The obvious conclusion must be that it was Pat Rice who held it all together.

['Neg]

Bould out. Patrice back in.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

but we have had the players to go and out score opponents and keep the ball better than now.

[PSRB]

anyone else

[Curly]

to win the game.Reckless attacking when it was 0-0 imho.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

individual errors are more exposed and easier to punish when you are collectively weak.

We conceded exactly the same goal in Schalke as we did against Spurs, i.e. 3 defenders were playing off side and 1 defender was going with the runner, for example. It actually looks worse than in previous seasons, but we were making different collective errors in previous seasons.

[Norn Iron]

that they need to nick the ball off attackers to start attacks.

The first thought of a defender should be to defend and not concede goals. They have the mentality of 10 years olds.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

But the recklessness is a symptom of the problem, not a cause imo