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I generally don’t think Burn is up to much at LB in possession, but he was quality tonight I thought. Better defensively than offensively, obviously, but didn’t find myself griping at him much. Certainly not when compared to a few others!

Can play anywhere across the back four and in DM, he could well be AI.

Akanji might be my favourite defender in the league.

Five extra seconds

Howay Cal man

Kovacic putting on a clinic here like

Howay lads, just one chance.

Bruno again ffs

Tino on for Miggy anyone? Just for more legs as much as anything.

Would Phil Foden be the best player for any other team in the league?

They did this to Man Utd last season, when they’re up for it and on it teams can barely lay a glove on them. We can’t play much worse though, to look inwardly a bit, quite a few looking a bit rattled by their quality.

They’re so good

Howay!

Kicked off yet? Am I just miles behind?

Is your TV switching its settings depending on the channel you're on?

I am once again asking for good refereeing decisions.

Pels were always around 0.8 on the early xG models, not sure if that's changed much.

It's honestly nothing to get vexed about. Back when I was involved it was a bollocking if we didn't know the opposing XI and bench well in advance of kick-off. City, especially, will have something near a 100% hit rate in their analyst's opposing XI predictions these days, I'd imagine. They've had a section of their analysis department dedicated to it for well over a decade now.

Yorkie can I interest you in the new "Rich" subscription?

Fucking spoilers everywhere today. Ruined the 7pm team announcement for me.

Synopsis of the segment:

Just wait until later on...

From £5/6M (can't remember) a season and a shite percentage on anything sold (reading into Silverstone's comments in the episode) to "potentially hundreds of millions". Even if you put aside everything else that's shite about Castore, the difference the deal will make to our long-term prospects is incredible.

Oof. Wolves are in trouble this season, like.