I’m not going to dress any of that up. It was awful and I can’t wait to get home.
The referee was awful and ruined the game. Cahill should have been sent off with Costa. The linesman didn’t know how throw-ins worked and that gave us a few laughs. Well, if you didn’t laugh, you’d cry, it was that type of day.
Although that doesn’t take away any blame from the main culprit, Koeman. His selection of Calvert Lewin over Lookman was again a big mistake. It went downhill from there. Subs should have been made at half time following a sorry spell. They weren’t. They were made 20 minutes too late. Then followed the most uninspiring, clueless sub I’ve seen from Koeman. Enner Valencia, who at that point was threatening heavily the Chelsea defence, was brought off for the dead man walking Arouna Koné. He was awful, shockingly enough.
His instructions left too many players out of their depth and his subs left the fans out of the stadium.
Anyway. I said I wasn’t going to dress it up so here’s the ratings.
