We're a poor side playing a poor brand of football.
Positives- Alcaraz had a promising debut, JWP, KWP did well, Arma made an impact when he came on. Dare i say it but i thought Diallo was okay defensively (albeit wasteful offensively). The players attitude was good, they were clearly trying for the shirt.
Negatives- simply we have too many players who are just not up to it. For example, Djenepo was dreadful, Lyanco was an accident waiting to happen. Adams...another big chance. Players like these and others we have would simply not get in another premier league side.
Its a good job that Jones is a successful championship manager because we play like one.
We are obviously asked to get the ball forward quickly and dont prioritise possession which is fine if you do it with quality. We dont, which creates a highly transitional, chaotic game. Probably the reason why our back 4 were all booked and got red card as we're always scrambling as we have no control. We're always under pressure because we have no controlled possession. No other teams in the premier league are successful playing this way.
Our pressing isnt co-ordinated and is ineffective. No patterns going forward other than long balls and diagonals and hoping for a 2nd ball by being 'aggressive'. We're a mess in transition offensively and defensively and thats down to coaching. Look at the impact other new managers have made given similar amounts of time (tbf they have better squads to work with)
Jones said how good we were, well i guess he has to but i didnt see any evidence of that tonight. Didnt expect to win tonight but more concerning to me is that i have no hope that we will be successful in the prem playing like this.