I think we're very much having to "make do" mate - clearly, and more often than not recently, the defence are struggling to find anyone in midfield to work with and we're struggling to keep the ball when they do get rid of it for more than five seconds. I don't get, however, how our defence, especially with three centre-halves, are so vulnerable to a counter-attack, they seem to be all over the place with people running at them with the ball.
My boy Nakamba was clearly bossed by Billings in CM yesterday and that's going to happen sometimes, despite Nakamba's cracking recent form, everyone comes up against players/teams that have them over but that's styles rather than outright ability I think.
The problem of course is that when you have more than one or two players not playing well on the day then it can throw out the entire team if others don't/can't make up for it. Guilbert and Luiz were shocking again yesterday, truly shocking to the point I asked during the game whether they were drinking buddies because their form has gone off a cliff at exactly the same time. Show pony Ghazi is the last player you'd expect to firm up the right hand side for us as he's completely anonymous in every game so if Guilbert doesn't turn up either then we're going to struggle on that side.
All told, and while I expect inconsistency, we often look completely clueless at times, like literally no idea what to do but perhaps if you've only got one swinging dick away from defence then this is how it's going to look unless Jack is on the ball but tbh, even that is wearing thin with me, I'm almost sick of the sight of him having to fetch and carry everything at times, sometimes from the edge of our own area.
