On the quiet pretty bad defensively but didn't get punished.
Very good going forward as we have been all season
My take is that in some games it becomes quickly apparent to the whole side that we can have the other team up top any time we want, and that they are not really a huge threat against either. In this game that happened after 90 seconds. We started flat out, basically took them apart twice and then scored a beauty on the third attempt and it wasn't even the second minute yet. information: these cant keep up.
When those games happen, this team has been together for a long time and it knows when its got the measure of the other side. We dont exactly lose all focus but we do lose some intensity because the danger element pretty much goes out of the game. so thats when the "sloppy" creeps in, especially in terms of whole team defending. It shouldn't be like that but the players are not machines.
we rarely play like that in big important closely matched games, so im not to arsed about it even though its not perfect obviously.
so its not the end of the world for me