See, I agree, JC generally knew how to set the team up not to lose, however, that was generally on occassions were weren't expected to win, which is something you raised BB. I agree with it. We only perform when there is no pressure on the team, i.e. underdogs. As you quite rightly said, we performed in Europe because we were not expected to make it out of the Dnipro game. I mean, even Brazil lost 5-0 at home...
But when things are expected of us, even JC couldn't tackle the problem of the players hiding or something going wrong. I have no idea why this happens, maybe its due to the lack of a strong vocal character on the park, but it certainly isn't something new. The same thing happened on Thursday that has been happening in all of JC's teams. Granted, JC isn't the manager anymore, but those players were still his and MM needs to find out a way and quickly how to change their trail of thought. I'm in full agreement that the defence needs sorting out, and as I said earlier, we need 3 defenders, 4 if we could really afford it.