Ronaldo

Every time Anita's been mentioned he's given the ball away. Inspired stuff to play him RW.

In reality Rafa should just switch him and Anita really. Its easier to attack from right back. He should sub Anita and put on someone who can play someway attacking but that's not going to happen That's the thing. Don't think Rafa will play an attacking player on that side with Janmaat, which is frustrating, but it's who he is. Madness would've been a better word.

In reality Rafa should just switch him and Anita really. His best quality is overlapping the winger. Rafa should put Ritchie infront of him and bring Perez on for Anita. It's really not rocket science, like.

Lowes: Keeper should have done so much better. Sky: Great save from the keeper.

A fucking goal from open play. Who knew?

Dummett to take it.

Anita still on the wing, man. This is atrocious.

There's not two defensive midfielders though 3 last week, 2 this week. Count. Who are the two defensive midfielders? Unless Anita isn't playing on the wing as per the team sheet then there's only Hayden. And Anita. He's a DM, not a winger. He's about as much a winger as Colback's a striker. I agree that Anita shouldn't be playing and get your point that he'll offer nothing, but we're not setup playing a formation with 2 defensive midfielders. This was my point given that people are saying the formation is setup negative. It's not, we just have a shit player on the wing that we don't want there (because Ritchie had a knock). We've got Anita on the wing, another DM in the centre and 1 striker on the field at home to Huddersfield and that's not a negative setup? Fuck off, man.

This is it like. Even under Rafa this has never changed. We never play fucking football, just ponderous crap followed by crosses into the box. Only times we ever look decent is now and again when a game is open and stretched and we do some shit on the break. And we can forget about that happening too much this season.

Problem is we'll probably play long balls to him.

There's not two defensive midfielders though 3 last week, 2 this week. Count. Who are the two defensive midfielders? Unless Anita isn't playing on the wing as per the team sheet then there's only Hayden. And Anita. He's a DM, not a winger. He's about as much a winger as Colback's a striker.

There's not two defensive midfielders though 3 last week, 2 this week. Count.

We've got a poor and extremely imbalanced team on the field. Same as last week. We've known for 8 days we needed to sign a striker and a winger and as per usual we've failed on both counts.

I can just about live with us playing one DM away to Man City, like. Playing two at home to Huddersfield is a complete pisstake.

Don't have to be is an understatement. We should avoid being rigid at all costs.

Wouldn't call Shelvey "sitting" like, as he doesn't give a f*** about defending. I wouldn't either, and didn't. Isn't Anita playing on the wing? That just makes it worse. He's a fucking sitting midfielder.

Wouldn't call Shelvey "sitting" like, as he doesn't give a fuck about defending. I wouldn't either, and didn't.

It hardly 2 sitting midfielders ffs Anita and Hayden are sitting midfielders, regardless of where on the pitch the former is giving the ball away.

I'm not sure it'd make great viewing anyway, like. 2 sitting midfielders and 1 striker against Huddersfield.

2 sitting mids, ugh.

Which players were absent from the bench despite being fit and available last week? He obviously means Tiote and someone else. It couldn't have been Sissoko because he wasn't in full training with the squad till a couple of days ago.

The difference between Rafa and the shit we had from 04-16, man. Night and day doesn't do it justice.