YorkshireRoyal99 It was poor defending, even after hindsight. Ched Evans isn't the most prolific goalscorer ever, but he's a Championship footballer with previous International experience, he can score a goal (of quality) from those areas and I'd imagine, in a lot of circumstances, if you allow a Championship CF to enter your box unchallenged, you're asking for trouble.
I do agree with P.Ince, it's tough to be asking the same players to be playing every few days with minimal changes at this level and at this intensity, but the goals we conceded on Friday were so weak and easy that it does become less of an excuse. Robbie Brady has quality with his delivery, now maybe if legs are tiring some you aren't going to be sprinting out but we were 50 minutes into the game and he had a good couple of seconds in the second phase and we didn't get anywhere near close enough. The header was good, fair play, still soft but a good header and the 2nd goal was a similar principle, not engaging the man on the ball enough. That wasn't just applicable to Friday, Swansea away we failed to engage the players with the ball enough.
Sometimes I think we are "too concerned" on keeping shape rather than doing the basics of locking on the man with the ball and have players recovering in behind restricting space.
Has he considered not doing that? Given it's him doing the asking...