Hope Is Fading

Well, my initial instinct is to begin panic.  Today against Aston Villa we didn’t have ideas, we didn’t go after that extra inch to get the ball and we had too many individual efforts that fell short.  But the worst part for me is that Curbishley had no idea what to do.  In fact, his substitution of Kepa instead of Zamora was our deathnell.  Harewood came on to do what I thought he’d do if he had started.  Problem was he needed Kepa, the only one making any threat to the goal, with him.  He put Matty on to create some crosses and took the one man off that could take advantage of them.  Both Harewood and Matty were good subs but we lost some of that gain without Kepa to take advantage.  Zamora worked hard, he always does, but he created nothing.  If Alan doesn’t know what to do we are in trouble.  He doesn’t have any idea and that, ultimately, is why we have to be in the most danger we have been in.  Losing Upson is just fate giving us a kick.  What are the odds we lose the two defenders brought in to build a foundation on in their debuts.  I won’t give up, but I am more concerned now than I have been.  Our leader doesn’t pick a team to attack and win.  Until he does, we won’t win.

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