... No not Ilunga... kill teams off!
Thats what we didn't do today, and with numerous chances to do so, we still have the same problem of lacking a finisher. I hope we sign one before the end of the window, Nicky Maynard looks like he could be coming in, which would be nice.
When we went 1-0 up after 5 minutes of play, and after our midweek drubbing of Watford, I couldn't have been the only one secretly thinking that we were in for more of the same and we were on our way to another victory. We then struggled after scoring which is so typical of us (Brum away in the cup semi final springs to mind) and we let them get back into the game and luckily for us Max Gradel doesn't want to upset his potential new boss by scoring a pen against us. He did look half decent apart from that today though didn't he?
Second half and I genuinely think we were second best to a decent Leeds performance. Julien Faubert came on and whipped some good balls in (for once) and we managed to get ourselves back in front. Now here is where I think Allardyce should have bought someone else on rather than bringing another striker on in Freddie the fly tipper, with only 10 minutes (ish) to go and only being ahead by one goal. We then sat back and our piss poor left back in the shape of Ilunga again let us down in the closing minutes of the match and it really did feel like 2 points lost rather than a point won.
Allardyce - Why do you play a centre midfielder, Jack Collison, out of position as a winger? Does anyone else feel like our midfield is too crowded? Jack seems to sneak back into the middle without realising himself, and before you know it we have him, Noble, Parker and Nolan all too close together at times. A natural winger would keep out to the sides and make runs and cause trouble for the opposition, something I thought Julien did well when he came on. Don't bring on another striker when we are holding on to a narrow lead, and don't put on the bench two players who can offer you the same thing as someone already on the pitch, Piq OR Carew on the bench would have done today, not both.
I hope this last minute conceding stuff don't carry on as we could again see our lots heads drop like they did last year, and its hard to win games as a depressed and negative team.
Bring in Gradel to cause problems down the wing, and bring in Nicky Maynard to partner Carew up front and lets see how many goals that gets us.
IN OTHER NEWS
Myself and @westhamfootball, who some of you may know on twitter, are recording our first podcast tomorrow so keep an ear out for that.
Come on you irons and lets destroy Aldershot on tuesday.
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