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Felix does look very good. Really enjoyable play-style to watch.

I think it's worth noting that a lot of the actions you see taken by our players are their own specific instructions now, rather than them just doing what they think works as with under the likes of Bruce. For example, Schar being more inclined to carry the ball forward than Botman is because Botman has recovery pace that Schar doesn't, so it's less of a risk. Schar will often be more aggressive going in for the challenge, with Botman ready to sweep in behind, likely for the same reason. I also read somewhere that our defenders are explicitly told to use the keeper less (I think it might have been an article on Botman), but look for a line breaking pass as frequently as possible. Line breaking passes are high risk, high reward, so it stands to reason that some high risk passes are going to fail. The important thing is that the upside of the higher risk passes far outweighs the downside that the occasional failed pass brings.

I thought Willock was very sloppy, but I didn't notice anything particularly sloppy with Longstaff today.

I honestly can't see ASM working out. I think he's trying but the way we play is just not natural to him. I also think he looks utterly shot of confidence and the crowd getting on his back every time something doesn't come off for him can't be helping. He's reminds me of Miggy was before he came into form; he's playing like he doesn't believe what he's doing is going to work

Given how frequently he's being subbed, I wouldn't be surprised if we're managing his fitness for fear of burnout. He's crucial for us at the moment.

He's made a handful of very loose passes in the half amongst the positive stuff he's done, to be fair. He needs to cut it out because it's not a particularly isolated occurrence.

It's solely what I use their tweets for.

They've both played well too, but Bruno has completely controlled the centre of the park.

Bruno has looked our best player by a mile today IMO.

Willock has seen an awful lot of the ball and has been very wasteful with it. It's becoming a bit of a common theme of late. Salisu man marking Almiron is some level of acknowledgement that he's currently our only dependable attacking threat.

Miggy's form has dropped off? Can't say I agree with that, he's still contributing to play heavily and is playing with a lot of quality. Even without the goals he's still one of our top performers right now. We really could do with a couple of creatively minded signings, though.

We should definitely be looking to keep him. It's not only his end product that's improved this season, practically everything he does is of a significantly higher quality now to the point that he's one of our best and most important players right now. He's playing with a lot of quality even when he's not directly creating/scoring.

Yep, you could see he was trying to big up the achievement, but he just went about it in a rubbish way.

I largely think the term world class is a load of subjective nonesence tbh, however Tripper is certainly accomplished and successful enough to be considered world class, IMO.

Trippier did have to tell Murphy to make the run at the end, mind

The old man had a passing interest in football and liked Keegan's team as I was really starting to get into football. As the ever impressionable good son that I was I followed suit, and here I am nearly 30 years later...

The only reason the penalty taker stutters their run etc. is to confuse the keeper and give themselves an even greater advantage. If you're going to penalise a keeper when the odds are already massively stacked against them, then I'd suggest you need to look at penalty etiquette as a whole.

For some reason I read that in the same way that Ron Simmons would react to something surprising

I was hoping there might have been some gifs floating about already and stumbled on this. Looks like he has previous

I really thought West Ham would eventually switch it on a bit and turn out to be one of our closer rivals this season, but they aren't showing signs of doing anything significant and already have an awful lot of points to catch-up on.

I'm not so sure it's so cut and dry but I agree that having better quality players near him will likely result in improved output. That said; one of Almiron's key strengths is his ability to give and go, quickly running into space. Trippier and Bruno work to his strengths and their quality is key, but Almiron's intelligence in his movement is just as vital. It's always been one of his strengths, and he actually did try and do previously under Bruce, but a lack of anything resembling a game-plan meant it largely went unnoticed and unused. We now have a manager that can actually exploit players strengths and we're seeing a huge benefit from it.

I don't think there's any lack of effort; I'm just not sure our style of play comes natural to him.

I'm sure the level of pressure for both scenario's was comparable.

I wish Anderson would shut up obsessing over the opposition giving the ball away and calling it out every single time