Eze was very poor today ... no getting around that ... and I am surprised he wasn't taken off earlier. Scintillating first half with a terrific display from Henderson. We didn't resume the second half with the same energy and commitment and took half an hour to get going again. No points but we got going again late on and could have easily narrowed the score even more.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Similar sentiments were articulated in respect of Frank De Boer.

Even though we lost and were completely outplayed there are positives to build on, presuming we can stay up. JPM is now deserving of his place and showed skill, strength and endurance today, probably still can build his fitness. Our weaknesses are all too obvious and hard to rectify with all the injuries and limitations of some key players. Difficult to see how we can spare ourselves from getting thumped next weekend and what will that do for the confidence in the dressing room and on the pitch. Olise seemed to galvanize the team when he came on and that is huge versus Eze, who was terrible and despite all his flash, cannot provide consistent rhythm. I would make Eze an impact sub for now, rather than a starter and sell him in the summer - I am sure he will do better in a different set-up.

Eze was very poor today, Wharton was superb in my view

It was a decent performance today against a world class team. I don’t subscribe to the view that our squad is poor especially when you consider we were without Doucoure and Guehi. Ward is having an Indian summer on the right side of a defensive three, and Lerma is capable at centre back. He and Anderson are able to step out of defence when we are in possession. With Guehi and Doucoure back in the squad we have options to play Doucoure and Lerma as holding midfielders and push Wharton further forward with Olise or Eze or have Wharton alongside Doucoure and play both Olise and Eze.
The fact that people are considering selling Eze if he doesn’t fit shows how far we have come as a squad from the days of “give it to Wilf”. Personally I think there is still time to improve Eze’s play. As the pundits were saying today, keep it simple in your own half son and save the dribbling for further upfield!

Yes agree with you there , dont know whats happened to him , he is starting to look like a 20 mill keeper . Someone must be working with him on his game , dont know how he got down so quick to save that shot it was a dead cert goal , i dont think he would have saved it on his last spell in goal.

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