That was frustrating and annoying in equal part.
I agree with so many comments on here but whichever way you look at it our inability to "see out" a game is costing us and it is almost criminal for these guys - regardless of subs - to not "play the game" to ensure we keep the points.
Similar to the cup final in 2016, which was also a disaster - go down injured, ball in row Z, kick it down the field - I hate the cheating but everyone else does it!
Also - mark your man and so on.
the only way you should lose a goal in the dying minutes is due to world class play by the opposition - not a crap pass from us followed by a cross from them to two unmarked players - you just couldn't make it up!
If a million pounds worth of salary can't play park football for a couple of minutes then we are stuffed.
Because of this we are many points light on where we should be right now and bang in trouble!

There were 3 errors for the goal, i think Ayew's was the least of them. Ayew did not give Brentford time and space to deliver the cross, that was Richards. He acted like a 10 year old. Firstly he was nowhere near his man and when he realised he was out of position rather than closing him down he did the exact opposite and retreated into the box. Bizarre defending. Please don't tell me he doesn't usually play a LB, any player knows you have to close the man with the ball down.

Then the header. A midfielder makes a completely unchallenged run into the box. Who was on him? No one tracker was within 10 yards of him. Just not good enough.

PV seems clueless as to how to manage the clock down and for a squad of professionals with a combined weekly wage of c£1m this is just unacceptable.

Edited by palace99 (19 Feb 2023 8.17pm)

Edited by palace99 (19 Feb 2023 8.17pm)

Think it was more down to Mitchell getting injured and lack of cover on the left by Eza as the reason we conceded yesterday. Mitchell was having a really good game with most of Brentford’s attacks down his side. Once he went off they capitalised on it. Not sure Richards was the correct choice to replace Mitchell with Schlupp still on the pitch who could have covered. If anything we needed someone else playing left midfield than Eze to support whoever came on as well. Ayew didn’t help at the end but in truth we gave the ball away constantly throughout the 96 minutes as well as our main forward not being able to hold the ball up to relieve pressure on the midfield/defence. But I would have taken that point before the match. We are in for a tough end of season unless we start getting some wins in? Relegation is a strong possibility the way we are playing I’m afraid :-(

Just saw the seconds before their goal for the first time.

1) Ahamada presses the centre back when he has absolutely zero need to with seconds to go, which opens up the pass into midfield. Baffling decision. Needs that part of his game corrected ASAP.

2) Eze then doesn't see his man run off him because he's ball watching.

3) Schlupp sees Eze's man has run off him and, despite having no defensive responsibility of his own at the time, takes one step towards dealing with it but then decides not to.

4) Ayew watches Janelt run unmarked into the box whilst jogging behind him.

For them to score, 4 different players have f***ed up in the space of 10 seconds. If any one of them had done the right thing, Brentford don't score.

Why oh why oh why was Hughes/McArthur not in that midfield for the last 10 minutes?!

Agreed. There's nothing professional about it, yet these chumps get paid a fortune week in week out. How difficult is it to punt a ball into touch, down by the farthest corner flag? A kick upfield in rugby that gains territory is applauded, in football with 20 seconds left it is just common sense. Amateur.