Kanj

Ahh ok, they made some rules to battle this, didn't know exactly.

Tonali is trying to play quickly though its often 1 touch stuff.

Would like to see Hall and Murphy

wish our next game was some fucking tragically shite club at home.

I kind of always assumed Gordon would be the Almiron competition tbh.

Suddenly people think we'll lose and stand no chance. Wonderful.

Feel like last season we’d be laying down, Howe would talk to our players. We’d settle down and get a grip again.

I would like to see the gamesmanship return mind you. The random “injury” in the first or second half to give Howe 2 mins to speak to his players. The shithousing to slow the opposition down, etc. it seems like we’ve been playing to be liked the last 3 matches versus the mantra of last season — “we are not here to be liked; we are here to compete”

This is the sort of stuff that top managers learn from - Pep, Klopp, and name the rest of the greats have ALL had days like yesterday. It’s what happens after this that defines them, based on Howe’s season and half with us I back him to learn heavily from the last 2 matches and while it may not click initially, the solutions will be found, the work will be done at the training ground and in game management will be retooled.

Salah’s pass split both Burn and Targett, like. It was actually a perfect ball.

Having watched that pass back…fuck man. It was so unnecessary.

I’m smitten over him.

We gotta leave Sandro on the pitch man, 90 minutes.

^^^^^^^

He wasn’t.

Had we played two non top 5 teams in games 2 and 3 we’d be on 9 points. I’m glad this education and reflection for Howe is happening now. We will be stronger because of it. However painful today is. Because it quite frankly still is.

struggling with his decision there. I was convinced that was game over for them.

If he somehow is fine for the weekend or one extra week he’s truly a fucking cyborg

Same. Our right wing has to be a maverick-ish player or I’m telling you they need to stick Isak there and play him with Wilson and Gordon/Barnes. love you Miggy but we are not doing ourselves justice with Alex and Wilson not playing together.

Chiesa. And we’re storming for the title.

Ya I realize he was losing the ball a bit towards the end but feel like last season someone has a lie down and we talk that out.

their 2 goals were insane in terms of bounces falling perfectly.

I miss when we’d have a random injury for 5 mins to just chill out and regroup. We haven’t done that a single time this season when it was constant last season.

this is it for me. We’ve done it at home 4 times > Chelsea. Man United. Tottenham and Brighton. We lacked that fight and spirit today. Was fear I saw. This is where I feel we need another Trippier head in midfield, even late on in games.

Genuinely worried about Botman’s injury