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shhhhhh

The fist pump by Pardew at the end like it was his master plan that led to the goal brings me back to the ground after watching some HBA magic.

Too little time for my slow brain. 12 :/ Would have gotten a few more if I could have mulled over it for 2 more minutes.

25 years old. Hardly a young talent at that age unless your name is Shola Ameobi.

You mean apart from the fact he’s much better on the left than right? He isn’t suited to playing as a inverted right winger how Bruce can’t see that is worrying. He should switch Almiron & Saint-Maximin or at least have them swapping sides during the game. Most of Saint-Maximin’s goals&assists in France came from the right too. The only reason Maximin is playing on the left is because he’d rather spend the game coming inside and doing 99999 unproductive step-overs while Bruce pats him on the back and Lee Ryder gives him a 10/10 match rating The front 3 is basically being played how Saint-Maximin would play it on FIFA. Ah, so it's Saint-Maximins vanity, Ryders low standards and Bruce's stupidity that is conspiring together to keep Almiron down that is hindering him controlling a ball becasue he's incapable of doing anything productive on the right side of a football field. Duly noted.

Don't see why that should be the case, or even how you can be so certain of that. The main problem to me seems that he's too wide and isolated. Not that he's on the "wrong" side.

God damnit, you stole my post! I'd switch #1 and #2 though.

Don't see what the big deal is about him playing left of right. Most wingers are inverted these days. If anything it should make it easier for him to score. Almiron would perform just as good on the right under Rafa as on the left imo. His game was never to cross from the left anyway.

No return date on physioroom. Latest update from yesterday: Nov 25: "He seen a specialist and he said to give him another rest. We will see what happens in the next couple of weeks but at the moment he is still not ready."

Ritchie

Doesn't matter who's up top the way the team is set up. When the ball is hoofed up to the striker the central midfield is usually right outside our own box. The wingers are a bit further up, but almost hugging the touch line. The striker will have 3 or more opposition players to fend off. We'd need a striker that possesses the strength and hold up play of Shearer combined with the dribling of Messi and pace of Vardy to make it work.

Put in El Ghazi only for this fixture which was a nice added bonus to end off a decent game week Top 3 are Norwegians now. Time to step it up brexitnoobs.

So far he's been like a Gutierrez without end product, however weird that sounds

Need to get Little Luck and Little Magic on asap.

We really weren’t “so good” 1st half we were. Dont under estimate the shitness of that West ham team.

Should have fell over when receiving the ball there and it would have summed up Almiron as a player in one attack.

Interviewing a youtuber that makes videos of the match day experience thus profits more, the more interest there is in the club gee I wonder what he will say.

Feel a bit bad for Froggy. Everyone on here are seemingly triggered by the fact he isn't demanding instant success like a lot of the kneejerk noise you see in social media. BuT hE hAs a TeAm WoRtH XXX mIlLiOns. Doens't mean fuck all tbh. What's important is that the players OGS has brought in has done well and he's putting down a good foundation for the future. He's given a chance to a lot of youth players managers like Mourinho f.ex wouldn't even give a sniff.

If Kinnear and Carver can get the Newcastle job, BRUCE can!

Yup. I like the guy but he's pulling us back into the "all you need is a little bit of magic/luck"-era we had under Pardew which sadly does seem to work if you just want to stay above the worst teams in the league. Best we can hope for is that they're not able to replace the talent as they are sold on in the future for profit.

Mousset must be an absolute pain to play against in this team though. Great fought by him, especially after getting wrongly punished for the same moments earlier.

Great atmosphere at Bramall Lane

Last tournament shouldn't bare any weight on how a team is seeded in the next tournament. Find it weird how France can be lower seeded than Ukraine when they have more points, better goal difference and more goals scored than them though.

Imagine if all new technology was scrapped after not working perfectly within 4 months VAR will come good. It will never be perfect but it will be miles better and fairer than the refereeing we've had up until now.

I'd easily swap Blackburns 90's with ours. Not even a question. Their 90's are pretty comparable to ours, just that they actually have something in the trophy room to show for it. Wouldn't swap the Keegan years for a lucky league cup run though.