I guess Shawcross made the transition from Titus Bramble to Paolo Maldini this past week. Last week he was awful against Bournemouth. This week, he is Maldini in disguise.
Richarlison shouldn't be in the box we got 2 there already. He should be helping Holebas on the wing dribbling and making things happen. That's how we were winning games before.
It's ok we will beat Everton next week. Then it's another international break. Hopefully we can get Prodl back. Considering he only received a knock, he's been out 3months! Get Pereyra back and smash West Ham and Newcastle after the break.
Sums up Stoke's gameplan Shaqiri, one of the players on a yellow card, is replaced by Charlie Adam, but not before a few more words with an irate Richarlison. They came to frustrate, kick, foul, niggle, wind up and bully us and we fell for it, yet again.
Quite. How has Prodl been out since September with a minor knock in an Austria game? Some honesty from the medical department would be good.
Deeney absolutely awful, Gray slightly better. Richarlison also very poor. Kabasele, Kiko, Cleverley and Doucoure all decent.
There's nothing positive to say about this game I thought Pulis was bad but Mark Hughes has taken anti football to a whole new level Without Pereyra we don't have the talent to break down a 10 man parked bus that has no intention of partaking in a game of football
Mark Hughes and Stoke deserve each other. Ugly team, ugly tactics and ugly manager. Would hate that to be my club. Hopefully our boys and Marco learnt a lesson today and won't be mugged off so easily next time.
Could of played for another 90 mins and still not scored today. Have to put it down as a bad day at the office Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
This is the quality of teams we have to beat, not Chelsea, Man City, etc. If anybody still thinks that our priority is yet another defender, rather than a goalscorer, then they know nothing about football. We cannot keep relying on Richarlison pulling it off every week.
stoke were crapp but we just couldnt string it together. their goalie timewasting from the first half. someone earlier put it well niggly rough football team stoke. hate them so much
We were a little too predictable today despite finishing quite strong. Hoof ball in the box too often. All the play from the right not the left where Richarlison should be. I'm annoyed because I can see it and Silva can't. On to next week.