Kouyate a 6???? He was 100% responsible for the first goal. Look at it, Ward was on Antonio and peeled off for their left back, Fornals, as he should have. Kouyate has Antonio and just totally lets him run away from him and doesn't track him one bit. I was shouting at the TV saying "who is tracking him?!". You can't let Antonio be free in the penalty area. Then he gets the ball in open space, does (to his credit) make a nice blind cross and Mitchell, who is up against Soucek in about a 6 inch height difference can't put him off the header.

Kouyate was likely responsible for the 2nd goal too. He gets at best a 2 in my book!

Hang on re Roy

Dougie tried to bring young players for Roy to play for the future of our club, but Roy wants to play the oldest players possible..

look back at the demise of Stoke, they relied on aging players!! then it was too late and are now an average Champ team!!

He was even more exposed tonight.

There was no Ray to help cover up the cracks.

A manager is supposed to managed, at no time did I see any response from Roy from the dug out.. did you?

Yet again wrong tactics and straitjacking the talent we have.
4-3-3 for me with Zaha, Eze and Batshuayi or Ayew given a free role in front of 3 strong midfielders. Drop Luka and play Riedewald, McCarthy and McCarthur.
Roy is strangling the life out of the team and needs to NOW!

Let's keep the ball this season!

As has been said or intimated, the score-line flattered us tonight.

Whilst we can moan at our defence for conceding and giving Antonio and others a hatful chances they should have taken, our two ageing CDMs were woeful - slow, dwelt on the ball, got dispossessed and were overrun by a more dynamic and numerically superior opposition midfield. Even Karen Carney recognized that and couldn't understand why Hodgson didn't do something about it half-time.

As for Benteke, after his assist for Wilf's goal he seemed to think his work was done for the night. Eze whips in a ball centre forwards thrive on and Tekkers can be seen slowly jogging into the penalty box. Big Sam you can have him tomorrow.

Whilst it was too little too late, I thought the last 15 mins with Wilf, Batshuayi, Eze and Ayew up front looked promising. It also helped that Jairo was on with more accurate passes than Luka.

With Wolves coming up on Saturday (the first of six games we really mustn't lose and from which we need at least 12 points) I'd go with Wilf, Eze, Ayew and (if available) Mateta (otherwise Batshuayi), bench Townsend, Benteke, Luka and McArthur (he needs a rest).

As for the defence, if Tomkins isn't fit then we have problems.

I really do question why the hell batshayi hasn’t been given a chance this whole season. He looks more threatening than benteke and actually RUNS. Benteke. What the hell is toys problem picking the same players when there is a better alternative. Why jairo doesn’t start I don’t know. We are in trouble