Eddie Howe has not held back in his assessment of last night’s 2-0 defeat at Crystal Palace, revealing how “baffled” he was by certain aspects of our performance.
Speaking to the media after our 10th away defeat of the season, the boss criticised our lack of quality in possession and constant reluctance to shoot, feeling it was a real “missed opportunity” on a night that saw us slip to seventh following Man Utd’s 4-2 win over Sheffield United.
” None of our game was in a good place.” Howe said. “Usually we’re better technically than that and that was a big area of our game that disappointed me. We gave the ball away too much, we didn’t attack well and we seemed reluctant to shoot around their goal, which baffled me really. We got half a yard and didn’t pull the trigger.”
“It’s very disappointing, from the high of Spurs to the low of tonight. We started well for two minutes then it unravelled into an uncomfortable feeling. We had to perform better than we did today. I think it is a missed opportunity. We’re still in the mix (for Europe), but we can’t play like we did today if we’re going to maintain our push for the European places.”
We’d picked up 10 from a possible 12 in our four previous games and were the fresher of the two sides after a rest over the weekend, but we looked bizarrely flat and never got going.
In hindsight, Howe’s decision to stick by the same makeshift defence was the wrong one, especially when Palace were always going to pose a completely different test and set up to Spurs.
Eddie Howe has not held back in his assessment of last night’s 2-0 defeat at Crystal Palace, revealing how “baffled” he was by certain aspects of our performance.
Speaking to the media after our 10th away defeat of the season, the boss criticised our lack of quality in possession and constant reluctance to shoot, feeling it was a real “missed opportunity” on a night that saw us slip to seventh following Man Utd’s 4-2 win over Sheffield United.
” None of our game was in a good place.” Howe said. “Usually we’re better technically than that and that was a big area of our game that disappointed me. We gave the ball away too much, we didn’t attack well and we seemed reluctant to shoot around their goal, which baffled me really. We got half a yard and didn’t pull the trigger.”
“It’s very disappointing, from the high of Spurs to the low of tonight. We started well for two minutes then it unravelled into an uncomfortable feeling. We had to perform better than we did today. I think it is a missed opportunity. We’re still in the mix (for Europe), but we can’t play like we did today if we’re going to maintain our push for the European places.”
We’d picked up 10 from a possible 12 in our four previous games and were the fresher of the two sides after a rest over the weekend, but we looked bizarrely flat and never got going.
In hindsight, Howe’s decision to stick by the same makeshift defence was the wrong one, especially when Palace were always going to pose a completely different test and set up to Spurs.
