Can Kennedy dribble or shoot with his boots? Maybe it's just because he's basically up there on his own, but he looked lost when the ball wasn't to his head.

Valeri looked great, whilst Grella was guilty of plenty of stupidity. The lack of strikers in the squad worries me though. Griffiths and McDonald should have been there, and maybe somebody with some creativity in the midfield.

On the plus side, having to actually chase a game seemed to do wonders for our attack. We only nabbed the one goal - but we created a lot more opportunities than I'd grown used to. Our defense was shocking, but at least we looked like we were trying to create goals rather than just sitting back and waiting to grab them on the counter.

A wake up call. Hopefully it's given Verbeek a better idea of who should start.


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