Well that was pretty unrelentingly grim.
Tempo wasn't there right from the off, we never had any spell where we looked a serious threat and defensively it's as bad as I've ever seen us under Nuno. The first three goals in particular are shocking:
First: Yes, it's total bullshit from Atkinson, you've given them the freekick so they can't hit a moving ball from way in front of where the foul was. But still, Saiss has to know that Bowen is all left foot and as well as he takes it...don't even give him that opportunity. If you wanted a textbook demonstration of how not to defend against that specific opponent then that was it.
Second: We're on the attack, Raul (awful throughout tonight, sad to say) falls over for no reason, one lump forward and Coady has got too tight to Antonio as he did all match. From there we're bang in trouble.
Third: We get a goal kick. BT are too busy pissing about showing Stuart fucking Pearce on the bloody phone but next we see, we've somehow given away a throw in 25 yards from our own goal. How the hell did we manage that? A few seconds later we compound it by leaving a 6'4'' guy with a record of scoring headers totally unmarked at the near stick.
Most disappointingly, after a below par first half where we were very fortunate to only concede one, there was no real reaction from us. Just more of the same. I can't even complain at the scoreline. Boly, Coady, Adama and Raul were all diabolical and we can't afford for that to happen.
Write it off, learn from it, sort it out next week.
