Eventually, belatedly, the hosts began to target Liverpool down the flanks and created several openings that should have yielded victory.
In fact, their second-half display should have yielded more than just the solitary strike from Nsue.
"A bit woeful," Allardyce said of his team's passing, and they needed almost 80 minutes to exert the pressure that should have yielded a flattering three points.
In theory such a self-effacing approach should have yielded a bland performance, and in another work that might have been the case.
If there were any truth to drill-here-drill-now, this boom should have yielded substantially lower gasoline prices and lots of new jobs.
A long breakout from Hallam Amos and Jamie Roberts should have yielded a score, only for Scott Baldwin to end up isolated on the left wing when moving the ball right was the obvious option.
In some cases he used identical graphs to portray the data generated by experiments that were done on different materials and electronic devices and thus should have yielded different results.
It's not surprising that the muddy, bloody slaughter of the first world war should have yielded films such as All Quiet on the Western Front, What Price Glory? and The Big Parade, projecting the message that war is hell.
For Deanna D'Amato, a 42-year-old single mother from Grafton, Mass., the 11 days she spent living out of a trailer in Long Beach, N.Y., should have yielded a small windfall of overtime pay.
Instead, the goals must come from elsewhere, on this occasion from Eden Hazard who scored on 30 minutes in a period of pressure for the home side that should have yielded more.
