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It really isn't a mystery, put him on the left and we might have a different player. On the right he's not PL level.

100% agree that we are a for more effective team with Longstaff and Murphy than Willock and Almiron right now, even with the limitations of the aforementioned players.

On the plus side, all this game has done has build the case for Anderson even further.

Only Trippier and Targett look up before crossing, Willock, Fraser, Almiron, and Ritchie are heads-down players that have no clue where anyone is until they look up, it's not PL-level play. So often they just lump it in after staring at the ball/ground as they try to take it past someone as they have no idea who's in the box.

Almiron is like that player on FIFA pro clubs who only knows one move and holds L1+R1 the entire time and has no idea where any of his teammates are .

The co-commentator on my river thought the difficulty lay in the keeper actually sighting the shot to begin with, but yes it was a comfortable height and distance from where he was positioned.

Isak, known to be shit in the air, wins his one header in the box and angles it down and towards goal. Whereas Wood....

Isak coming deep and getting involved again.

GTFI

We have no idea what to do.

Tinhat, I think he offers a lot more than Almiron.

Congratulations to Ryan Fraser on winning his first header of his career, by the looks of it

The two most important positions on the pitch in the build up for the final third are the wide players, and our wide players are on a different planet to the rest of our team in terms of their ability in their position.

See, Isak deep gets on the ball and makes opportunities. Having him push their defensive line back is a complete was of his skillset.

Needs to be given licence to come deep and collect the ball like he did at Liverpool. It's worrying that for all our possession and great retention, the instructions to Wilson, Wood and Isak are exactly the same, hang off the shoulder off the last defender to push their defensive line back. It means we almost never can pull the defenders out of their line and we have no interplay with Joelinton/Bruno/Willock moving up as Isak drops in. To me it's basics, I have no idea why Howe does this.

Nah he went to Man Utd

Isak alive!

Isak dead

Bournemouth look like competition winners today, they really haven't done anything so far.

We are a team transformed with Bruno, he's so important to us.

Fair enough, let's see what happens on Saturday

I might be thinking of a pre-season one Ok my point is less valid now, but I do think he's capable of playing a good pass forwards and takes the onus off Bruno a bit, I'd have him in front of Bruno and Joelinton personally so he's less exposed with his pace defensively. I think Willock is stronger in a game like City where we're going to be under the cosh and he can break with pace.

Agreed with his general passing ability, but he's directly laid on at least two assists an assist this season that I can remember. I don't see what Willock is bringing currently