Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
After 90 minutes today I saw 11 players who were comfortable on the ball, had some pace about them, read the game well, whose movement off the ball was significantly better, whose passing was significantly better. If our players were on a par we'd have matched them in those areas. We fell well short. We're ok if we drag teams down to our level, make it a bit of a battle, bombard them with aerial stuff and win lots of set pieces. Swansea barely allowed us to do that to them. We were that easy to work out and our players and management had no answer.