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Napoli all over Cagliari but haven’t scored.

Still don't think there's much value in Mbeumo. His non-penalty xG+xA per 90 is only 0.51 and this was the first season he outscored his xG and did it significantly (19 goals from ~13xG). Wissa (0.73) and even Schade (0.52) were ahead of him from Brentford. Some other players from the league that people probably wouldn't be that excited if we signed them (all numbers from Understat so not the best data but still): Ouattara 0.76 Sarr 0.74 Havertz 0.71 Jackson 0.68 Madueke 0.66 Son 0.65 Beto 0.65 Traore 0.64 Savio 0.61 Jimenez 0.59 Brennan Johnson 0.59 Rashford 0.56 Garnacho 0.53 Ours: Isak 0.81 Barnes 0.65 Murphy 0.60 Gordon 0.46 Willock 0.46 but on low minutes I'm not saying he would be a bad signing and him being a possible backup for Isak too would be a positive but I firmly believe we could find someone better and younger for +£60m.

It's impossible for anyone outside the team to say someone isn't a good captain ffs.

Did Eddie mess the negotiations? Questions need to be asked.

Some drama this, like the same starting time on week 37 too.

Don’t think that’s a foul.

Interesting last 15 minutes here after Lazio equalized.

Wilson’s been fine here, done more than Isak in recent games. We are playing so well, just need to score.

No.

There’s no clear and obvious in offsides.

Concussed, good on him for coming off.

He’s Danish, Alan.

Think they help the ref a lot with their headset.

The late flag might have avoided a timeline where someone or even multiple people died at City Ground later on. We don’t have all the facts here.

Going just by odds it's like 10-15% chance, nowhere near VERY LIKELY.

Not raising the flag didn't do the damage, it was the goal post. Should we start a conversation about potentially removing those and have instead VAR decide whether a shot had been inside the digital goal posts?

I like Ultras for the base level of noise they keep but they also need help from the rest of the stadium. Prague derby was class, I felt like the Sparta Ultras were more reactive than the usual continental groups and the rest of the stadium were happy to often join. Was sitting in pretty posh seats equivalent to East Stand and most people around me joined the singing often and the atmosphere was one of the best I’ve experienced. Was also mindblowing that the stadium was pretty full an hour before the kickoff and the noise Ultras made during the warm up was deafening. Hate the attitude of many Ultra groups at least in Finnish hockey matches where they think signing the repetitive songs all game is the only right way to support. Best atmospheres always need the full stadium to react to the events on the pitch/ice to make it special, ultras are just like a band behind it all making the base noise.

Thought it was madness how Sunderland gave full control of the match to Coventry at home. Coventry are a big team and they had 45 crosses (!), were bound to score eventually. It's pretty rare that we have a performance like that.

He's 6 months younger than Pope and has a Transfermarkt value of 100k. Swapping Pope for him would be absolute madness.

Looked really bad, hope he recovers from it. Edit. Lineker too

Coventry keeper is embarrassing with all this tough guy act.

I would be furious if our keeper did something like that in any match, let alone a second leg of playoffs.

Exactly Rod!

Think it's between Burn, Tonali and Murphy for player of the season. Harsh on Isak but he's been poor for months now.

Heard rumblings that Merino might miss the match against us.