Match Thread

[Remi_Moses]

I'm watching Bartley off the ball, and he loses his runner so easily. Ajayi spends a lot of time covering for him.

Bartley was immense today. 

Not sure how well his off the ball movement can be judged on a TV screen after five minutes of a game, but each to their own I guess.

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Right now I think our midfielders don't like being pressed, and I can see our defence making at least one costly mistake. Hence why I'll take a draw, can't see us scoring at the minute.
The commentators keep making comments about how they expected more from the 2 sides. I agree with them.

Hopefully the second half will see things improve.

I’m not quite sure how you’ve come to the conclusion that our midfield don’t like being pressed. 

Personally I’m struggling to remember the last time we looked so confident on the ball, particularly when pressed or in tight spaces.

I was there, and he was caught out of position a number of times. He lost his runner and Ajayi had to cover. Thankfully we dominated possession so this weakness wasn't exploited by QPR. 

Today was by far the best we've played collectively, but there's still a couple of areas we must improve, one of those will improve immediately when Hegazi comes back in, and Bartley moves to the bench. 

The other, without sounding like a tedious twat, will be fixed if we drop Austin for either HRK or Zohore. We look a very threatening team when either of those two are spearheading the attack.

As you were at the game your opinion is valid. more so then us armchair viewers.
When Bilic begins to rotate the squad, we will find our strongest line up. But its early days.
We don't need to get obsessed  with Austin's lack of goals yet. We are top and have the best GD so we are doing everything better then the rest of the teams in the division. Focus on the positives.