Guess that's because Trent did redeem himself on attack. I know people keep talking about TAA's defensive lapses but I'm in the camp that accepts those shortcomings in return for much more positives on the attack. This is why I don't talk about him being bad in defence. Players target him a lot too, as was evident.
It's either going to be a very long season or a very long wait until we get through this bad patch, obviously the injuries are playing a role, but there's no excuse why we saw quite a few of our players being lazy on the pitch. VVD was one of the worst on the field for it on Monday.
Yeah, we played well enough in the first two games, we had shitty starts but at least improved, and we almost did enough for another draw at United but there's something in the languid form of VVD (he's always appeared that way but his focus seems totally out the last 3 games). Lazy, as you said, something's just off, can't explain it.
And the problem for me, is we showed what we were capable of during the Community Shield match. We scraped through 2 seasons ago on injury problems hope we don't get another season like that.