Machiavelli
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Two shots on target. Awful decision making in the first half. Sitting back a la Hughton in the second. Total inabiilty to play thorugh the press. Not what has been promised up to now. Players, manager or off day?
Villa were shit and that was unforgivable from us.
I'm not entirely convinced we sat back in the second half. That said, we were poor in the second half. For me, it's more that we seemed to become a bit arrogant, and doing bizarre things. The most obvious was when we had a free kick in their half on the left and, rather than putting it up near the edge of the penalty area, Trossard kicked the ball back to Dunk, who was mid-way in our half. That surrounded a long passage of play leading up to their goal that's difficult to describe, it was just odd. It was certainly insipid, but I can't quite put my finger on it.