Quote Originally Posted by AKBapologist View Post
Defence is another story. Many games where we were beaten, the entire side controlled the game poorly or the keeper or someone during the set piece made an error. Lack of actual quality and organisation where main issues there. Where as new legs, ideas and a change of tempo let us down in attack. Depth was more of an issue when we needed to break teams down. And when you need 8 players on the edge of an opponents box to score, that understandably leaves you very open anyway.
So why talk about strength in depth - when its generally acknowledged that our defence was our Achilles heel last season? If Clichy had talked about a lack of organisation; a lack of maturity or a lack of first team quality, I could live with that. Lack of strength in depth - not so much.