Wilf looked out of sorts seemed off the pace,Townsend wasnt helping AWB enough,which left us vulnerable,we gave away the ball far to easily to often allowing Bournemouth to come at us,

Sakho having a brain dead moment,Ayew needs to find space he has the skills to run at defenders but doing it in the wrong position,

We looked ok the longer we kept the ball,then we would try a silly pass and lose control,
good substitutes timings, but even i think sorloth needs tobe farmed out to get more game time championship side would be best,
finally we should have played 442 instead of 433 they run us ragged in midfield

Ayew is being asked to play the Benteke role but this is not his game,holding the ball up and winning headers.At Swansea he had players who did this like Llorente,Abraham and Bony.The Ayew I know from his Swansea days was a player who would run the channels a lot,had a good shot on him from distance and was capable with free kicks over a wall.

In fairness to Sakho, he did plenty of good things prior to his moment of madness.

PVA also had a moment of madness but got away with it.

He has a habit of scoring excellent goals, so perhaps we should play him as a striker.

I thought Hennessey and Meyer were our only PL standard players. Meyer will get better especially if we can find a poacher in the style of Gayle. At the moment we have nobody with the guile to get into space where Meyer can find him.
It is useless to pump high balls to Ayew (or Sorloth).
In the last few minutes when we should have been seeking an equaliser we couldn't get the ball out of our own half. Howe proved himself more astute than Hodgson.
Sakho has many good features but that suicidal arm chop when he had just been warned by the ref. proved that brains and common sense are not his strong points....
It does not bode well for our upcoming fixtures as 6 of the 7 we have played were about as easy as we are going to get .....

I find him very shaky and lacking confidence at the back. It is safer for Hennessy to kick the ball up field rather rolling the ball to him.

I'm usually very positive, but what worries me this season is that the performances haven't been there. Last season we were probably unlucky not to get more points, as once Roy came in there were not many games where we were not the better team or at least as good as (aside from against the top 6). When people were being negative last season I didn't worry as I could see the points would come. The opposite holds true for me this season. The only game where we were perhaps unlucky not to get more was against Newcastle. We got lucky against Huddersfield and probably Fulham too. Strangely, probably our best performance was against Liverpool, so maybe the next run of games aren't such a big worry!