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No need to think about him IMO, only thing he needs is to left on the pitch for longer.

I would have thought a reseller website would be a better bet than the ballot. More expensive but the ticket is guaranteed. Guess you could do both and risk the £37 first, then go reseller if you don't succeed.

It’s not even a questionable patch really, it’s just incredibly hard fixtures all coming at the same time. The fixture list is massively underrated in football.

Great post. 2 was what I noticed as well, we were moving the ball side to side but Liverpool were very disciplined in preventing the quick pass to the winger. So often it had to go back and over to the other side, where the same thing would happen.

I thought they needed Mount to add movement and link their attacks, it’s different to the problem they have further back. I thought Casemiro had basically solved the DM and game control issues himself, but maybe not.

Think some credit has to go to Liverpool for stopping those quick balls to the wingers. We were moving it side to side but the final pass, particularly to Gordon, was often blocked off.

Inhibited? Yeah you’re right, that’s why I mentioned yesterday about the mental leap we might need to make to put the so-called big teams away. Natural given where we are in our development, but still a pain.

Come on lads. Who would you drop to play Hojberg FFS?

That’s what I was hoping for yesterday.

Think it’s twice we’ve taken Isak off and then created opportunities that would be better for him than Wilson. It definitely shouldn’t be automatic to bring Wilson on at 60-odd minutes.

I didn’t notice this at all

Was loud in the main Gallowgate as well, until their second goal anyway.

Well, that’s not really how dissent works. Of course you’d never get a yellow for complaining or stopping and attack if every decision went perfectly in your favour. Know what you’re saying though.

From what, to what?

I would never boo but I had to leave on the final whistle, was too shell shocked to stay and applaud.

From inside.

I wonder whether we’re trying to prove we don’t need it in response to these new rules.

TBF we were controlling the game. Although I did know that we needed another goal.

I was preparing to come on here and say “I’m not sure why we didn’t manage to get another goal, but we deserved a couple and at least we ground out the win”.

Yeah fair point, maybe Liverpool and Man City are another step up. Who knows.

I think there might be a mental step we need to take at some point to really believe that we can put the ‘big teams’ away. We’ll get there, hopefully Howe can identify some things to help our mentality (and maybe his as well).

Absolutely not

He was class today. Mistake to take him off because he retains possession and moves the ball as well as threatening in attack.

Think the best we can do with that kind of stuff is not dignify it with an answer.

I think it’s fair to wonder if there’s another step we need to take to get to the truly elite level. I wouldn’t necessarily put it down to Howe alone, probably a combination of all the staff and players. But even if that is true it’s very understandable at this point in our progression. So far Howe has shown a remarkable ability to learn and improve.