He chucked the Liverpool game away!
There - I finally said it! I thought it at the time but didn't want to say anything cos Lennon was still flavour of the month but come on - we had them and we chucked it away!
1-0 with about 10 mins left, loads of fresh legs on the bench.
Every time Eidur touched the ball in the last 25 mins he lost it or practically fell over. He was well out of steam. Mills was the same. And we had lost a man in midfield yet we kept Mills up front.
We started running to the corner flag with 10 minutes to go when we had chances to get forward - so it was clear that the mentality was to hold on to what we had - so if that was the case why not drop Mills back into defence if he really must stay on the pitch.
We could have brought two more subs on with fast legs to exploit their high line defence while they pressed looking for a goal. But no - we kept it the same.
Our players were run ragged and once they made it 1-1 there was only ever one winner if it got to extra time, there was no way we could last another 30 mins - it would have ended 7-1.
So why at 1-1 did we still not make a change? It was clear Liverpool thought they could nick it and so continued to pile forward. We should have reacted by either going more defensive or more attacking - instead we did nothing and lost!
Can somebody tell me why we didn't make the changes required? I am happy to be corrected.
There - I finally said it! I thought it at the time but didn't want to say anything cos Lennon was still flavour of the month but come on - we had them and we chucked it away!
1-0 with about 10 mins left, loads of fresh legs on the bench.
Every time Eidur touched the ball in the last 25 mins he lost it or practically fell over. He was well out of steam. Mills was the same. And we had lost a man in midfield yet we kept Mills up front.
We started running to the corner flag with 10 minutes to go when we had chances to get forward - so it was clear that the mentality was to hold on to what we had - so if that was the case why not drop Mills back into defence if he really must stay on the pitch.
We could have brought two more subs on with fast legs to exploit their high line defence while they pressed looking for a goal. But no - we kept it the same.
Our players were run ragged and once they made it 1-1 there was only ever one winner if it got to extra time, there was no way we could last another 30 mins - it would have ended 7-1.
So why at 1-1 did we still not make a change? It was clear Liverpool thought they could nick it and so continued to pile forward. We should have reacted by either going more defensive or more attacking - instead we did nothing and lost!
Can somebody tell me why we didn't make the changes required? I am happy to be corrected.