mrb85
Player Valuation: £35m
I'll go for Martinez. For not playing Barkley when he must have been chomping at the bit with the adrenalin still flowing in his veins after his winner at Swansea. I can never understand why you would weaken a team just because at some time in the future a player might be tired. If a player is tired that's the time to leave him out, not before. It was obvious from the first 20 minutes that we would miss his forward runs that commit defenders and so create space for others.
As for the other two clowns, it's a close call. Anyone can cock up but Howard made two bad mistakes, not just in playing the ball to Osman and putting him under pressure but then bringing down the attacker. Bad enough to concede and go a goal down -- to have us down to 10 men is a nightmare. Howard should have made sure in trying to retrieve the situation that he didn't make things worse instead.
As for the other two clowns, it's a close call. Anyone can cock up but Howard made two bad mistakes, not just in playing the ball to Osman and putting him under pressure but then bringing down the attacker. Bad enough to concede and go a goal down -- to have us down to 10 men is a nightmare. Howard should have made sure in trying to retrieve the situation that he didn't make things worse instead.
