Pretty much agree but it’s not that unfair Neillo if you are picking the best team to beat the opposition. I think that under the circumstances Ayew would also have understood. Biggest problem for us as ever is the lack of a vastly alternative plan B, as unfortunately it tends to manifest itself as very similar to plan A.

It's easy in retrospect to say Bentenke should have started, but given he has been useless for a long time it would also have raised most eyebrows if he had started. Ayew has earned his place and has actually been holding the ball up well, something that Bentenke no longer seems so capable of. If we'd hit long balls to Bentenke he would probably have just flicked them to no one. I think we need Andros to start so we have more of an outlet than just Wilf, as Schlupp despite his pace does not do as much direct running. I still also wish that we'd get to see Camarassa, but this is also looking increasingly unlikely (for whatever reason).

Thought we missed a trick on Saturday by being so predictable
Watched the game from the upper Holmesdale this week and it was apparent we had many chances to play a quick long ball out from Henessey / defense behind their back four but chose to wait until City had reset themselves. For goalkicks we may as well just point to where it’s going to land and wait for it to come back.

City were set up to press against a team that would play out from the back – we didn’t do this once (apart from when Luka messed up) but also didn’t play out long balls quick enough to cause them any problems.
Wilf was stood around in open space many a time.

Mix it up a bit and get the opposition thinking

Really frustrating to watch from above