The College Dropout

Tbh we’ve played like this a lot since PSG away. That second half performance has been on repeat for us.

Diogo Jota won’t miss like Nunez.

Think Wilson has no assists too.

My biggest Eddie pet peeve is nearly all of his substitutes are pre-planned or reacting to goals conceded.

Isak milly rocking at Anfield again.

Similar goal we conceded against Forest. Midfield is nowhere.

We’ve been absolutely awful. The midfield is broken and Howe is doing nothing about it.

Need to get Jolinton in midfield and strengthen it up a bit. Need to stop Bruno pressing so high. He’s not winning anything.

Not having daft midfield setup. Bruno might get sent off in this match. He’s chasing shadows.

Miley Bruno Longstaff in this setup is awful.

It might not get reversed but it’s a dive.

He’s not as good technically for his position as the other 3.

Unless we sell Longstaff it just doesn’t make sense to me. Anyways.. I’ll be here complaining about us not getting Kudus or Palmer until we sign a proper baller at RW.

What’s that? I like him a lot. But he plays as a 10 at Forest. Not sure he has the positional discipline to play as a 8.

Tonali is meant to have physicality and work rate. So if we still believe in him what’s the point in getting Gallagher? Whole time Almiron and Murphy are our first choice right wingers. But we want Tonali, Longstaff, Gallagher to play RCM.

I think he’s a good player. But he’s similar to what we have. Somewhere between Longstaff and Tonali. Whole time we need guile.

Why are Diame and Tiote being compared? Different types of midfielders.

But that’s fatigue from 1 fatiguing event. What about a long series of fatiguing events? Again, using the bodybuilding example - large muscles like the hamstrings can take 2-3 days to return from fatigue. So you can only typically train them hard 2 or 3 times a week optimally. Assuming you have a full routine 4-6 days. You can’t just keep rotating body parts endlessly. Your CNS begins to fatigue. And after some amount of time, the whole system fatigues and you can’t keep up performance. That type of systemic fatigue takes longer than 3 days to recover from. Hope that makes sense.

If we won at Luton and Forest we would be on course for 70 points right? We are off pace. But not tremendously so.

Think Howe is a big fan of Robinson.

Well done.

Is that not from 1 match? When you play every 3 days for 8 weeks. You’re not going to be back out 100% with 5 days off. I’ve done some amateur weightlifting to a fairly high standard. Not anywhere like a professional football player but I assume fatigue works in the same way no matter the sport. If I’m highly fatigued from from 12 weeks of intense training. Where the fatigue has had a detrimental impact on my performance for 4 weeks straight, I would need more than 5 days to get back to close to baseline fitness. I assume footballers often play with a level a relatively high level of fatigue though. So relative lack of fatigue is more important than absolute fatigue.

Fortunately for Brentford they actually have to play football matches and they aren’t decided in advance.

I don’t think either were penalties too. But the refs gave it in both instances and the ‘there’s contact’ stops VAR from intervening. Weak as piss.

If fatigue is the primary issue - no imo. You would need closer to 7-14 days to get back to 90 minutes of full intensity.