There might have been a bit of that, but I watched it just now on SKY and it looks like he just couldn't wrap his head around the ball. He was standing parallel to the goalline whereas he needed to be facing 45 degrees to his right, which he might have been had he anticipated Green missing the ball.
My main memory from watching it in real time was that we shipped an awful lot of chances, but having watched it again it's got to be said so did they. Long made a bit of a botch of the rebound from Keogh's shot, Keogh's misses, Treacy's shot. If you ewatch the incident that led to Keogh's miss, Delaney was practically rugby tackled to the ground and the time Long went down under a challenge - that could have been given. Houghton said in the commentary that it was the defender just being stronger. It was just as much a shove.
Anyway, at least last night showed who we can rely on and who we can't.
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