I know we lost....but we played the champions at their ground, and had more possession, more shots, more shots on target and more corners. Must take some kind of positives from that.

I may get some stick for this but I think benteke has let us down last couple of games. Penalty miss and a couple of good chances last week. And a header which he should have scored from, and a missed one on one this week....could have won us both games.

Edited by spartakev2 (22 Oct 2016 5.24pm)

..but they should have been 0-1 down before the 30 mins mark arrived and they finally awoke, if we had taken our opportunities they may have felt less obliged to come at us with such gusto, it was far from pathetic, Cabaye had a reasonably goodish game and he linked play up well, the trouble we have is the utterly ridiculous and stupidly frustrating long ball and then the slow build up play before we see Townsend and Zaha get anywhere near the ball, we are playing like we still have Bolasie one minute and then Cruyff the next, because we have fixed one end...we now find ourselves having to fix the other.

Remember we're missing Dann, Soare, Puncheon and Remi today. Looked vulnerable at left back but we'll be well up for next Saturday's game.

We do need a disciplined and battling performance otherwise it'll start looking like another bad run...

It's difficult to miss what you've never had.

No 'pads'obviously

Who should we sign in January? Who's likely to be available? Can we recall anyone from loan? Are any of our academy players coming good?

We seemed to have more defensive spine when Pulis was in charge.