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Good test of this side's maturity if Arsenal score.

Proper this

He's having a good game. People have crazy expectations of him IMO. He's not playing against you and me, Arsenal's defence is mean! He's stretching them and generating chances.

Great half.

I don't like Murphy. There I said it. Great opportunity for him to put significant egg on my face. Do it Murphy.

I hope not. Hall is still very lightweight and his defensive positional awareness still needs work.

Cracking idea.

I reckon Arsenal will come out with a concerted plan to try and get Newcastle players carded/sent off.

This would be useful. Villa have a few very winnable games coming up.

I do wonder what the Cartel's private conversations are in relation to the growing Newcastle/Villa/Forest/Bournemouth problem. It's coming from them at too many angles. They can't pilfer all the key players across multiple teams, and for the likes of Bournemouth it's deeper than personnel alone. Spurs must be close to being 'foegotten' off the next invite

Brentford can be a decent watch when Daamsgard, Mbuemo and Wissa are on it tbf. I do like the slam though

Yup, great 3 points. Battle for a Europe is wide open. Not a great performance IMO.

Should be a game to run up the goal difference after Bournemouth. Playing a bit too direct, which is not unusual tbf.

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For the 16 other people in the world playing the FPL Challenge, they've wildly overestimated the volume of blockbuster January signings for this week's gimmick They should let Chalobah being recalled from loan count at least.

Howe mentioned it:

Agree that it's not a disaster, but Bournemouth have beaten or stymied us too often IMO to call it a one-off, or a bad day at the office. We only play them twice or three times a year, thankfully. But that doesn't give me that much comfort.

Same, joke's on the Bournemouth fans. Suckers!

Can we sign Iraola for our coaching staff?

Respectfully, what has this got to do with today? Our first XI is considerably better than theirs. As was our bench. They were better coached and had more intensity. Not a disaster but it's definitely a wasted opportunity, and opens the door for others to apply use a similar blueprint at SJP.

That second goal is annoying. Each possession becomes that much more loaded, as they'll sit back and invite us on to them. Hard to get the ball off and danger if we press too much. Plus time wasting and irritation for our hotheads.

Just need to show the ruthlessness and intensity we showed against Arsenal. Requires a complete 45 minutes and a bit more confidence on the ball.

Feel my own blood pressure up after that first half But mainly pissed with how lax we've been. Defence has been utter shite on the ball. Missing Schar badly.

Well exploited by Bournemouth though.

Agreed.