I 100% agree about finding the criticism of Eze to be madness. PVA was standing in no mans land a good 10 metres back. Any decent full back would have anticipated Eze getting taken on and been there to mop up.

PVA doesn’t look like he cares anymore so it is for the best if he just runs down his contract and moves on. Which is what he has planned for a while anyway.

Riedewald was purchased by FDB with a view to deploying him in a back three or in midfield.

Probably about 3 or 4 years ago it had been commented that he had moments when he 'Switches off' but the same could be said of every player!
My understanding is that around that time Messrs Hodgson and Lewington were of the opinion that the lad does not react and get back fast enough in the PL but these views might not hold at the present time.

What I would assert about Riedewald is that when he gets the ball to feet I have a degree of confidence that he will find one of our players with a pass in fact when he signed I had heard that one of his attributes was his long range passing.
The Ajax academy does produce players who are comfortable in possession.

PVA being skipped past by Traore in the Second half for what should have been Wolves 2nd goal was embarrassing.

For RH to seemingly dismiss the defeat as being undone by a wonder goal is breathtaking in it's denial. Poor defending, and Guiata would have quite likely saved the shot (but Butland was coming back from a long lay-off and otherwise played rather well so no blame attached to him).

It was a weird game. It was like we were watching an over-50s walking football team. There was so little movement that players ended up having to constantly pass sideways and backwards. Ayew was the only really dynamic player and he may be knocking on Roy's door ahead of the Arsenal game. Other than that...

PvA stood so far off Traore that I thought he must have some kind of restraining order. McCarthy looked like it was pub closing time and he was looking to start a fight with everyone, and our front two were just useless, summed up when a ball to Batshuayi hit him on the back!

Like most of our cup games under Roy it was a non event and felt more like a training exercise or preseason game. Nuno put out his first team because he said he wants the club to respect the cup. He is one of the few managers left that seems to have that opinion until you get to the quarter-finals.

What darned "Wonder goal" ?

Overhead kick, beats 3 men, scored from one's own half,mazy dribble, multiple passes leading to goal ????
Traore cuts in, given acres of space, no challenge at all and scores from inside the area.

I'd sooner see us relegated than play like that every week. It was yet another predictable embarrassment.

Said about square pegs in round holes before the match. Needed a cohesive team with some passion but not to be. Not surprising under rinse and repeat Roy.

Edited by Booted Eagle (09 Jan 2021 12.09pm)

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

He was outside the box. Agreed poor defending but still an extremely good strike

Roy once said the cup is not the glittering prize it was.

Also, we had a good cup run a few years ago and the club were able to count the beans and assess the relative benefits of progressing.

I suspect we went into last night with that attitude. The cup is not worth the candle.

Thus your description is quite possibly what happened.