I sense a lot of fans on here agree that when Luka comes on now it just fills you with dread. You should not feel that about a player, knowing he has a mistake or a bad performance in him.
Happy to be proved wrong this season but I suspect come the seasons end in May they'll be plenty of evidence to prove the case.
His crossfield pass in an attack fired well over for a goal kick.
Chickened out of a 50-50 in the middle of the park allowing a break. I could go on. We see it all far too often in his performances. A few years ago he was the first name on the teamsheet It's just hard to take to see his sharp decline.

The reason we didn't win is entirely PV fault, not luka or Mitchell, when we took Olise and Eze off 2/3 of our attacking options were removed, and we invited Brentford to attack, i have no doubt that with the subs Brentford had made we would have scored another 1 or 2 goals, last night Southampton with a one goal lead over Chelsea made 2 attacking subs in the second half, and didn't bring a defender on until the 86th min, PV can attract players to the club that other managers cant, but he is tactically a poor manager.

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

We drew.

But it felt like a loss and I agree your point. Every year there is one player who all the fans adopt as their scape goat; and this year it is Luca.

Luca is far from what we need and is something of a dead horse being flogged until Jimmy Mac is fit, or we can afford to replace him, or - more likely given what appears Parish's long term aims - be replaced by youth feeding through the ranks.

Until then, he is what he is and he is one of ours. You just need to just accept that and get off his back.

I don't consider his a 'scapegoat'. As he has passed his prime in the EPL he is being called upon to come on and salvage a point/keep a win/turnaround a defeat. That is how poor our depth of squad is. No reflection on him and surely PV would not play him if he didn't have to. Would he!?

Last-ditch winner for Liverpool against Newcastle just the same as us, attacker not picked up at the far post after the toon backed off near the end conceding corners.

You want the ball up the pitch, if you have to hoof it so what.

It was very poor tactics and the subs were rank.

need to ask what standard of football did you play Lanzo , because I was semi pro for a short period back in the late 70s early 80s but found the players to clicky and went back to playing business house lge , but same rules apply what ever standard you play , brentford had put on a all out attack to get level , because i can see it now , they score and then get the winner people would have being shouting why didnt we bring on more defence , for me PV was right players didnt do there job in defence and it is basic defending 101