Very tricky once we gave them the goal, that gives them extra lift to defend like Spartans, where as if we kept it 0-0 we may have worn them down earlier.
We did quite well in the 2nd half, did seem more threatening.
Not helped by having players that are clearly knackered, like Eriksen.
He was okay, but as the game went on his really looked tired and his control was bad.
Winks may have been suffering tiredness too, as it was a massive boost when Dembele came on... He doesn't always make quite that impact when replacing Winksy, so I guess Winks was a bit out of sorts too.
One thing we have to improve on especially when Davies and Tripps are playing is giving them more support and to try and engineer a way to play it behind defense for them to cross it, especially Tripps with his good crossing. What kept happening was a pass out to Tripps and then he has 1 or 2 on him, nobody availble to pass forward to and no one supporting for a 1-2 or something, so he has to always pass it backwards.
It doesn't help Tripps isn't great at beating a man (lack of tricks and pace)... but I have noticed even with Aurier he often seems reluctant to try and beat the defender.
We looked most dangerous when Sonny was running at players beating them and crossing... they were out of position then and with a bit more luck or longer legs we would have scored.
Its not a pleasing result but I just can't be too down on them, have to hand it to WBA they really know how to set up to frustrate a team... It was like they had 15 players at times, blocking everything, swarming everywhere... you really have to be at your peak to be able to break that kind of defense down... and yesterday we were not in our peak form.