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Thought his slide to get on the end of the cross (by Murphy?) was stellar as well, was a great run into the penalty area.

He covered loads of ground, the most out of all our players, slightly ahead of Bruno. He just didn't have the ball most of the time.

It really was. I said early in the week that we'd need to score 3 to win this one because I knew we'd concede, but at 3-1 down I was basically chucking in the season. The way we play with a high intensity press needs a back four with pace, and preferably CMs who are pretty athletic too. We are a mess defensively, but with the right personnel we could fix that. One thing which was really heartening though was how we never chucked in the towel. If anything we got stronger as players kept dropping like flies and replaced with subs. It says a lot about the team spirit in our squad, and whatever you might think about our tactics, you have to give Howe credit for that. This team gives everything for him and that's not all that common in professional football.

Well that went from the depths of despair to euphoria. Absolutely amazing game, one which will go down in folklore.

We could have scored 6 in the second half.

That's a strike from Valhalla

What a fucking goal!!!!

Fucking hell!

Aye, thought there was a bit of that for the first one as well tbh, but this one was worse.

Has Isak ever missed a penalty?

Don't think it's a pen personally, Gordon didn't get a touch on the ball. But I'll take it.

Wtf are you on about? Just because I can see we don't have what it takes to get to Europe doesn't mean I stop supporting the team. I'm just not living in la la land.

Not that hard to explain. We are forced into playing too many players who aren't the shithousing type. They are the type to get shithoused.

We can support them and care, but we are done. Wanting it to be different won't make it so.

We've not had much luck this season, but when the opposition get the freedom of the pitch to run on goal with no defence in sight, it's not just bad luck.

We concede the same goals game after game, there's no getting away from it.

What did he do to earn the 2?

Sorry but Howe's coaching is going to get called into question after this shambles.

One pass into empty space and there you go. Predictable as fuck.

Great run by Willock but that's a weak cross.

We'll score second half, but we'll probably concede at least one, that's the problem.

Story of our season tbh. High press, no midfield and a turgid defence that gets exposed week after week.

I'm worried about that as well.

I know that might be a bit tongue in cheek, but Kudus is showing the fire that's missing from some of our lads, Longstaff and to some extent, Willock as well.

Didn't feel like we came out in the first half tbh.