I couldn’t understand why there was acres of space in the old left back position. They exploited it all the first half. Why Pickering thought he needed to get pulled inside all the time is a mystery. If he was told to play there - why ? If he wasn’t told to play there as you say he needs to be dropped.
What is really worrying is that nobody on the pitch did something about it. If the bench haven’t wised up, somebody goes down “ injured “ for a while and the captain has a quick heads up to sort it out. We seem to lack leaders/thinkers out on the pitch.