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Strong disagree, Longstaff going down never looks natural. Gets the timing wrong (either too late or early) and just looks clumsy doing it. Bruno is the complete opposite and master of it.

Aye, he has no idea how to go down convincingly.

I'm probably missing a word there. When he goes down it never looks like he's being fouled and somehow today thought staying up was the right call when he felt Yates' studs on his knee. He has really cut off the dives lately to be fair to him but took it a bit too far today. Refs/VAR also once again proving that you will not get the call without embellishing.

Taylor showed advantage. If Yates does that to Bruno he's 100% off, poor Sean just don't know how to go down.

The one on Longstaff was way worse IMO.

Eddie should show Gordon some Joelinton tape.

Longstaff just has no awareness when he should be going down. If Yates does that to Bruno he's getting sent off.

Looked more than good enough at RW, his versatility is such an advantage. I'm certain he'll be playing CB for us at some point.

What?

It’s an away game against in form side and only difference has been a set piece. We’ve been better than them.

We’ve been alright but Forest are defending really well, no space in the middle at all. This would be a match for Wilson if he was available. Gordon has to do something, walking back from offside after not getting the ball looks really bad. Taylor has obviously been shocking.

Are you a professional athlete? Obviously we don't know all the facts of what has happened but getting mortal in public mid-season is very unprofessional. It will take a surprisingly long time for an athlete's body to fully recover from it. In the age of advanced sports science and social media it's just something you don't do anymore as a professional athlete. Tough times etc. but it's disappointing from a senior player seen as a leader.

It’s a shame for him how his career so far has been ruined by injuries. He’s pretty much the perfect RB and imo one of the most talented footballers England has produced in some time. Like hand picking the best attributes from Trippier, TAA and Walker and combining them to form one ultimate RB.

Reece James is (was?) all those when fit tbf.

It really isn't, he's trying to play the ball with his feet. Ball would have rolled to Raya but because it happened to hit Merino's hand Inter are gifted a penalty. Rules are shambles.

Ridiculous penalty for Inter, what is Merino supposed to do?

There are certainly more interesting matches every round but it still feels like the results don't really matter. Last rounds should be different but I'm firmly in the team meh when we are not participating compared to groups of four teams.

Trump also won.

Class pen from Vini

Feel like this is just way too premature, just a rough patch while missing their best player.

But Havertz is really good?

You didn't believe few days ago.

I look at xG more than most here but find your posts completely unnecessary here. We dropped down a bit after taking the lead and Arsenal had no idea what to do outside set pieces and that one cross to Rice. Very much a match where eye test>xG or stats as they had no idea how to break us down. 0.59 for that header seems way too high in any case.

Their total xG was 0.67 on your graph. Do the math genius.

I have no doubt we could’ve created more xG if it was needed. Dropped back a bit in the second half and it was as comfortable as it has ever been.