I know we struggled second half of the season, and struggled to break teams down at home.

But how many times did we say last season, if only we had a decent centre forward we'd have won that game. Or all we need is an ACM player to play that killer pass.

We'll we got that centre forward and really should have bought a good ACM.
When we were winning at the start of last season every player knew their job. Cabaye and macarthur shielded the back 4, punch was the number 10 and we broke quickly down the wings. If we had bought an ACM as well as benteke, could we not have carried on playing 'our way'?

I loom at it the other way...with benteke up front and a decent ACM, playing our old style....surely that would also have reaped rewards without abandoning our defensive shape.

Pardew has changed it. We try and keep the ball more and don't play purely counter attacking football. problem is by fixing our attack and lack of goals he's f***d the defence...

Totally agree
Style had nothing to do with bad defending

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Keith Millen is more than a tad responsible for our diabolical,disorganized defensive woes and I pray that he is not put in temporary charge when AP is finally sacked this or next weekend,when we inevitable lose.
Hope Parish has arranged for a seamless change of manager to give us a fighting chance of survival.

I know we have given away more goals from set pieces, but would be interesting to know how many corners/free kicks we have given away compared to other seasons. A lot of these because of lack of defensive cover, getting caught out of position, last ditch tackles. Against Swansea we gave away 24 free kicks (almost twice as many as any other premiership team playing saturday) against a team we knew were dangerous ay set pieces. ..