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Trippier easily beats Burn in an areal duel

Ref doing some excellent shithousing to get Bruno sent off.

Isak has decided he is going to win the duel against Caicedo. Seems to have the upper hand at the moment too.

#1 spot is clear, but good set of candidates for the #2 spot.

Anderson although the youngest is a senior player and 20 years old, and has hardly played. How many younger than that has gotten any minutes this season? (hint: below 1) Paul Dummett was ready to get on against Everton (?). There are at least 15 teams who has given PL game time to U20 players this season. https://www.transfermarkt.com/premier-league/juengsteaelteste/wettbewerb/GB1 Always ready to be proven wrong, but at the moment I'll maintain it's pointless recalling him from international duty.

Growing up in the 90's Coventry belongs in the PL for me. Bring back Steve Ogrizovic, Gary McAllister, Peter Ndlovu, Paul Telfer, Julian Darby, John Salako and Dion Dublin

Don't see the point. Howe has shown 0 commitment to giving youth players game time. He'll play Paul Dummet in midfield before this guy gets a sniff whether he's better than Dummett or not unless we're like 4 goals up with 3 minutes left on the clock.

They didn't play like Man City, but I also thought they did excellent at what they were trying to do, ref. 54's post:

Sunderland keeper completely gave up there. When the ball hit the side of the net he was the Sunderland player closest to the Luton goal

He's no Laurent Robert that Patrick Roberts

Sunderland players are tiny compared to Lutons.

Can't believe he is a left back based on the positions he gets himself into on the clips I've seen Looks truly two footed, strong, nippy dribbling but not very quick.

Nunes - Ugarte - Neves would both be one of the most talented midfields in the league while also one of the worst. Like a super version of our Butt-Smith-Geremi one.

https://www.thescore.com/engch/news/2646825/cardiff-start-civil-action-in-dispute-with-nantes-over-sala-fee Someone burn that club down to the ground pls.

Did I just imagine that he has confirmed in an interview that he needs treatment on his ankle when the season is over? Think opposing teams knows it as well. Been a few times now where they've gone in on his ankle intentionally to wind him up, and it seems to have worked a few times where he's been really angry and/or frustrated by some tackles, probably out of anxiety of making things worse.

More suited to our style of play physically (taller, stronger, faster). More used to our style of play. Looks to have better technique, is younger with higher ceiling. I'd say it's easier to stand out in a poor team than in a good team stats wise, especially when the whole team is tailored to get the most out of someone like Maddison. Besides, 8 goals and 13 assists compared to 10 goals and 9 assists isn't a huge difference. I bet Szoboszlai has prevented more goals being conceded compared to lazy James Maddison.

One being better than the other.

Today, I feel blue.

Same, and was painfully obvious he was the better player out of him, Shelvey and Diame. Should have been given more playing time to get back in shape after his injury despite the form the other two were in. Will never agree with the people saying he was weak for moving to get more playing time instead of fighting for his spot. On an unrelated note, why do all of our recent-ish class managers do some weird stuff that is just infuriatingly annoying? SBR playing Viana wide left instead of phasing out Speed, Benitez not playing Merino, Howe persisting with Burn (let's hope we don't see Isak starting wide left regularly too to now to accommodate both him and Wilson).

Maddison UEL signing Szoboszlai CL signing

Fucking Arsenal putting up that performance against us at St. James' Park just to follow it up with this crap, which also leaves Brighton more motivated to get something from their game against us as well.

Comments like these man Please take a deep breath and count to 10 before you hit that post button.

We looked tired as fuck throughout the entire game. So much sloppy play. Not sure if it's due to nerves or simply expecting the game to be easier than it was. Lucky point in the end imo.

Shocking start, but Howe has done excellent changes by putting Isak central and Bruno down as the holding mid. We have more control on the game now.