Dunno what to say really. So so poor. As bad as I've seen us play since we lost 3-0 to Leeds at the beginning of last season. We just had absolutely nothing about us. First half wasn't terrible, though our tactics did seem to be 'give it to Hernandez and hope he does something', which to be fair was occasionally working as he was a threat. But 2nd half was just appalling. I never at any point, even when Watford went down to 10 men, thought we were going to score a goal, let alone get the 2 we needed to get something out the game. This is a Watford side by the way that were pretty bad themselves, not hard to see why they were rooted to the bottom of the table without a league win before this one, yet we somehow managed to find a way to be even worse than them.
Not really sure why Farke started Tettey at centre back even though he said in the week that Amadou was fully fit. Also not sure why Vrancic isn't being bought on until the 81st minute when we really need a goal and have 2 more conservative midfielders, Trybull and McLean, on the pitch. Also not sure why Moritz Leitner isn't deemed good enough for the 18 and yet Srbeny is? I love Farke but you have to wonder what he's thinking with some of those decisions.
Earlier in the season we were being called naive when perhaps it wasn't warranted. Yesterday aspects of our performance were incredibly naive. Buendia losing the ball halfway inside his own half with 70 seconds on the clock, when he knows Godfrey is out of position, is stupidly naive. When you're in a rut like we are the one thing you just simply cannot afford to do is concede a stupid early goal, and that was exactly what we did. From that moment on Watford knew they didn't have to expend themselves in attack, they could just make sure they do everything to keep us out and maybe nick a 2nd, which is what happened. Hernandez was trying to make things work, Stiepermann had a couple of good moments first half, but overall we were so flat. Hopefully Buendia being hauled off after an hour gives him the kick up the arse he needs. Pukki isn't really doing a lot wrong but the poor guy is just getting nothing to feed on. Aarons probably man of the match for me, though him and Tettey really didn't cover themselves in glory in the 1st goal (though tbf it's hard to blame Tettey seeing as he's not a centre back).
It's so disheartening seeing this team that are so capable of playing exciting, positive football, and were involved in so many phenomenal, edge-of-the-seat games last season, looking a shadow of their former selves. It's not like we're a bad Premier League team playing at our level, we're a good side playing well below what we're capable of. I seem to say this every week but obviously the injuries have had a huge impact that can't be ignored, but even so the last few weeks have just been crap performance after crap performance. Look at Sheffield United in 5th in the league. They are not any better than us as a team and don't have better individual players than us either (and tbf haven't had a injury crisis like us either). We've 100% got it in us to put together a run of form like they've done so far this season, we just need to get our heads right and do it. If we don't there is only one place we're heading, and we're going there without a fight at the moment.
We have 2 weeks now before Everton to get injured players back fit and pick ourselves up. Next game let's get Zimmermann back in (assuming he's 100% fit) and Amadou and Vrancic in midfield and show what we can do.
P.S. Anyone who joined in with the 'You're nothing special, we lose every week' chants while we were trying to get back in the game at 2-0 down against 10 men is a fucking moron.
