LeonWasTheDog's said:
Absolutely. Comprehensively out thought by a rookie manager and outplayed by a team in the relegation zone. Awful all round.
We weren’t ‘out thought’. We just played badly, missed passes all over the place and Derby put in a lot more effort and win every single 50:50 ball and most that were 60:40 in our favour.
Ayew threw himself in the floor every time he received the ball and Grimes / Smith and our centre backs were poor.
Cooper started with pretty much our best team and certainly with our best formation. Sometime we play badly. And when we do, we have no striker to speak of to bring on to mix it up. I don’t like judging a young player, but honestly, Cullen has now had plenty of chances and doesn’t, at the moment, look anywhere near good enough.
We have to get a striker in in the window if we have ambition.
Bad day at the office.