We had Kelly on the bench as well as Jairo and TFM any or all who could have been brought on at various times in the last 10 minuets to waste time/break up play. Jairo for Cabaye as he is more defensive minded, TFM for one of Zaha or Townsend and move AWB further forward and even Kelly for RLC and go 5 at the back. In defence/defending a lead our bench has some options.
If however we had been 2-1 down with 5-10 minuets to go I’ll agree our bench looks very very thin and Roy has very few options to change it around and go searching for goals and game changers.

What you on about. Kelly, riedewald or souare. 3 defenders that could of closed the game out.

Yes i’d agree with the posts supporting this. We need a park the bus mentality to see games out better and we had defensive options on the bench to do so at the end of this game. Both tfm and Jairo could have sat in front of the back four and just shut everything down.

The refusal to make substitutions is annoying although one can’t say for sure that is causing the last minute goals.
All I know is that in recent weeks we have been in winning positions against United, Liverpool and Bournemouth and have only got one point.
We look vulnerable defending corners and free kicks and seem incapable of keeping clean sheets.
Hodgson has done a decent job and the side plays some good football but can he get the necessary winning results?
One win in the last couple of months despite playing well in nearly every game does not inspire confidence.

Roys in game management is f***ing dreadful, players clearly tired, team dropping deeper and deeper. Nothing.

I tend to think a substitution might have helped if only to lose time and break up play. We will never know if it would have prevented the goal. TFM has the same defensive faults as AWB and the same could have occurred. You could argue we were winning the game for 88 minutes with the same team so what trend was there in the game that would make you want to change?
The fact is however there is a trend of conceding goals in the last minutes of games whatever the quality of the opposition and you would have thought that this would have to be looked into by the management. We cannot afford to throw away points in this way in the remaining fixtures.
COYP