I agree with you about how it went, but (and I might well be wrong) I do disagree with your timings as for me it feels like it was very clearly the Barry miss that was the turning point as I didn't feel that we'd sat back prior to that at all - I felt that we were still pressing and in control and far more likely to score, hence that chance being created in the first place.

I know that Mr Gard will mock me for mentioning "body language" but I felt that Barry's clear distress at missing that chance seemed to seep through to the rest of the team, and Col's suggestion ("What's the point of creating these chances when he's missing them and now his head's gone") might well hold some truth. The timing of taking him off clearly hadn't been suggested at half-time (their goal clearly changed the thinking on that) so again we had to see his clear distress at being taken off when he's obviously wanting to prove himself.

I've seen so many different opinions on whether Beto or Barry is our best/worst option but for me they're both as good/bad/frustrating as each other - just in different ways. The consistent thing about them both is that unfortunately they're nowhere near what we need, but that's what we've got, at least until January, so we've got to make the best of it.

I would also say that I'm not quite as panicky as others seem to be. Yes, I think the game was quite badly managed, the introduction of McNeil was baffling given the other options on the bench (and he was as awful as we'd expected - but he always is on the right hand side - hence "baffling") and the other substitutions were far too late as well, but for those first 20 minutes I felt that we looked as good as we've looked all season, so as someone who will always take the positives, that will be what I will take from the game and just hope that they can find a way to maintain that kind of control for 90 minutes, get the strikers scoring and that Ndiaye isn't injured for the next game.