[madsteve]

Wildsmith 5

Hunt 4
Loovens 7
Lees ?
Wiggins 6

Sougou 5
Lee 5
Hutchinson 4
Wallace 4

Joao 4
Hooper 4

Very poor.  Only plus point was Wiggins, Sougou and Hooper getting 90 mins.  

Oh, and McGugan was decent after coming on.  He needs to start against Derby.

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Interested in your 7 for Huthinson.  I though he was awful.  Never got near their midfield players and gave away at least 3 stupid fouls, including the free kick Bardsley scored from.

Hutchinson gave away three free kicks but he was the only player really hassling them on the ball plus his passes were the only ones with real purpose. McGugan passed ok but was slower so easy for defenders to cover. Also, jumping out of tackles at 1-0 is just not acceptable and demoralises team mates, particularly as he did it twice when we were in Stoke's half.

I said it was hard marking the players because, for example, Joao & Hooper were feeding on scraps but still kept making intelligent runs. In fact if Lee had passed better, Hooper would probably have scored in the first half. Some on social media have blamed Hooper for the miss but watching it on TV this morning, he was let down by the pass.

I wouldn't argue with Loovens as your top rated player. He has looked back to his best recently.

There are a few plus points - Wiggins looked decent, Pudil, Sougou & Hutch filled in well in other positions & Wildsmith looks like a quality keeper.