No Ogbonna…no youth – we were mugged off to the end

One decision alone was sufficient for me to realise he’d mugged us off and had probably picked a team to lose – no place in the squad for Angelo Ogbonna!

There seems  simply no explanation for dropping your best defender unless you are punishing him or deciding that you simply want out as fast as possible.

Fredericks – though not good enough – was always coming back in but resorting to the likes of Sanchez was criminal. Some will argue he had no alternative given Noble’s inability to play two games in three or four days.

But if the captains not fit enough to play at all during the 90 minutes then there can be no place for him on the bench and we would have been better off with Joe Powell or Conor Coventry.

Pellegrini changed nothing. Players who had failed over and over again were played in a failed system by a failed manager who didn’t give youth a chance whilst Brendan Rodgers played a debutant left back.

Antonio on the bench I understood given the need to protect  him from a recurrence of injury, but I found the dropping of Ogbonna unforgivable and possibly spiteful.

The only reason I can find – and YES I MAY WELL BE WRONG – was that he may have paid the price for whatever he said to Noble during the Palace game which led to the captain’s outrage.

With Ogbonna in the team,  yesterday might have been different but maybe that would have been a bad thing in itself. Pellegrini may still have been here.

Now it looks like Moyes and whilst I pray to God I’m wrong I genuinely start to fear there aren’t three teams worse than us in the division.

Whatever our feelings on the Moyes appointment we still need yo give it OUR very best until the end of the season. Then let the REAL post mortem start and decisions on what next.