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Love how mental he is. Reckon the goals will come if he stays on the pitch and we build on this against the lesser teams. Needs to be same team next week with same intensity we had first half. Only chance we have to not get hammered

Play at that tempo all season and we will win at least 2 games :-). It made a massive difference. Unfortunate we let them back in it, but positive moves, with Mbabu, Perez trusted to play and both were class

He was really good last week when every other player bar Janmaat was s*** Ah seriously, the lad can't play football. He hasn't been good for 2 years and our so called best player looked lost today while the rest stepped up

His confidence was unreal, Pedro go fuck all out of him. He's meant to be a centre half isn't he ?

The lad was class. Looks composed and not remotely bothered by the step up. I liked our back 4 today

He was shit and has been for a while. Every other player had good games

Exactly Maddening people can't see this. I've also never seen him bottle a tackle, when did this start? I saw him at 5ft 5 put that giant sheff Wed defender on his arse. Never seen him bottle anything despite his size. For bottling see Wijnaldum, sissoko n Jack Passback

This is the thing. People expect him to perform miracles and play it through the opposition. The few times people are in space like obertan was he is more than capable of finding the pass. He has shown he can be quick with his distribution, moves off the ball and generally finds the space available. He's better than people make out and is hampered by the retards in front of him

He was disgusting, giving ball away every time, looked weak as piss and just stood on his man half the time. He needs dropped to see if it jolts him

I don't even think defence is our issue any more. It's the 3 attacking midfielders and striker losing ball so much and creating fuck all meaning ball comes straight back and we are under pressure time and time again. Every time the back 4 or deep midfielder has ball there is no one trying to slot into space or taking their marker for a run to open up space. It's pedestrian

You're nuts. He can't even manage a forward pass with the whole game infront of him. With less time and space he's not going to show more ambition on the ball mate. That's funny because I remember quite a few forward passes from him on Wed. Out to wings or some decent over the top balls towards De Jong. He has more awareness than the rest of them and sees the angles. Jack Sidepass is a lot worse in his movement and passing. Anita never stops moving and is quick to release the ball. If he had 2 decent midfielders in front of him it would be great but none of them show for the ball and let themselves get marked tight meaning the only ball he can play is to the side or back a lot of time. Him, Janmaat and Mbemba are the only three players that looked like they gave a shit / had any level of quality

No idea where we go next. Totally broken as a club and like many others don't think it's just one thing. It's a hurricane of shit, part coaching, part management, part shit players and a total lack of desire. There is no heart in this club and the football is completely abysmal. Players that seriously cant string passes together at this level or even have a meaningful shot at goal.

I would suggest try watching the game before commenting, Sissoko was one of out best players today, probably only one of three that can hold their heads high. I would suggest I have seen every game in last few years and held season ticket for 24 year and seen enough s**** to recognise it. You seriously think him getting out muscled off the ball every time or failing to influence a f***ing thing is him being the best player ? Doesn't shoot, can't pass, has no creativity and is s*** defensively but f*** it lets congratulate the useless c*** for running past his man twice Outmuscled off the ball. In a game where he's holding off players for fun before releasing Janmaat. No surprise though, I've seen enough planks at St James who think the sun shines out of Pardew and Colback's arse. You need to read back a bit, I hated Pardew n Colback. Did you see him get beaten to the ball time and time again. Did you watch as he stood static rather than jump with nobody around him, no? Thought not - maybe you should open your eyes and see his limitations rather than the odd forest gump run that does fuck all

He really wasn't, take ya blinkers off. What are his main qualities because except for running quite fast I really struggle

Struggling to be convinced we have the players to do much better after last few games. We seem to struggle with the basics and can't play at a decent tempo. No idea what happens next

I would suggest try watching the game before commenting, Sissoko was one of out best players today, probably only one of three that can hold their heads high. I would suggest I have seen every game in last few years and held season ticket for 24 year and seen enough shite to recognise it. You seriously think him getting out muscled off the ball every time or failing to influence a fucking thing is him being the best player ? Doesn't shoot, can't pass, has no creativity and is shit defensively but fuck it lets congratulate the useless cunt for running past his man twice

There's nothing in this league for either of us. Start again with young academy players would be my preference. Just sick of the shit served up and not fooled by the odd game trying

It's worrying how clueless we look going forward mind. He has had pre season, been a whore in the press and we are getting worse every game. That was shocking today and he needs to start dropping players like Colback, Cisse n Sissoko to at least send a message. Sissoko is 6ft2 and never jumps to win a ball / dominates fuck all / struggles to control or influence a game

Lad next to me singing his praises, yet he was fucking awful. How come players like Anita, Aarons, Perez maybe Armstrong do not get given as many anonymous games as this fucker or Oberwank or any other shit we stick with, instead they get slated after 1 or 2 sub appearances or the odd 90 mins.

? Really. There was a situation in the first half where he'd already been beaten by pace from their full back and he then tried to beat the same man on the outside with pace and failed miserably. Most of the rest of the time he ran in to dead ends, held on to the ball too long and failed to contribute anything of significance. I'd have took him off. He's a long way from being anywhere near good enough for the money he cost. I think he looks shit. He's weak as piss and tbh no different to Cabella

Sissoko was our best starting player out of the entire midfield and Cisse, not exactly a keenly contested prize but wanting him dropped based on the performance in the last game in comparison to others is strange He was terrible and cannot pass a ball. He runs in straight lines and is in no way a right winger. Cisse even though he has a knack of getting goals harms our game in every other way. We need a forward to hold up and bring others into play. He really doesn't and barely troubles defenders at times when they need to be rattled. Perez and Mitrovic will do that Sissoko is an odd player to single out from Monday night as playing badly. He was better than every starting player bar the back four. You say he runs in straight lines but that running in straight lines brought us further up the pitch when everybody else was happy to pass the ball sideways around the halfway line It's not that odd when I have been saying it for last 2 years. We lack fluidity and he is part of the problem, not the only one as I have said in other posts that Cisse and Wijnaldum in number 10 means we lack a lot of guile, movement and threat in front 4. Wijnaldum further back will work, Sissoko was tried there and is an odd player. Thauvin was terrible but on few games played and needs more time before judgement on his capabilities

Sissoko in a 3 might be better as he can break, but out wide he's shocking. I would rather we did go 4-3-3 with Sissoko, Anita and Wijnaldum than the current 4-2-3-1 that doesn't work for us. It opens things up more but all 3 are athletic enough, especially Sissoko n Wijnaldum running from deep.

Sissoko was our best starting player out of the entire midfield and Cisse, not exactly a keenly contested prize but wanting him dropped based on the performance in the last game in comparison to others is strange He was terrible and cannot pass a ball. He runs in straight lines and is in no way a right winger. Cisse even though he has a knack of getting goals harms our game in every other way. We need a forward to hold up and bring others into play. He really doesn't and barely troubles defenders at times when they need to be rattled. Perez and Mitrovic will do that

Well yeah, Colback and Anita can't start together unless absolutely necessary but Perez needs to play up front when Mitro is out. Cisse is so anonymous and can't hold up play. We know at very least Perez is a pain for defenders. De Jong should maybe start then with Wijnaldum dropping

One is new, the other has had a fair few of those games and is definitely not a winger