The end of that half was much better, but we've ultimately paid the price for 2 awful pieces of defending. The first goal came from a poor Michael Turner clearance, the ball was then given to Ralls who was allowed to walk through our defence effectively, and finish it off. After the first goal we actually improved, and started to control the game a bit more, and we had a great effort from Lafferty saved well from Marshall. But then when the ball was played out to the right hand side, no-one tracked Pilkington's run through our defence, the ball was played into him and he pulled it back for Gunnarson. A great finish but dreadful defending, and Olsson in particular to blame for not tracking Pilkington. Since then we've seen a lot of the ball, and put some good moves together, but haven't really threatened their goal. We're certainly not out of this though, one goal and we're right back in, we just need to take our chances if/when they come.
Lewis Grabban has been quite frankly terrible. There's been numerous times where we've got into a good position, and he hasn't been in the box. If that doesn't change I would take him off, and bring Josh Murphy on, and move Lafferty up front. Lafferty has looked good, been our main threat and was unlucky not to score. Hooiveld has also impressed me at the back. Hoolahan is also causing some problems for Cardiff. Redmond has been alright but hasn't really seen much of the ball.
Overall we haven't actually been that bad, but we started slowly, and defended abysmally on a couple of occasions which is why we're 2-0 down. If we're able to defend properly in the second half then there's no reason why we can't get back into this. That said though I don't think it'll happen.