Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
I have a problem figuring how we were both too hasty and not moving the ball quickly enough - if the instructions were that we should take things more slowly while quickening up our passing perhaps the sort of performance we saw last night becomes more understandable .

Although Joe Allen put in his usual wholly committed performance, he has been on the bench for a Stoke side struggling at the bottom of the Championship this season and I thought he was that little bit later closing down opponents last night.
I think perhaps some players were too ponderous ie Joe Allen and Ampadu who weren’t moving the ball quick enough to our front 4 and there were others, certainly Neil Taylor, who was trying to force passes through to the front men, James in particular, that just weren’t there.