No Shaw, no Lindelöf, no Matic, no McTominay, and no Rashford for most of the match. That kind of softens the blow.
I’m not sure if certain players are saving themselves for tuesday, or if we just have a general fatigue going... or maybe we just lack leaders, so when the group is struggling, nobody keeps us properly on our toes and focused.
At any rate it was hard to watch, and one could argue West Ham would be more deserving of three points after that. Fred again showed that he’s far too variable to be trusted centrally. Hopefully that’ll get better, because he’d been good lately, and started today pretty well.
Then again, I didn’t feel much better under Mou when we battered minnows at home and got a single point for our troubles. I’ll take this and look forward to a better performance on tuesday.