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Pathetic from McClean. Got to track Kolarov.

Valencia is injured. They are likely to line up in a 4-4-2 diamond with Rooney behind RVP and Hernandez.

I get the feeling he might be a bit one dimensional to play left midfield. He may get found out a bit like McClean at Sunderland. He'd be a nightmare to track for any right winger in the left though.

Its going to be really depressing watching Simpson start at right back when we all know we'd be much better off with Fergie at left back and Santon right back.

How many times has he given it away tonight? Worse than ever.

Harsh on Bobby when it was Souness who sold him.

Ben Arfa has two. one of them being assist of the season What was the other one?

Aye, in their collective outrage at Ba's goal, their selective memories have forgotten all about this little beauty... God I remember absolutely seething over that. Was that from a corner? We would have scored from a corner too if it was!

Good side. Except leaving Simpson on the right hand by himself is asking for us to be utter shit. Santon from the left also means no natural width. Santon right back and Fergie left back and that side looks good.

He's too deep almost all of the time. He needs to be freed up. We should be playing him high up the pitch for three reasons. 1. He can control the ball, so we can ping it into him and he's a good out ball. 2. He'll be committing defenders rather than midfielders when he skins them. 3. If we win the ball high up the pitch, he'll tear teams apart. As it is, he's far too deep so when he beats a player, he looks up and there's another one there. We should be giving him a free role to do whatever he wants.

Why can't we change something before we go behind? We all knew this was coming, so why is Jonas still on the park? Why are we still playing 4-4-2? Insanity.

We've never seen him go past a full back?

Would love us to take Jonas off for Fergie.

He definately wasn't as good as his brother. Will probably make a decent squad player.

Took a few good corners. Should be in the team for that alone.

The decision making on show today was horrendous. Anita and Ben Arfa were two of our best players and came off. If Anita doesn't play right back when we put Tiote back in, it will be a joke. His crossing is exceptional.

Is that a joke? Nope, he's done a lot of unspectacular stuff, tidied up a few times and hit the post too, so a tidy game in my eyes. This lot are pathetic. I expect more from a box to box/attacking midfielder than one shot at goal and then a load of passing back to his centre halves. No composure or ability to put his foot on the ball.

Is that a joke?

If Demba really thinks what his agent his saying, it's nothing short of a disgrace really. Look at the rest of the squad. Perch, Anita and Taylor being prime examples of players playing all over the place. Even Hatem has played mostly from the right when he made it clear he wanted to play through the middle. Hopefully Pards quotes are right and it's just his agent being an arse.

I always knew that there was a strong chance I wouldn't get a ticket. Booked up anyway, doing 3 nights so can probably enjoy it. The Thursday should be quality with thousands of Toon fans watching the game in the city. Going to be epic when Shola batters them.

Gosling, Ferguson and Sammy played 90 minutes which suggests they won't on Thursday. Especially Sammy and Ferguson who are just back from injury. Suggests a few first teamers might play in centre mid and full back.

And that back problem could be caused by his hair! I'm sure our physios and doctors know more than you do.

At least his crosses actually meant something. We nearly scored from 2. He has to play at right back until January for me. Jonas can do a job in the middle with Tiote until then.

Really? Commentator said Ba on my French stream. I take that bit back then. His performance was still very poor though!

Shocking today. That overhit pass when Colo was in cost us the match and was schoolboy stuff. His touch and decision making has been terrible for quite a while now.