For me, we played pretty well first half. The set up worked and we played direct and then had some nice play of the pair of target men. Ok, we didn't finish them off, but we put plenty of pressure on and Carey almost squeezed a second in with that tight angle shot.
I had no complaints. Ok, the 'quality' wasn't always there in 'key moments' to use Critchspeak but fuck me, it's league 1 - what do we actually expect? Main thing is we create some pressure and we did.
Then ..
Monk changed it a bit at halftime. We fell apart. I cannot help but think that Critchley cannot handle in game tactics. We just did like for like changes as opposed to actually alter anything until Virtue came on and we pulled the midfield into a proper 3.
It was poor.
I think there's a degree of hyperbole in describing it as the worst game ever etc, but 2nd half we struggled in a way that is all too familiar.