First up, that's probably as well as we can do in the current situation. It's not a sustainable way of playing. I don't think you can set up that way at Brighton next week, let alone Palace and Southampton at home. But for today - it was alright. They didn't have many clear chances at all and Haaland was as good as invisible.
Sa proved a point - I doubted his mentality after the League Cup shocker vs Brighton but he was right on it today. That's his shirt now, surely. The centre halves all played well. It's a lovely goal from us and had we gone 2-0 (Semedo has to score that)...who knows.
But we didn't retain the ball well at all, that's a disgracefully poor cameo from Guedes who shouldn't be getting any minutes, and we showed precious little idea of how to offer any kind of threat in the second half.
The refereeing is something else. Absolutely appalling. The winner...I can see the case either way. But we were told last season with the Kilman/Chirewa incident vs West Ham that there's no grey area, if he's offside in that situation then he's offside and there's no call to be made. How the FUCK is that any different? It's shocking officiating, Attwell hasn't got the balls to make a decision, the little cunt, and while I hate stupid conspiracy theories, I suspect if that's Brentford or Everton "scoring" against us...it doesn't get given.
A kick in the teeth. The effort was there, the spirit is still in the camp which is good, but we've come away with nothing. Again.
