My take on it all….
All three goals are errors from the other team … botched clearance , dwelling on the ball , poor positioning and and own goal.
We missed a pen.
None of the above can be legislated for.
First half I thought we were poor and handed the initiative to Sunderland.
Second half I thought we were loads better without really looking threatening until the last 10/15 minutes.
On another day we take a draw.
Bit I will say this … I haven’t enjoyed a single United performance this season… yes I have enjoyed the results and the smash and grabs and I have enjoyed the spells we have in games … but I can’t pick out one single game that I could say I really enjoyed watching us play.
even when we had the whole team fit I don’t think we played well I think we rely on individuals in the team for moments of magic.
We are set up all wrong when in possession.
We couldn't be attractive or entertaining to watch if we played this way from now till doomsday.
All the reasons have been thoroughly ventilated on here so I'm not going to rehearse them again.
Oh ...
Go on then ...
We are SLOW in transition.
We have slow , injury prone strikers.
We have Hamer stuck out on the LW.
Despite plenty of evidence that we get goals when he's on the RW , like tonight & at Millwall.
We persist with inverted wingers which gets us nowhere.
JRS & Brooks never switch to LW to favour their stronger foot.
Not even occasionally , despite the fact that we only ever play one winger.
So we rarely get to the byline to cross.
We have a 6'5" striker to whom we rarely cross in open play without the oppo defence having had time to get around him.
We rarely play balls forward AHEAD of strikers or wingers for them to run onto , like passes INSIDE the oppo FBs , or chips over defenders.
Most of our build-up is at walking pace and "in front of" the oppo defence.
When the oppo are committed in attack and Coops gathers the ball , he rarely looks for one of our players breaking forward before the oppo defence is set.
Seems to prefer to wait until all the oppo is back and ready , then attempts to "play out from the back".
We make so many backwards & sideways 3 or 5 yard passes , it's like we are trying to consume the minutes with our boring play - minutes in which we could be trying to score.
Crowd is nodding-off by the time we reach halfway line.
You only have to have a look at the stats to see the results.
With the same number of wins & losses , Leeds have 50% bigger GD than us.
We tend to win by 1goal , often 1-0.
Because our defence has been good.
But we've now conceded 5 in 3 games , so this has got to change.
I doubt our new owners will be enjoying being winless , or seeing an auto spot evaporate.
If they dig deep , Wilder needs to address some of the above issues.
