square passess across the back and with 2 DCM's all night and yet could not do that for 5 minutes at the end. Pathetic.
