It’s early August, so it must be League Cup embarrassment time again!

[Hometown Unicorn!]

It's been great to see us keep the ball better and play a lot more football over the last 3 games but....We still can't defend can we. Keep giving pretty soft goals away.

You can point to individual errors but for me that's often maybe a symptom of wider issues with the system and players not fully understanding what the directions are.

We should have a structure where, whoever is playing, can step into the back 3/4 and knows exactly what the shape is, where they need to be and what's required of them. Surely you're less likely to make mistakes if 100% clear on your job and expectations.

This is not new, it was an issue under McCarthy too but I thought Hudson's influence would have tightened us up. He can't be happy with what he's seeing so far this season.

[olderblue]

I'm not sure you can blame a lack of understanding on a system when we have a Central defender making mistakes continually with poor passes, who then resorted to pulling yet another player down in the box.
Lack of quality definitely