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Watched the YT hightlights now and awful defending for the first goal and pressing too high with too slow central defenders to recover if/when the linesman mkaes a bad call on the offsides - can't really tell if it was OS but JP seemed to think so.

Either most of them thought it would be easy (like Charlton ) and or they weren't up to a cold and wet Tuesday night game. Also with concrete cows throwing all the meat on the fire didn't pan out too well either.

Seems to me some of the squad are fatigued or carrying niggles but there's no-one to cover because of other injuries. Lee didn't seem as involved as much last night and the normal passing and possession we have seen previouslydidn't pan out. From the commentary we made Potter sound like messi and MK put in a better shift just like Bournemouth did against Liverpool.

While as SCO said we haven't tried starting Hooper on his own, to me it looked like he is about 2 stone over weight and so won't be mobile enough . His finish last night was good but I suspect he is best getting to balls in the 6 yard box and to do that we need better service for it to work.

I do think matias will be like a new signing when he gets back and the Nacional highlights showed him and Joao linking up well.

A lot can happen between now and May though - look at Derby last year. If we can sneak a play off place then those games become like cup games and with the home and excelent away support anything could happen. More diappointing than losing in the play offs would be finishing 7th on GD.

Hopefully this is a bit of a blip and we can push forward with a run that sees us beating teams rather than getting draws but we will need a bit of luck, lots of hard work and some players to recover quickly.