Disagree - I think our defence is pretty good, our strikers are pretty good and our midfield is ok but lacks creativity badly.
It's just the way we setup or, rather, don't press/push on up the pitch that is the major problem. The gap between our midfield and attack is huge. An absolute gulf.
100% agree that the gap is the problem. It was so obvious on TV the other day, the gap is 35% of the pitch at times.
It's a sign of no confidence afaik in that the defence always know it's coming straight back at em and could also be impacted by formation.
The goals and lack of seems to be down to us counter punching and relying on other teams to make a mistake. Teams don't do that with us as we don't have possession long enough to **** it up in the last 3rd, we give it away a long time before then. This would be fine years ago but the overall quality of teams at the bottom has increased recently and we have and are going backwards.