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It’s not clear to me that Howe got it wrong today like. We should’ve scored at least 2 goals and the ones we let in were soft. Man City are amazing. The miss from Wilson was terrible, and maybe Isak scores it. But apart from that you can see logic behind Howe’s decisions. I hope to see ASM, Isak and Targett play in the next couple. But this was a game where you can understand going for grafters.

Also, if you believe you can get an elite CM in the summer you might not want to buy a lesser one in Jan.

Think he looks bright, but having every player running into the middle of the defence just feels bad to me. I’m sure Targett will come back in now, so we’ll see what happens. I equally think you could let Trippier play inside like City’s fullbacks and play Gordon on the right.

Are the two linked though? Don’t you think they would have signed a CM if they could have found the right deal?

He still does some alright stuff in general, but obviously that miss was horrific. We really need to build our whole team around Isak and Bruno, may as well get started now.

Longstaff gets off easy mind, he’s shocking.

I thought we were better than expected today really, albeit with lots of mistakes. I think I’ll only be really comfortable once we have two more CMs and we can actually control possession. Games like today are always going to be some degree of painful.

Yep, we should really be talking about how the plan worked and we got a good result.

I would just play Gordon right and ASM left.

Pretty much.

Love all the lads, just get behind them and try to enjoy the rest of the season. This is an almost impossible game to win, see what they can do. Let’s have it.

Schar’s injured and the attackers are picked to run and defend. Think that basically explains the lineup. Isak is a question but I guess he just thinks getting the best out of him requires a change in approach that we can’t introduce in this particular game.

Not sure introducing Targett against the best team in the league would be that much better.

Assume Schar’s not fit.

I will say, he’s picked lots of legs to put pressure on City and the back and in midfield.

I hope so. He might know he’s on his last chance as well, so hopefully put himself about.

Think he’s playing for a draw or narrow defeat and saving people for the next two TBH.

Not impressed with no ASM or Isak, but I guess we’ll just be grafting and defending. Very average team, theirs is scary.

You’re on the bench.

Howe said no injuries in his press conference, IIRC.

There’s never going to be a clear point where you can say he has or hasn’t been ‘too’ loyal or who is ‘underperforming’ to what extent. Given we have had almost no options in our squad until very recently, I find it a bit harsh.

Don’t think so, otherwise a PL fan could basically never referee a PL game ever.

Quite like it, walk and a bit of brunch, watch the match, still have half a day free after.

Not sure, we’ll see. He’s a very clever player and amplifies people around him. Not saying he would lead the line for anyone but I can see people being interested. That said, I don’t know why he hasn’t been playing more for Liverpool anyway.

Class player, will be interesting to see where he goes.