andrew2806

Koeman, De Boer

Too many things are wrong at the moment to list but for me a lot of it stems from Howard. His inability to come off his line at set pieces puts pressure on an already beleaguered defence. Also his distribution from the back at times appears without thought and often puts us under more pressure, this though is endemic of the defence as a whole and is approved of by Martinez! Today Leicester where the antithesis of us, quick to get the ball forward and decisive with their use of the ball in forward areas, plus their work ethic was superb. I am not advocating what at times is a long ball style but we do need to mix it up and stop with this faffing about across the back line which gives me the jitters every time we do it. As I see it Martinez has to start by dropping Howard and while this is not the only problem it will be a start. If he doesn't and results carry on like this we will have no choice but to sack him as we cannot allow his stubbornness to cost us in what could still be a good season for us.

Classic tale of two halves, should have been out of sight after half an hour! Think we were rocked by that early equaliser from yet another corner !! and never recovered our composure. It looks like every time we defend a corner we will concede and I think a lot of that is down to Howard who is constantly rooted to the spot on the goal line. Surely it's now time to drop him. Gave my vote to Barry though I thought Cleverley was excellent as well.