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Must be expecting a lot of goals..

Commentators have no idea who that is in the stands

Remember that's the bit that many posters say keeps him in the team ahead of Ramsdale

Botman sprinting is like watching QWOP

Murphy's pass into Woltemade was asked for by Woltemade, and was perfect, and Woltemade knew where Barnes was, don't underestimate Big Nick's orchestration of getting the ball to Barnes

Great goal lad, well done. Hope that counts as a Woltemade assist

Ramsey's not had many minutes the past few weeks, hopefully he can the fresh spark we need, someone to receive the passes at speed from Bruno and Tonali

I'm not sure how Howe changes this with the personnel he has on the pitch. If you play the same players every game in Europe and the league you're sort of fked by November/December. They're all fatigued, mentally and physically. Don't underestimate all the travel in the international break too.

Won't disagree but with correct positioning you can make some of your own luck I think. Shot stopping and defensive positioning, none better than Pope around imo

We just look drained. It's not surprising with the absolute minimum of rotation, the squad management does have to be questioned really.

Twice Murphy's received a ball running back towards our goal, controls it, and finds a blue shirt with a nice pass to feet. What is going on

4-5-1 out of possession with Barnes moving over to help Burn

I'd rather we take shots than not all things being equal, maybe he should have let rip earlier but better than just recycling it back imo, good to get rebound opportunities, deflections, saves going out for corners etc.

We're going man for man out of possession, very risky against pace, hopefully it pays off

Poor bloke bugles are hard though tbf

Tbf man for man, that back 5 should on paper with Hall and Livra is incredibly strong. But only if we lose weaker players like Joelinton from midfield as a result

Works for me like

Think I might need to change my avatar, beginning to think someone at the club is using it as a measure of public opinion

Well if Howe ever needs to fire up his team all he has to do is give them logins to this forum tbh

Aye, I'm in the minority I know but I actually enjoy the build up with the pundits and whatnot. With more games on at the same time they seem to be spread thin and you'd be lucky to get 5-10 minutes about your team before the match now.

While we're going nuts with players playing out of position, Barnes up top with Woltemade behind with Hall on the left wing is my wet dream currently.

🤔 😁 😁

Murphy to me is the equivalent of a heavyweight puncher of a boxer. Not much in the way of footwork, defence, creating openings with jabs, but if he's given the space and opportunity he'll land that heavy swing with a fantastic cross or a shot. But elsewise not too much there.

With good feet and passing like that, calm under pressure, I think he'd be very capable on the left up top too. We've seen he's not afraid of taking a shot, and the potential interplay between Woltemade and himself is droolworthy.

If he's off to anywhere at any point I don't think it'll be another English team - I can see him going to Madrid tbh.