That was your quintessential Farke disaster class. Wrong selection, wrong formation, wrong tactics, and that's before it started. Yet again the failure to change the negativity at HT and grab the game at home, he waits beyond the other side's changes and going behind. Then it's empty the bench and say 3 Hail Marys.
The failure to rotate clearly leggy players in a run of 3 wins in 15 games, the eternal negativity, the failure to win last night and to possess the game management to see out the 3 points at Villa now leave us yet again in a perilous position.
Instead of at least a double buffer against those below us, by tomorrow night we could be behind Spurs and within 1 and 3 points of Forest and West Ham respectively with no buffer whatsoever. That we are where we are is all down to those sides repeated failure in successive games to win and catch us. We were and are just treading water waiting to be caught.
It also confines what could have been a great cup run from a comfortable position to a throwaway and afterthought once again. This breaks my heart perhaps[s most of all.
The damage and potential damage from these two games gone alone is already huge and could be catastrophic. We may scrape survival but it's further proof positive for me that a head coach change is essential in the summer.
