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I was thinking of Tino, Hall and Gordon.

I’m not clear exactly when the time ticked over to 95. Was it before our counter started?

Ironically those England players (and Joelinton) got their caps because Howe had them playing so well.

Surely it’s clear and obvious if the video shows a foul and the referee missed it. That’s a massive error that changes a game. This is the part of the VAR guidelines that make no sense. If it’s a penalty, give a penalty. That’s the only way it should work.

Aye, that one annoyed me a lot

The first goal was impossible to save, the ball went over the opposite shoulder he expected because of the deflection. Commentary said great finish but there was a lot of luck involved.

VAR are losing their shit over when to intervene and when not IMO. There’s absolutely no justification for not acting on the VVD hit on Gordon. Are they saying the referee saw it and decided it was fine? Or maybe they thought it was a yellow? Same with the penalty, are they saying it’s not a major error that the referee missed a foul in the box? How can that be the case? Makes no sense.

Yeah, he talks a lot about how bad his lifestyle used to be when he was a younger player.

Fair enough, haven't seen any replay.

What do we think about Tino? He's not quite the player I expected TBH, I thought he would be much more attacking but it seems defending is by far the strongest part of his game. I know he's played a lot with Longstaff inside him and a random ahead, TBF.

Not on any highlights but I thought Liverpool had potential pen too, someone stepped on the back of Diaz's foot?

I don't think so. He could've saved it but also understandable it went in. It's a point-blank shot struck low and pretty hard.

I think the new RW needs to be primarily a left footer who will cut inside, if we keep Tino at RB. I know fans still won't stop whinging about inverted wingers but it makes the most sense IMO.

I wouldn't say he got lucky with the goal, it wasn't in the corner but the move was unexpected and the shot was early and well hit.

It's really disappointing if he's let his personal problems ruin his football to this extent TBH. I know all footballers are human but it seems a very extreme situation. Maybe he just doesn't have the desire anymore.

Only criticism I'd have tonight is that the flags got put away very early, before the players had taken their training tops off and properly ran out. I know you can't really control that.

What would that even mean?

FWIW when he gave the ball away for their goal, Joelinton got it and gave it away a second time. Didn't really clock that at the time because I was so angry with Murphy

I know I'm a broken record on this, but most questions about the Howe era have very simple explanations.

FWIW he managed the game well except for the pen, the VVD barge and the end. I realise those are quite important.

I like to know how many games in a season have absolutely no additional time on the end. I'm guessing almost none.

I know this is smugness, but we never needed to freak out so much about him. Same as Hall, he was too good to end up a bad signing. He's still less than half way through his first season with us, effectively.

He's overall not a PL-quality player IMO, maybe for a promoted team they could accept his mistakes. I feel the same about Longstaff. But you can't dislike either of them because they play to their max and love the club. But ideally they shouldn't be playing.

He'd have another 50 appearances if Steve Bruce wasn't a football dinosaur.

He wasn't just sitting in 6 either, they were rotating quite well. His little foot-to-foot and shot was class. I think he's most intelligent player in the squad, great reading of the game and awareness of space.