Shocking defence, worrying but passion and heart

By Annis Abraham

To me that was shocking, any club that gives away two goals against a poor West Brom team in eight minutes are always going to be on the back foot and the odds were always going to be stacked against us to get those three points.

My biggest worry is,yes we can score goals but we certainly know how to concede sloppy ones and the defence in my opinion has not improved one bit and has actually got worse and that is going to be Ole’s downfall.

I thought for the first 30 minutes we were clueless all over the pitch and thankfully some could say a wonder goal others might say different but Mutch’s goal put us right back in it, I have always said going in at half time to get yourself back in the game is everything and fair play somehow we had managed it, I had been dreading if they had scored the third.

For the first time in months, I feel David Marshall had a nightmare of a game, he was responsible for their first goal and after a great equaliser by Stephen Caulker, Marshall was totally to blame for West Brom’s third.

Just a few players I am going to mention, Zaha’s moments of brilliance but once again only in patches, I thought Bellamy was everywhere without achieving anything, Campbell was everywhere as he usually is but no end product, Gunnarsson was well below par.

To me Daehli who only played 45 minutes of the game was my man of the match not just for his great goal which made it 3-3 in the dying seconds and sent the City fans into raptures but I felt he kept opening up the game and his passing and his runs were all spot on, it took a youngster to drive the team forward.

I feel a lot of those players need to look at themselves and Ole needs to sort that defence out ASAP otherwise we are going down, it is well and truly out of our hands,six games left and we have to win at least three or four games to stay, can it be done ? Personally to me it looks impossible but as City fans we have always got to believe until it is impossible.

We have to beat Crystal Palace, Stoke, Sunderland and Southampton or Newcastle and still hope that other teams mess up, our fans were amazing today and they are the ones who deserved the equaliser to make it 3-3.

Fair play to Ole, when he came over at the end I loved seeing the passion and heart in him and the care he showed towards us but is that enough to keep us up?

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