devaney » Wed May 18, 2016 9:30 pm wrote:Very poor performance. In the first nine minutes we gave away three or four free kicks in very dangerous positions and Sevilla certanly looked the more threatenng side.Sevilla made our lives very difficult in the first 30 minutes and didn't give us a second on the ball. It took a Sturridge wonder goal to wake us up and we could have gone in at half time with a greater lead than 1-0. In the second half we were pathetic and created nothing. I am amazed that some people actually think we did alright in the first half a choose to blame some of the decisons for our downfall.
Hate to say it but on the night Sevilla were the better team.
Sevilla had one shot on goal in the 1st half and we had 8.
We had two clear handballs in the penalty box not given.
Not sure why and how you are convinced Sevilla were better in the 1st half.
I think there is a certain mentality on here that we don't want to blame ridiculously unjust decisions not impacting the result of the game.
Sevilla steamrolled us in the 2nd half no one is denying that but it should have been a lot harder for them coming down from 3-0 down to what it was at 1-0.