The College Dropout

Best move of the match. Worst decision of the match from one of ours.

Controlling possession is one thing. Having decent possession is another, more basic problem. Barely a period after the first goal where we had the better of the ball for even a couple minutes.

Danny Simpson has always been a good defender. Looked better going forward yesterday and looked very determined. Looked more "fresh" yesterday.

Promising debut. Natural overlap.

Even Graeme fucking Souness understood the concept of counter attacking threat.

Starting Shola turned out to be a good decision. Cisse wide? Poor. It never makes sense. Rather Jonas/Obertan and we saved Cisse as an impact sub if needed to change things. Biggest problem, sitting far too deep when we take a lead. Some pressure is to be expected, a couple good saves but Milan weren't so deep yesterday. They had 5-6 good chances in a 20 minute spell. It's not fucking good enough. You can't consistently win European KO matches like that. You look at our runs under SBR, heck even Souness. These are men that have been in European competitions and won them. As managers or players. Has Alan Pardew ever had a successful European cup run? Some managers have it. Like SAF, Mourinho straight away. Others learn in time so there's hope. But atm, he doesn't know what he's doing.

Bad decision not squaring it for Shola. But that was the best move of the whole match, passed and moved twice excellently to work himself into that position

Wish we had a manager of SBR back. Really do. Cisse on the wing? Heavens above we won't get as far as we should with this cretin in charge.

They need to score twice. Why are we being so defensive?

The way we play once we score man....

Fuck me we haven't been this bad in Europe for a long time.

Cabs

Fuck me we are rocking.

Pardew doesn't see Anita as the deepest midfielder does he?

They need two, so they'll push hard. Counter them to death please.

SHOLA TIME!

Haidara in danger of being sent off.

Poor decision.

You would think Shola will be on the bench and brought off just in case it does go to shootouts. However, knowing Pards, Shola will play the whole 120 minutes and keel over on the run up for his penalty kick.

IMO being at home is a disadvantage for shootouts. Support turns into pressure.

Other way around for me. First thing you do when your on a bad run, stop conceding and get the clean sheets in. Then you go looking for some goals.

15 cleansheets for us last season with Tiote-Cabaye proving a formidable partnership despite often being outnumbered in midfield.

I used to think the away goals at ET was unfair but otherwise the away team woudl always play for penalties.

What he means is if the match is 0-0 at FT, and it's 1-1 at ET, we go through.

He was better in his second season truthfully.