How many times today did poor Ross get the ball outside the box held it with defenders all around him - no one made a run other than the 2 slide rule passé Jelly , and KM both cocked up! we need a striker who can score Victor looks better than what we have at the moment!!!!!
Do you know why that happened? Jelavic was marked out by one or two men, so they just shadowed his run, and the rest of the midfield were so deep and behind the drive of Barkley that they could just stick two men in front of him.
Invariably, Ross had three options:
1 - Coleman or Baines late run round the outside, but they were tracked well all game.
2 - A Hollywood pass into the striker on a pinpoint.
3 - A pot shot from range.
Barkley was good today, but as the second half progressed you could see him really trying to pick the killer ball and not playing instinctively.
The reason Barkley and Deulofeu are standing out so much right now is because they're just by and large going out there and playing footy - the rest of them are thinking about what to do too much and it's easy for sides to defend against.
On the flip side, we're very rarely out of position defensively either and there's no excessive movement in midfield, so we're defensively sound!
